Enabling Cloud Native Security with OAuth2 and Multi-Tenant UAA
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UAA, as a core component of Cloud Foundry, is responsible for authenticating and authorizing requests between platform users (e.g. those that push apps) and platform components (e.g. the cloud controller). But when it came to doing auth for the apps you push and the end users of those apps, using the built-in UAA wasn't the best fit, and you could easily end up shooting yourself in the foot. Until now. This talk will guide you though UAA's new multi-tenancy features, and show you how to use the built-in UAA to create arbitrary authorization scenarios for your products without the danger of affecting the security of the core platform. With this level of freedom, you'll have complete and fine-grained control over who is allowed to access your product's components, and how those components are allowed to interact with one another.
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Enabling Cloud Native Security with OAuth2 and Multi-Tenant UAA
- 1. Enabling Cloud Native Security with Multi-Tenant UAA William Tran, Pivotal
- 2. Agenda • Introductions • Why use UAA for Cloud Native Applications • Advantages of Multi-tenant UAA • How to get started
- 4. About Me • Spring user since version 2.0 (2007) • Joined Pivotal October 2013 • Based in Toronto, Canada • Working on Pivotal CF Services – Mobile Services API Gateway – Pivotal SSO – Spring Cloud Services • Committer on UAA
- 5. About UAA • User Account and Authorization server • Secures all CF components • OAuth2 and OpenID Connect • SCIM API for user management in internal user database • Integration with SAML 2.0 and LDAP • OAuth2 client registration API
- 6. About OAuth2 • Delegated Authorization • 4 Actors – The Authorization Server – User – Client – Resource Server • Clients act on behalf of users – Authorization Code Grant – Resource Owner Password Grant – Implicit Grant • Clients act on their own – Client Credentials Grant
- 7. OAuth2 In Cloudfoundry • Apps Manager (PWS or PCF)
- 8. OAuth2 In Cloudfoundry • Apps Manager – Go to apps.cfdomain in the browser UAA (login.) Apps Manager (apps.) Cloud Controller (api.) Browser
- 9. OAuth2 In Cloudfoundry • Apps Manager – Apps manager redirects you to UAA UAA (login.) Apps Manager (apps.) Cloud Controller (api.) Browser Not logged in!
- 10. OAuth2 In Cloudfoundry • Apps Manager – Apps manager redirects you to UAA UAA (login.) Apps Manager (apps.) Cloud Controller (api.) Browser
- 11. OAuth2 In Cloudfoundry • Apps Manager – UAA asks for username and password UAA (login.) Apps Manager (apps.) Cloud Controller (api.) Browser Please log in
- 12. OAuth2 In Cloudfoundry • Apps Manager – User logs in UAA (login.) Apps Manager (apps.) Cloud Controller (api.) Browser Here is the username and password
- 13. OAuth2 In Cloudfoundry • Apps Manager – UAA redirects back to Apps Manager with a one time code UAA (login.) Apps Manager (apps.) Cloud Controller (api.) Browser Here is an authorization code
- 14. OAuth2 In Cloudfoundry • Apps Manager – UAA redirects back to Apps Manager with a one time code UAA (login.) Apps Manager (apps.) Cloud Controller (api.) Browser Here is an authorization code
- 15. OAuth2 In Cloudfoundry • Apps Manager – Apps Manager gives the code back to UAA UAA (login.) Apps Manager (apps.) Cloud Controller (api.) Browser Here is the same authorization code
- 16. OAuth2 In Cloudfoundry • Apps Manager – UAA exchanges the code for an access token UAA (login.) Apps Manager (apps.) Cloud Controller (api.) Browser The code is the same, here is a token
- 17. OAuth2 In Cloudfoundry • Apps Manager – Apps manager uses the access token to access the CC API UAA (login.) Apps Manager (apps.) Cloud Controller (api.) Browser /v2/apps -H “Authorization: bearer eyJhbGci…”
- 18. OAuth2 In Cloudfoundry • Apps Manager – Apps manager renders the page UAA (login.) Apps Manager (apps.) Cloud Controller (api.) Browser Here is the the pretty screen, finally!
- 19. OAuth2 In Cloudfoundry • Apps Manager – Authorization Code Grant – Typical of web applications – Apps manager webapp is the client
- 20. OAuth2 In Cloudfoundry • CF CLI cf target api.cfdomain cf login cf apps
- 21. OAuth2 In Cloudfoundry • CF CLI – cf login UAA (login.) Cloud Controller (api.) CF CLI Here is the username and password
- 22. OAuth2 In Cloudfoundry • CF CLI – cf login UAA (login.) Cloud Controller (api.) CF CLI Here is a token
- 23. OAuth2 In Cloudfoundry • CF CLI – cf login UAA (login.) Cloud Controller (api.) CF CLI /v2/apps -H “Authorization: bearer eyJhbGci…”
- 24. OAuth2 In Cloudfoundry • CF CLI – Resource Owner Password Grant – Typical of CLI, Mobile Apps, non-browser user apps – CF CLI is the client
- 25. OAuth2 In Cloudfoundry • Autoscaling Service (PCF) my-appAutoscaler I’m getting very busy!
