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Support Workload Identity for Azure Vault #813

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This pull request adds support for using Azure Workload Identity when decrypting secrets in Kustomization

It updates azidentity dependencies to v1.3.0-beta.4 and uses defaultCredentials from environment variables when no secret is set when decrypting with Azure KMS

Closes #795

Part of: fluxcd/flux2#3041

@somtochiama somtochiama changed the title Update azidentity v1.3.0-beta.3 to support Workload Identity Update azidentity v1.3.0-beta.4 to support Workload Identity Mar 29, 2023
creds := key.token
if key.token == nil {
// if there is no token credential set, use the DefaultAzureCredential
newCreds, err := azidentity.NewDefaultAzureCredential(nil)
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We still get the attempt to shell out to the CLI when key.token isn't set and we use the server from sops
https://github.com/mozilla/sops/blob/master/azkv/keysource.go#L142

By using the NewDefaultAzureCredential, we attempt all the other methods(including Workload Identity) before trying to shell out

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Given that there are no CLIs in the controller container, this only confuses people. Locally if you run the tests on a dev machine, it will find az, but it will always fail in-cluster.

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hiddeco commented Mar 30, 2023

Am not sure what is going on in the last commit, why does the Decrypt do an on-demand request for default credentials instead of the Server being configured properly?

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Am not sure what is going on in the last commit, why does the Decrypt do an on-demand request for default credentials instead of the Server being configured properly?

So we can use credentials from the environment variable if there was nothing configured in the secret. This is basically the approach we use by returning the default server (it checks the environment variables and the CLI last), but in this case, we are using the function provided by Azure which also checks for workload identity environment variables.

With this change, users don't have to set a client id in the secret to use Workload Identity(this is also the same way GCP Workload Identity works)

@somtochiama somtochiama changed the title Update azidentity v1.3.0-beta.4 to support Workload Identity Support Azure Workload Identity Mar 30, 2023
@stefanprodan stefanprodan changed the title Support Azure Workload Identity Support Workload Identity for Azure Vault Mar 31, 2023
@stefanprodan stefanprodan added enhancement New feature or request area/sops SOPS related issues and pull requests labels Mar 31, 2023
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@somtochiama can you please move the docs to the v1 API spec? Thanks

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LGTM

Thanks @somtochiama 🏅

@somtochiama somtochiama force-pushed the azidentity branch 2 times, most recently from 5a1b325 to 20d5c3d Compare April 3, 2023 10:15
Signed-off-by: Somtochi Onyekwere <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Hidde Beydals <[email protected]>
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Add support for Azure Workload Identity to secrets decryption
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