README.md

Auth Special Interest Group

Covers improvements to Kubernetes authorization, authentication, and cluster security policy.

"All I want is a secure system where it's easy to do anything I want. Is that so much to ask?" - xkcd

The charter defines the scope and governance of the Auth Special Interest Group.

Meetings

• Regular SIG Meeting: Wednesdays at 11:00 PT (Pacific Time) (biweekly). Convert to your timezone.
  • Meeting notes and Agenda.
  • Meeting recordings.
• Secrets Store CSI Meeting: Thursdays at 8:00 PT (Pacific Time) (biweekly). Convert to your timezone.
  • Meeting notes and Agenda.
  • Meeting recordings.

Leadership

Chairs

The Chairs of the SIG run operations and processes governing the SIG.

• Mo Khan (@enj), VMware
• Mike Danese (@mikedanese), Google
• Tim Allclair (@tallclair), Apple

Technical Leads

The Technical Leads of the SIG establish new subprojects, decommission existing subprojects, and resolve cross-subproject technical issues and decisions.

• David Eads (@deads2k), Red Hat
• Jordan Liggitt (@liggitt), Google
• Mike Danese (@mikedanese), Google

Emeritus Leads

• Eric Chiang (@ericchiang)
• Eric Tune (@erictune)

Contact

• Slack: #sig-auth
• Mailing list
• Open Community Issues/PRs
• GitHub Teams:
  • @kubernetes/sig-auth-api-reviews - API Changes and Reviews
  • @kubernetes/sig-auth-bugs - Bug Triage and Troubleshooting
  • @kubernetes/sig-auth-feature-requests - Feature Requests
  • @kubernetes/sig-auth-misc - General Discussion
  • @kubernetes/sig-auth-pr-reviews - PR Reviews
  • @kubernetes/sig-auth-proposals - Design Proposals
  • @kubernetes/sig-auth-test-failures - Test Failures and Triage
• Steering Committee Liaison: Christoph Blecker (@cblecker)

Subprojects

The following subprojects are owned by sig-auth:

audit-logging

Kubernetes API support for audit logging.

• Owners:
  • kubernetes/kubernetes/staging/src/k8s.io/api/auditregistration
  • kubernetes/kubernetes/staging/src/k8s.io/apiserver/pkg/apis/audit
  • kubernetes/kubernetes/staging/src/k8s.io/apiserver/pkg/audit
  • kubernetes/kubernetes/staging/src/k8s.io/apiserver/plugin/pkg/audit

authenticators

Kubernetes API support for authentication.

• Owners:
  • kubernetes/kubernetes/pkg/apis/authentication
  • kubernetes/kubernetes/pkg/kubeapiserver/authenticator
  • kubernetes/kubernetes/pkg/registry/authentication
  • kubernetes/kubernetes/plugin/pkg/auth/authenticator
  • kubernetes/kubernetes/staging/src/k8s.io/api/authentication
  • kubernetes/kubernetes/staging/src/k8s.io/apiserver/pkg/authentication
  • kubernetes/kubernetes/staging/src/k8s.io/apiserver/plugin/pkg/authenticator
  • kubernetes/kubernetes/staging/src/k8s.io/client-go/kubernetes/typed/authentication
  • kubernetes/kubernetes/staging/src/k8s.io/client-go/listers/authentication
  • kubernetes/kubernetes/staging/src/k8s.io/client-go/pkg/apis/clientauthentication
  • kubernetes/kubernetes/staging/src/k8s.io/client-go/plugin/pkg/client/auth
  • kubernetes/kubernetes/staging/src/k8s.io/client-go/tools/auth

authorizers

Kubernetes API support for authorization.

