Configure Auth for Spinnaker Using Okta SAML

Configure Okta for authentication and authorization in Spinnaker.

Configure a Spinnaker application in Okta

Select Applications -> Applications from the top menu. Applications Screen

Click the green “Add Application” button. AddApplicationButton

Click the green “Create New App” button. CreateNewApp

In the dialog “Create a New Application Integration”, select the following values:

  • select Platform -> Web
  • select Sign on method -> SAML 2.0

Then hit the green “Create” button.

CreateNewIntegration

On “Create SAML Integration” page, enter an app name and hit the green “Next” button. CreateNewIntegration

On the “Configure SAML page”, configure the following settings:

  • Single sign on URL -> Enter the URL for your Gate service, with the path /saml/SSO. For example, https://oktaspinnaker.spinnaker.armory.io:8084/saml/SSO

  • Audience URI (SP Entity ID) -> Enter a unique entity id. For example, io.armory.spinnaker.oktatest

  • Name ID format -> For example, “EmailAddress”

  • Application username -> For example, “Email”

In the GROUP ATTRIBUTE STATEMENTS section:

  • Name = memberOf, Name format = Unspecified, Filter = Regex: .*

Then, hit the green “Next” button SamlSettings

On the Create SAML Integration Feedback page, select the “I’m an Okta customer adding an internal app” button, then hit the green “Finish” button. Feedback

This takes you to the “Sign On” tab of the application you just created.

You can navigate back to this page by going to applications -> applicationName -> Sign On tab. Click the button “View Setup Instructions”. This will display the page with configuration information necessary to configure Spinnaker. ViewSetupInstructions

Under the “Optional” section near the bottom, copy the contents of IDP metadata and save to file. For example, under /Users/armory/.hal/saml/metadata.xml. IDPmetadata

Configure Spinnaker to use Okta

1: Create a SAML keystore file

Generate a keystore and key with some password:

KEYSTORE_PATH=/Users/armory/.hal/saml/saml.jks
keytool -genkey -v -keystore $KEYSTORE_PATH -alias saml -keyalg RSA -keysize 2048 -validity 10000

2: Configure Spinnaker to use SAML

Note: The value you enter for issuerId must match the value entered in “Audience URI (SP Entity ID)” when configuring the app in Okta

Add the following snippet to SpinnakerService manifest. This references secrets stored in a Kubernetes secrets in the same namespace as Spinnaker, but secrets can be stored in any of the supported secret engines:

apiVersion: spinnaker.armory.io/v1alpha2
kind: SpinnakerService
metadata:
  name: spinnaker
spec:
  spinnakerConfig:  
    config:
      security:
        authn:
          saml:
            enabled: true
            keyStore: encryptedFile:k8s!n:spin-secrets!k:saml.jks
            keyStoreAliasName: saml
            keyStorePassword: encrypted:k8s!n:spin-secrets!k:keystorePassword
            metadataLocal: encryptedFile:k8s!n:spin-secrets!k:metadata.xml
            issuerId: io.armory.spinnaker.oktatest # The identity of the Spinnaker application registered with the SAML provider.
            serviceAddress: https://<gate-URL>     # The address of the Gate server that will be accesible by the SAML identity provider. This should be the full URL, including port, e.g. https://gate.org.com:8084/. If deployed behind a load balancer, this would be the laod balancer's address.

Create the kubernetes secret holding the spinnaker secrets:

kubectl -n <spinnaker namespace> create secret generic spin-secrets \
    --from-file=saml.jks \
    --from-file=metadata.xml \
    --from-literal=keystorePassword=<password-entered-in-step-1>

Apply the changes of SpinnakerService manifest:

kubectl -n <spinnaker namespace> apply -f <SpinnakerService manifest>


KEYSTORE_PATH=/Users/armory/.hal/saml/saml.jks
KEYSTORE_PASSWORD=<password-entered-in-step-1>
METADATA_PATH=/Users/armory/.hal/saml/metadata.xml
SERVICE_ADDR_URL=https://<gate-URL>
ISSUER_ID=io.armory.spinnaker.oktatest

hal config security authn saml edit \
    --keystore $KEYSTORE_PATH \
    --keystore-alias saml \
    --keystore-password $KEYSTORE_PASSWORD \
    --metadata $METADATA_PATH \
    --issuer-id $ISSUER_ID \
    --service-address-url $SERVICE_ADDR_URL

hal config security authn saml enable
hal deploy apply

Troubleshooting

Make sure the dns are correctly pointing to the load balancers of gate-URL and deck-URL.

Verify that the gate-URL is the one entered in Okta with :8084/saml/SSO appended to it.

Validate that the service-address-url in your configuration is the gate-URL.


Last modified April 12, 2021: (8405118)