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Version: v1.8

Systems Integration

KubeVela application natively supports impersonation even without the Authentication flag enabled. That means when the Authentication flag is disabled, you can manually set the identity to impersonate in the application's annotation fields. For example, the following guide will give an example on how to manually set the application to impersonate as a ServiceAccount.

Example

Let's assume that we have two namespaces:

  • demo-service: for managing application
  • demo-service-prod: to deploy components for the production environment

In this example, we will make the Application use a specific ServiceAccount instead of the controller ServiceAccount.

Creating ServiceAccount

Create deployer ServiceAccount in demo-service namespace.

apiVersion: v1
kind: ServiceAccount
metadata:
name: deployer
namespace: demo-service

Creating Role/RoleBinding

Allow deployer ServiceAccount in demo-service to manage Deployments in demo-service-prod by creating Role/RoleBinding.

Notice that KubeVela application requires the identity to impersonate to have the privileges for writing ControllerRevision. If you use --optimize-disable-component-revision in the KubeVela controller, you can ignore this requirement.

apiVersion: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1
kind: Role
metadata:
name: deployments:admin
namespace: demo-service-prod
rules:
- apiGroups: ["apps"]
resources: ["deployments"]
verbs: ["*"]
---
apiVersion: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1
kind: RoleBinding
metadata:
name: deployments:admin
namespace: demo-service-prod
roleRef:
apiGroup: rbac.authorization.k8s.io
kind: Role
name: deployments:admin
subjects:
- kind: ServiceAccount
name: deployer
namespace: demo-service

Deploying an Application with ServiceAccount

apiVersion: core.oam.dev/v1beta1
kind: Application
metadata:
name: multi-env-demo-with-service-account
namespace: demo-service
annotations:
app.oam.dev/service-account-name: deployer # the name of the ServiceAccount we created
spec:
components:
- name: nginx-server
type: webservice
properties:
image: nginx:1.21
port: 80
policies:
- name: env
type: env-binding
properties:
created: false
envs:
- name: prod
patch:
components:
- name: nginx-server
type: webservice
properties:
image: nginx:1.20
port: 80
placement:
namespaceSelector:
name: demo-service-prod
workflow:
steps:
- name: deploy-prod-server
type: deploy2env
properties:
policy: env
env: prod

After deploying the Application, you can check the Application is deployed successfully.

$ vela status multi-env-demo-with-service-account -n demo-service     
About:

Name: multi-env-demo-with-service-account
Namespace: demo-service
Created at: 2022-05-31 17:58:14 +0800 CST
Status: running

Workflow:

mode: StepByStep
finished: true
Suspend: false
Terminated: false
Steps
- id:ut3bxuisoy
name:deploy-prod-server
type:deploy2env
phase:succeeded
message:

Services:

- Name: nginx-server
Cluster: local Namespace: demo-service-prod
Type: webservice
Healthy Ready:1/1
No trait applied

If you set non-authorized ServiceAccount to the annotation, you can find an error message like below in the Application status.

Dispatch: Found 1 errors. [(cannot get object: deployments.apps "nginx-server" is forbidden: User "system:serviceaccount:demo-service:non-authorized-account" cannot get resource "deployments" in API group "apps" in the namespace "demo-service-prod")]

Impersonate as User/Groups

If you would like to let the application to impersonate as specific user and group, you can set the annotation app.oam.dev/username and app.oam.dev/group in the application respectively.