- 26. OAuth2 In Cloudfoundry • Autoscaling Service (PCF) my-appAutoscaler Don’t worry, I’ll create more instances
- 27. OAuth2 In Cloudfoundry • Autoscaling Service (PCF) my-appAutoscaler my-app
- 28. OAuth2 In Cloudfoundry • Autoscaling Service (PCF) my-appAutoscaler my-app my-app
- 29. OAuth2 In Cloudfoundry • Autoscaling Service (PCF) UAA (login.) Cloud Controller (api.) Autoscaler Time to check status!
- 30. OAuth2 In Cloudfoundry • Autoscaling Service (PCF) UAA (login.) Cloud Controller (api.) Autoscaler Here is my client_id and client_secret
- 31. OAuth2 In Cloudfoundry • Autoscaling Service (PCF) UAA (login.) Cloud Controller (api.) Autoscaler Here is a token
- 32. OAuth2 In Cloudfoundry • Autoscaling Service (PCF) UAA (login.) Cloud Controller (api.) Autoscaler /v2/apps/1234/stats -H “Authorization: bearer eyJhbGci…”
- 33. OAuth2 In Cloudfoundry • Autoscaling Service (PCF) UAA (login.) Cloud Controller (api.) Autoscaler CPU at 80%!
- 34. OAuth2 In Cloudfoundry • Autoscaling Service (PCF) UAA (login.) Cloud Controller (api.) Autoscaler PUT /v2/apps/1234 -H “Authorization: bearer eyJhbGci…” -d ‘{"instances":2}’
- 35. OAuth2 In Cloudfoundry • Autoscaling Service (PCF) UAA (login.) Cloud Controller (api.) Autoscaler OK, creating more instances
- 36. OAuth2 In Cloudfoundry • Autoscaling Service (PCF) – Client Credentials Grant – Typical of apps that act without a user’s involvement – Autoscaling Service is the client
- 37. OAuth2 In Cloudfoundry • The CF platform has many more examples of using OAuth2 • UAA is the key – Manages users – Manages clients – Grants and verifies access tokens
- 38. UAA is the perfect fit for Cloud Native Security*
- 39. UAA for Cloud Native Security • *In CF there’s more to security than just UAA – Network security / security groups – Cross container traffic / trusted workloads – No End to end TLS • UAA is for application-level security • It works for us, so it’ll work for you*
- 40. So you want to secure your apps • Example – You want to host your API application on Cloud Foundry my-cloudfoundry.cn
- 41. So you want to secure your apps • Example – You want to host your API application on Cloud Foundry my-cloudfoundry.cn my-api
- 42. So you want to secure your apps • Example – It will be accessed by a web app hosted on CF my-cloudfoundry.cn my-api my- webapp browser
- 43. So you want to secure your apps • Example – It will be accessed through a mobile app as well my-cloudfoundry.cn my-api my- webapp browser Mobile app
- 44. So you want to secure your apps • Perfect! Use UAA my-cloudfoundry.cn my-api my- webapp browser Mobile app UAA
- 45. So you want to secure your apps • Perfect! Use UAA – Client for web app authcode grant
- 46. So you want to secure your apps • Perfect! Use UAA – Client for web app authcode grant – Client for mobile app password grant
- 47. So you want to secure your apps • Perfect! Use UAA – Client for web app authcode grant – Client for mobile app password grant – API app token verification JWT signature
- 48. So you want to secure your apps • Perfect! Use UAA – Client for web app authcode grant – Client for mobile app password grant – API app token verification JWT signature • API app can validate token on its own
- 49. Who are your end users? • SpaceDevelopers, OrgManagers – Platform users, no problem
- 50. Who are your end users? • SpaceDevelopers, OrgManagers – Platform users, no problem • That sales guy – Not a platform user, PROBLEM
- 51. Who are your end users? jsmith jsmyth cf set-space-role jsmyth the-org the-space SpaceDeveloper oops
- 52. Who are your end users? jsmith jsmyth My app is too slow
- 53. Who are your end users? jsmith jsmyth cf login –u jsmyth ... cf scale sales-api –m 10G I can fix that!
- 54. The Principle of Least Privilege • You (or the application, process, module, etc) should have the minimum level of access required for performing their job
- 55. The Principle of Least Privilege • You (or the application, process, module, etc) should have the minimum level of access required for performing their job • Salesguy should not have been added to the platform UAA
- 56. Solutions? • Create your own authorization server • Deploy your own UAA
- 57. So you want to secure your products • Example – You want to build a product that’s packaged as a CF service my-cloudfoundry.cn my-service
- 58. So you want to secure your products • Example – When apps bind to the service… my-cloudfoundry.cn my-service my-app cf bind-service
- 59. So you want to secure your products • Example – Create an oauth client my-cloudfoundry.cn my-service my-app UAA POST /oauth/client
- 60. So you want to secure your products • Example – Create an oauth client my-cloudfoundry.cn my-service my-app UAA 201: Created
- 61. my-cloudfoundry.cn So you want to secure your products • Example – So that the app to service communication can be secured by OAuth2 client credentials grant my-service my-app UAA The client_id and client_secret are in VCAP_SERVICES
- 62. my-cloudfoundry.cn So you want to secure your products • Example – So that the app to service communication can be secured by OAuth2 client credentials grant my-service my-app UAA GET /api/foo -H ‘Authorization: bearer eyJhbGci…’
- 63. So you want to secure your products • Perfect! Use UAA – App to app communication client credentials – Token verification JWT signature – Every app gets their own credentials • Super secure right?
