Support Vault Kubernetes authentication
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- Dominant language
- Go
- Stars
- 277
- Forks
- 164
- Avg merge
- 2d 3h
- Merged PRs (30d)
- 61
Description
Feature request
Provide support for authentication with the serviceaccount token against vault.
Use case
Currently, either a SPIRE configuration or a VAULT_TOKEN must be provided to use the vault backend for signing.
Providing support for kubernetes based vault authentication would simplify this a lot.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by tracing the Vault backend's existing SPIRE and VAULT_TOKEN authentication paths. Determine where Kubernetes service-account token authentication should fit, then verify that the backend can authenticate with that token while preserving the existing options.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- go, kubernetes
- Domain
- authentication, security
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100