• Owners:
  • kubernetes/kubernetes/pkg/apis/authorization
  • kubernetes/kubernetes/pkg/apis/rbac
  • kubernetes/kubernetes/pkg/kubeapiserver/authorizer
  • kubernetes/kubernetes/pkg/kubectl/cmd/auth
  • kubernetes/kubernetes/pkg/registry/authorization
  • kubernetes/kubernetes/pkg/registry/rbac
  • kubernetes/kubernetes/plugin/pkg/auth/authorizer
  • kubernetes/kubernetes/staging/src/k8s.io/api/authorization
  • kubernetes/kubernetes/staging/src/k8s.io/api/rbac
  • kubernetes/kubernetes/staging/src/k8s.io/apiserver/pkg/authorization
  • kubernetes/kubernetes/staging/src/k8s.io/apiserver/plugin/pkg/authorizer
  • kubernetes/kubernetes/staging/src/k8s.io/client-go/kubernetes/typed/authorization
  • kubernetes/kubernetes/staging/src/k8s.io/client-go/kubernetes/typed/rbac
  • kubernetes/kubernetes/staging/src/k8s.io/client-go/listers/authorization
  • kubernetes/kubernetes/staging/src/k8s.io/client-go/listers/rbac

certificates

Certificates APIs and client infrastructure to support PKI.

• Owners:
  • kubernetes/kubernetes/pkg/apis/certificates
  • kubernetes/kubernetes/pkg/controller/certificates
  • kubernetes/kubernetes/pkg/registry/certificates
  • kubernetes/kubernetes/staging/src/k8s.io/apiserver/pkg/authentication/request/x509
  • kubernetes/kubernetes/staging/src/k8s.io/client-go/util/cert
  • kubernetes/kubernetes/staging/src/k8s.io/client-go/util/certificate

encryption-at-rest

API storage support for storing data encrypted at rest in etcd.

• Owners:
  • kubernetes/kubernetes/staging/src/k8s.io/apiserver/pkg/server/options/encryptionconfig
  • kubernetes/kubernetes/staging/src/k8s.io/apiserver/pkg/storage/value/encrypt

hierarchical-namespace-controller

Controller to manage hierarchical namespaces

• Owners:
  • kubernetes-sigs/hierarchical-namespaces

multi-tenancy

Proposals and prototypes for introducing tenant model to enable multi-tenant cluster

• Owners:
  • kubernetes-sigs/multi-tenancy

node-identity-and-isolation

Node identity management (co-owned with sig-lifecycle), and authorization restrictions for isolating workloads on separate nodes (co-owned with sig-node).

• Owners:
  • kubernetes/kubernetes/pkg/controller/certificates/approver
  • kubernetes/kubernetes/pkg/kubelet/certificate
  • kubernetes/kubernetes/plugin/pkg/admission/noderestriction
  • kubernetes/kubernetes/plugin/pkg/auth/authorizer/node

policy-management

API validation and policies enforced during admission, such as PodSecurityPolicy. Excludes run-time policies like NetworkPolicy and Seccomp.

• Owners:
  • kubernetes-sigs/wg-policy-prototypes
  • kubernetes/kubernetes/pkg/apis/imagepolicy
  • kubernetes/kubernetes/pkg/apis/policy
  • kubernetes/kubernetes/pkg/registry/policy
  • kubernetes/kubernetes/pkg/security/podsecuritypolicy
  • kubernetes/kubernetes/plugin/pkg/admission/imagepolicy
  • kubernetes/kubernetes/plugin/pkg/admission/security/podsecuritypolicy
  • kubernetes/kubernetes/staging/src/k8s.io/api/imagepolicy
  • kubernetes/kubernetes/staging/src/k8s.io/api/policy

secrets-store-csi-driver

Integrates secrets stores with Kubernetes via a CSI volume.

• Owners:
  • kubernetes-sigs/secrets-store-csi-driver
• Contact:
  • Slack: #csi-secrets-store
  • Mailing List

service-accounts

Infrastructure implementing Kubernetes service account based workload identity.

• Owners:
  • kubernetes/kubernetes/pkg/controller/serviceaccount
  • kubernetes/kubernetes/pkg/kubelet/token
  • kubernetes/kubernetes/pkg/serviceaccount
  • kubernetes/kubernetes/plugin/pkg/admission/serviceaccount