Main Changes:
• method signature updates everywhere to account for passing around enterprise meta.
• populate the EnterpriseAuthorizerContext for all ACL related authorizations.
• ACL resource listings now operate like the catalog or kv listings in that the returned entries are filtered down to what the token is allowed to see. With Namespaces its no longer all or nothing.
• Modified the acl.Policy parsing to abstract away basic decoding so that enterprise can do it slightly differently. Also updated method signatures so that when parsing a policy it can take extra ent metadata to use during rules validation and policy creation.
Secondary Changes:
• Moved protobuf encoding functions out of the agentpb package to eliminate circular dependencies.
• Added custom JSON unmarshalers for a few ACL resource types (to support snake case and to get rid of mapstructure)
• AuthMethod validator cache is now an interface as these will be cached per-namespace for Consul Enterprise.
• Added checks for policy/role link existence at the RPC API so we don’t push the request through raft to have it fail internally.
• Forward ACL token delete request to the primary datacenter when the secondary DC doesn’t have the token.
• Added a bunch of ACL test helpers for inserting ACL resource test data.
* Add HTTP endpoints for config entry management
* Finish implementing decoding in the HTTP Config entry apply endpoint
* Add CAS operation to the config entry apply endpoint
Also use this for the bootstrapping and move the config entry decoding function into the structs package.
* First pass at the API client for the config entries
* Fixup some of the ConfigEntry APIs
Return a singular response object instead of a list for the ConfigEntry.Get RPC. This gets plumbed through the HTTP API as well.
Dont return QueryMeta in the JSON response for the config entry listing HTTP API. Instead just return a list of config entries.
* Minor API client fixes
* Attempt at some ConfigEntry api client tests
These don’t currently work due to weak typing in JSON
* Get some of the api client tests passing
* Implement reflectwalk magic to correct JSON encoding a ProxyConfigEntry
Also added a test for the HTTP endpoint that exposes the problem. However, since the test doesn’t actually do the JSON encode/decode its still failing.
* Move MapWalk magic into a binary marshaller instead of JSON.
* Add a MapWalk test
* Get rid of unused func
* Get rid of unused imports
* Fixup some tests now that the decoding from msgpack coerces things into json compat types
* Stub out most of the central config cli
Fully implement the config read command.
* Basic config delete command implementation
* Implement config write command
* Implement config list subcommand
Not entirely sure about the output here. Its basically the read output indented with a line specifying the kind/name of each type which is also duplicated in the indented output.
* Update command usage
* Update some help usage formatting
* Add the connect enable helper cli command
* Update list command output
* Rename the config entry API client methods.
* Use renamed apis
* Implement config write tests
Stub the others with the noTabs tests.
* Change list output format
Now just simply output 1 line per named config
* Add config read tests
* Add invalid args write test.
* Add config delete tests
* Add config list tests
* Add connect enable tests
* Update some CLI commands to use CAS ops
This also modifies the HTTP API for a write op to return a boolean indicating whether the value was written or not.
* Fix up the HTTP API CAS tests as I realized they weren’t testing what they should.
* Update config entry rpc tests to properly test CAS
* Fix up a few more tests
* Fix some tests that using ConfigEntries.Apply
* Update config_write_test.go
* Get rid of unused import
Roles are named and can express the same bundle of permissions that can
currently be assigned to a Token (lists of Policies and Service
Identities). The difference with a Role is that it not itself a bearer
token, but just another entity that can be tied to a Token.
This lets an operator potentially curate a set of smaller reusable
Policies and compose them together into reusable Roles, rather than
always exploding that same list of Policies on any Token that needs
similar permissions.
This also refactors the acl replication code to be semi-generic to avoid
3x copypasta.
* Store leaf cert indexes in raft and use for the ModifyIndex on the returned certs
This ensures that future certificate signings will have a strictly greater ModifyIndex than any previous certs signed.
* Add leader token upgrade test and fix various ACL enablement bugs
* Update the leader ACL initialization tests.
* Add a StateStore ACL tests for ACLTokenSet and ACLTokenGetBy* functions
* Advertise the agents acl support status with the agent/self endpoint.
* Make batch token upsert CAS’able to prevent consistency issues with token auto-upgrade
* Finish up the ACL state store token tests
* Finish the ACL state store unit tests
Also rename some things to make them more consistent.
* Do as much ACL replication testing as I can.
This PR is almost a complete rewrite of the ACL system within Consul. It brings the features more in line with other HashiCorp products. Obviously there is quite a bit left to do here but most of it is related docs, testing and finishing the last few commands in the CLI. I will update the PR description and check off the todos as I finish them over the next few days/week.
Description
At a high level this PR is mainly to split ACL tokens from Policies and to split the concepts of Authorization from Identities. A lot of this PR is mostly just to support CRUD operations on ACLTokens and ACLPolicies. These in and of themselves are not particularly interesting. The bigger conceptual changes are in how tokens get resolved, how backwards compatibility is handled and the separation of policy from identity which could lead the way to allowing for alternative identity providers.
On the surface and with a new cluster the ACL system will look very similar to that of Nomads. Both have tokens and policies. Both have local tokens. The ACL management APIs for both are very similar. I even ripped off Nomad's ACL bootstrap resetting procedure. There are a few key differences though.
Nomad requires token and policy replication where Consul only requires policy replication with token replication being opt-in. In Consul local tokens only work with token replication being enabled though.
All policies in Nomad are globally applicable. In Consul all policies are stored and replicated globally but can be scoped to a subset of the datacenters. This allows for more granular access management.
Unlike Nomad, Consul has legacy baggage in the form of the original ACL system. The ramifications of this are:
A server running the new system must still support other clients using the legacy system.
A client running the new system must be able to use the legacy RPCs when the servers in its datacenter are running the legacy system.
The primary ACL DC's servers running in legacy mode needs to be a gate that keeps everything else in the entire multi-DC cluster running in legacy mode.
So not only does this PR implement the new ACL system but has a legacy mode built in for when the cluster isn't ready for new ACLs. Also detecting that new ACLs can be used is automatic and requires no configuration on the part of administrators. This process is detailed more in the "Transitioning from Legacy to New ACL Mode" section below.
