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OIDC Identity Provider

OpenID Connect is an interoperable authentication protocol based on the OAuth 2.0 family of specifications. It uses straightforward REST/JSON message flows with a design goal of “making simple things simple and complicated things possible”. It’s uniquely easy for developers to integrate, compared to any preceding Identity protocol, such as Keycloak, Okta, Dex, Auth0, Gluu, Casdoor and many more.

Prerequisites

You need to deploy a Kubernetes cluster and install KubeSphere in the cluster. For details, see Installing on Linux and Installing on Kubernetes.

Procedure

Log in to KubeSphere as admin, move the cursor to in the lower-right corner, click kubectl, and run the following command to edit ks-installer of the CRD ClusterConfiguration:
```
kubectl -n kubesphere-system edit cc ks-installer
```

Add the following fields under spec.authentication.jwtSecret.

Example of using Google Identity Platform:

spec:
  authentication:
    jwtSecret: ''
    authenticateRateLimiterMaxTries: 10
    authenticateRateLimiterDuration: 10m0s
    oauthOptions:
      accessTokenMaxAge: 1h
      accessTokenInactivityTimeout: 30m
      identityProviders:
      - name: google
        type: OIDCIdentityProvider
        mappingMethod: auto
        provider:
          clientID: '********'
          clientSecret: '********'
          issuer: https://accounts.google.com
          redirectURL:  'https://ks-console/oauth/redirect/google'

See description of parameters as below:

Parameter	Description
clientID	The OAuth2 client ID.
clientSecret	The OAuth2 client secret.
redirectURL	The redirected URL to ks-console in the following format: `https://<Domain name>/oauth/redirect/<Provider name>`. The `<Provider name>` in the URL corresponds to the value of `oauthOptions:identityProviders:name`.
issuer	Defines how Clients dynamically discover information about OpenID Providers.
preferredUsernameKey	Configurable key which contains the preferred username claims. This parameter is optional.
emailKey	Configurable key which contains the email claims. This parameter is optional.
getUserInfo	GetUserInfo uses the userinfo endpoint to get additional claims for the token. This is especially useful where upstreams return "thin" ID tokens. This parameter is optional.
insecureSkipVerify	Used to turn off TLS certificate verification.

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