- 64. How do you create clients in UAA? • POST /oauth/clients – Token must have scope clients.write • Creating clients with authorities – Eg the app gets a token with my-service.read scope – Requires clients.write and uaa.admin • So give your service admin credentials?
- 65. Admin-Level Credentials my-service • client_id: my-service • client_secret: 123xyz • authorities: clients.write, uaa.admin • authorized_grant_types: client_credentials
- 66. Admin-Level Credentials my-service • CLIENT_ID: my-service • CLIENT_SECRET: 123xyz
- 67. Admin-Level Credentials my-service • CLIENT_ID: my-service • CLIENT_SECRET: 123xyz I got root, yo.
- 68. Admin-Level Credentials my-service • CLIENT_ID: my-service • CLIENT_SECRET: 123xyz This job sucks. cf env my-service
- 69. Admin-Level Credentials $ uaac target uaa.my-cloudfoundry.cn $ uaac token client get my-service -s 123xyz $ uaac client add my-admin-client –authorities cloud_controller.admin
- 70. Admin-Level Credentials I got root yo. Lets have some fun.
- 71. The Principle of Least Privilege • You (or the application, process, module, etc) should have the minimum level of access required for performing their job
- 72. The Principle of Least Privilege • You (or the application, process, module, etc) should have the minimum level of access required for performing their job • Giving admin level credentials to applications is dangerous
- 73. Solutions? • Create your own authorization server • Deploy your own UAA
- 74. How do you deploy your own UAA? • cf push cloudfoundry-identity-uaa.war • Yaml config • Bootstrap users • Provision DB • Do the above manually, or as part of a Bosh deployment
- 75. Running your own UAA • Pros: – Principle of least privilege – You can fork it • Cons: – Overhead – Manual upgrades – “yak shaving” a bosh release
- 76. Running your own UAA • Pros: – Principle of least privilege • Systems secured by your UAA cannot affect systems secured by the platform UAA
- 77. Running your own UAA • Pros: – Principle of least privilege Your UAA
- 78. Running your own UAA • Pros: – Principle of least privilege Your UAA Platform UAA
- 79. Running your own UAA • Pros: – Principle of least privilege Your UAA Platform UAA Impossible!
- 80. Running your own UAA • Pros: – Principle of least privilege – You can fork it • Cons: – Overhead – Manual upgrades – “yak shaving” a bosh release
- 81. Multitenant UAA
- 82. What is Multitenant UAA • CF v208 + • The built-in UAA with subdomains • Subdomain maps to Identity Zone • Total segregation between Identity Zones • API for creating Identity Zones • Existing API stays the same
- 83. Zone administrators • UAA users with god-like powers in an identity zone • Requires scope zone.[zone-id].admin • Instead of targeting zone via subdomain, use X-Identity-Zone-Id header – POST uaa.domain.com/oauth/clients create a client in the UAA zone – POST uaa.domain.com/oauth/clients -H “X- Identity-Zone-Id:12345” create a client in the Identity Zone with id 12345
- 84. Multitenant UAA • Pros: – Principle of least privilege – API calls for creating a new tenant (aka Identity Zone) – Zone administrators instead of bootstrap users • Cons: – Overhead – Manual upgrades – “yak shaving” a bosh release – You can’t fork it
- 85. Let’s Use It
- 86. Multitenant UAA with UAAC • Setup can be cumbersome – When acting as zone admin with X-Identity-Zone- Id header, you can only uaac curl • Once you have an admin client in the zone, uaac works great • Future enhancements – Creating initial users / clients when the Identity Zone is created – -z global option to target a zone via header
- 87. Summary • UAA is great for securing Cloud Native Applications • Always use the principle of least privilege – Don’t add non-platform users to the platform – Don’t give out platform admin abilities to other apps • You can deploy your own UAA – but multitenant UAA is an API call away • Tooling needs to catch up – But once you get that admin client set up, its easy
- 88. Stay In Touch
- 89. Stay in touch • Me – Twitter: @fivetenwill – github.com/william-tran – [email protected] • CF Identity PM – Sree Tummidi: [email protected] • CF Identity Team – Issues: github.com/cloudfoundry/uaa – Discussion: lists.cloudfoundry.org
Editor's Notes
- #2: Hello everyone, thank you for coming to my talk, I’m very excited to be here.