James Wen
108ce37949
* Allow for Kubernetes cluster authentication via google auth
- For the kubernetes and kubernetes-backend plugins
- The kubernetes (front-end) plugin uses the googleAuthApi and goes
through oauth flow to fetch a Google auth token for the current user
and pass that in a request to the kubernetes-backend plugin, which
uses this token as the service account token (and hence as the
authentication token for making K8s API requests).
- Related to https://github.com/spotify/backstage/issues/2552
* Use KubernetesAuthProvider and KubernetesAuthTranslator interfaces for K8s auth
- Implementations of KubernetesAuthProvider decorate the bodies of requests (for
Kubernetes resources) sent from the kubernetes plugin (frontend) to the
kubernetes-backend plugin (backend) with whatever information is
needed for K8s authentication
- Implementations of KubernetesAuthTranslator take the contents of these request
bodies sent from the kubernetes plugin (frontend) to the kubernetes-backend plugin
(backend) and use specific values in the bodies to properly set up tokens for K8s auth
- Start with KubernetesAuthProvider + KubernetesAuthTranslator
implementations for 'serviceAccount' and 'google' as auth providers
- Implementation of what was proposed at https://github.com/spotify/backstage/issues/2552#issuecomment-702545382
- Load in and prepare KubernetesAuthProvider implementations at plugin
startup time via KubernetesAuthProviders API (that essentially stores
or wraps these KubernetesAuthProvider instances)
- Related to https://github.com/spotify/backstage/issues/2552
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