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Server plugin: NodeAttestor "k8s_psat"

Must be used in conjunction with the agent-side k8s_psat plugin

The k8s_psat plugin attests nodes running inside of Kubernetes. The server validates the signed projected service account token provided by the agent. This validation is performed using Kubernetes Token Review API. In addition to validation, this API provides other useful information (namespace, service account name and pod name) that SPIRE server uses to build selectors. Kubernetes API server is also queried to get extra data like node UID, which is used to generate a SPIFFE ID with the form:

spiffe://<trust domain>/spire/agent/k8s_psat/<cluster>/<node UID>

The server does not need to be running in Kubernetes in order to perform node attestation. In fact, the plugin can be configured to attest nodes running in multiple clusters.

The main configuration accepts the following values:

Configuration Description Default
clusters A map of clusters, keyed by an arbitrary ID, that are authorized for attestation.

Each cluster in the main configuration requires the following configuration:

Configuration Description Default
service_account_allow_list A list of service account names, qualified by namespace (for example, "default:blog" or "production:web") to allow for node attestation. Attestation will be rejected for tokens bound to service accounts that aren't in the allow list.
audience Audience for token validation. If it is set to an empty array ([]), Kubernetes API server audience is used ["spire-server"]
kube_config_file Path to a k8s configuration file for API Server authentication. A kubernetes configuration file must be specified if SPIRE server runs outside of the k8s cluster. If empty, SPIRE server is assumed to be running inside the cluster and in-cluster configuration is used. ""
allowed_node_label_keys Node label keys considered for selectors
allowed_pod_label_keys Pod label keys considered for selectors

A sample configuration for SPIRE server running inside of a Kubernetes cluster:

    NodeAttestor "k8s_psat" {
        plugin_data {
            clusters = {
                "MyCluster" = {
                    service_account_allow_list = ["production:spire-agent"]
                }
        }
    }

A sample configuration for SPIRE server running outside of a Kubernetes cluster:

    NodeAttestor "k8s_psat" {
        plugin_data {
            clusters = {
                "MyCluster" = {
                    service_account_allow_list = ["production:spire-agent"]
                    kube_config_file = "path/to/kubeconfig/file"
                }
        }
    }

This plugin generates the following selectors:

Selector Example Description
k8s_psat:cluster k8s_psat:cluster:MyCluster Name of the cluster (from the plugin config) used to verify the token signature
k8s_psat:agent_ns k8s_psat:agent_ns:production Namespace that the agent is running under
k8s_psat:agent_sa k8s_psat:agent_sa:spire-agent Service Account the agent is running under
k8s_psat:agent_pod_name k8s_psat:agent_pod_name:spire-agent-v5wgr Name of the pod in which the agent is running
k8s_psat:agent_pod_uid k8s_psat:agent_pod_uid:79261129-6b60-11e9-9054-0800277ac80f UID of the pod in which the agent is running
k8s_psat:agent_pod_label k8s_psat:agent_pod_label:key:value Pod Label
k8s_psat:agent_node_ip k8s_psat:agent_node_ip:172.16.10.1 IP address of the node in which the agent is running
k8s_psat:agent_node_name k8s_psat:agent_node_name:minikube Name of the node in which the agent is running
k8s_psat:agent_node_uid k8s_psat:agent_node_uid:5dbb7b21-65fe-11e9-b1b0-0800277ac80f UID of the node in which the agent is running
k8s_psat:agent_node_label k8s_psat:agent_node_label:key:value Node Label

The node and pod selectors are only provided for label keys in the allowed_node_label_keys and allowed_pod_label_keys configurables.

A full example of this attestor is provided in the SPIRE examples repository