* Remove JSON schema validation
Removing JSON schema validation from all resource unmarshalers.
--- what JSON schema gets us
Looking at the JSON schema spec and our usage, here are the supposed benefits:
- type validation - make sure incoming data uses the right types for the right fields
- required fields - make sure that mandatory fields are set
- defaulting - set defaults for fields
- documentation - schema definition for our API objects
Note that it does _not_ do:
- fail on unknown fields in data
- fail on a required field with an empty value
--- what replaces it
Based on the above, it may seem like JSON schema provides value.
But it's not the case, let's break it down one by one:
- type validation - unmarshaling JSON into a typed Go struct does this
- required fields - only checks that the field was provided, doesn't actually check that a value is set (e.g. `"name": ""` will pass the `required` check)
- so it's pretty useless for any real validation
- and we already have a separate place for proper validation - `CheckAndSetDefaults` methods
- defaulting - done in `CheckAndSetDefaults` methods
- `Version` is the only annoying field, had to add it in a bunch of objects
- documentation - protobuf definitions are the source of truth for our API schema
--- the benefits
- performance - schema validation does a few rounds of `json.Marshal/Unmarshal` in addition to actual validation; now we simply skip all that
- maintenance - no need to keep protobuf and JSON schema definitions in sync anymore
- creating new API objects - one error-prone step removed
- (future) fewer dependencies - we can _almost_ remove the Go libraries for schema validation (one transient dependency keeping them around)
* Remove services.SkipValidation
No more JSON schema validation so this option is a noop.
Implements RFD #7https://github.com/gravitational/teleport/blob/master/rfd/0007-rbac-oss.md
OSS users can use roles. Some FedRamp related role options
are limited to enterprise.
All users are migrated to a new role "ossuser".
This role is a limited access role downgrading all users
from OSS role "admin".
All trusted clusters are mapped to "ossuser" as well.
Github connector maps teams to generated roles.
For transition period, format `tctl users add alice` works
alongside with `tctl users add alice --roles=admin`, but prints
a warning.
This commit fixes#3369, refs #3374
It adds support for kuberenetes_users section in roles,
allowing Teleport proxy to impersonate user identities.
It also extends variable interpolation syntax by adding
suffix and prefix to variables and function `email.local`:
Example:
```yaml
kind: role
version: v3
metadata:
name: admin
spec:
allow:
# extract email local part from the email claim
logins: ['{{email.local(external.email)}}']
# impersonate a kubernetes user with IAM prefix
kubernetes_users: ['IAM#{{external.email}}']
# the deny section uses the identical format as the 'allow' section.
# the deny rules always override allow rules.
deny: {}
```
Some notes on email.local behavior:
* This is the only function supported in the template variables for now
* In case if the email.local will encounter invalid email address,
it will interpolate to empty value, will be removed from resulting
output.
Changes in impersonation behavior:
* By default, if no kubernetes_users is set, which is a majority of cases,
user will impersonate themselves, which is the backwards-compatible behavior.
* As long as at least one `kubernetes_users` is set, the forwarder will start
limiting the list of users allowed by the client to impersonate.
* If the users' role set does not include actual user name, it will be rejected,
otherwise there will be no way to exclude the user from the list).
* If the `kuberentes_users` role set includes only one user
(quite frequently that's the real intent), teleport will default to it,
otherwise it will refuse to select.
This will enable the use case when `kubernetes_users` has just one field to
link the user identity with the IAM role, for example `IAM#{{external.email}}`
* Previous versions of the forwarding proxy were denying all external
impersonation headers, this commit allows 'Impesrsonate-User' and
'Impersonate-Group' header values that are allowed by role set.
* Previous versions of the forwarding proxy ignored 'Deny' section of the roles
when applied to impersonation, this commit fixes that - roles with deny
kubernetes_users and kubernetes_groups section will not allow
impersonation of those users and groups.
This commit expands the usage of the caching layer
for auth server API:
* Introduces in-memory cache that is used to serve all
Auth server API requests. This is done to achieve scalability
on 10K+ node clusters, where each node fetches certificate authorities,
roles, users and join tokens. It is not possible to scale
DynamoDB backend or other backends on 10K reads per seconds
on a single shard or partition. The solution is to introduce
an in-memory cache of the backend state that is always used
for reads.
* In-memory cache has been expanded to support all resources
required by the auth server.
* Experimental `tctl top` command has been introduced to display
common single node metrics.
Replace SQLite Memory Backend with BTree
SQLite in memory backend was suffering from
high tail latencies under load (up to 8 seconds
in 99.9%-ile on load configurations).
This commit replaces the SQLite memory caching
backend with in-memory BTree backend that
brought down tail latencies to 2 seconds (99.9%-ile)
and brought overall performance improvement.
This commit introduces several key changes to
Teleport backend and API infrastructure
in order to achieve scalability improvements
on 10K+ node deployments.
Events and plain keyspace
--------------------------
New backend interface supports events,
pagination and range queries
and moves away from buckets to
plain keyspace, what better aligns
with DynamoDB and Etcd featuring similar
interfaces.
All backend implementations are
exposing Events API, allowing
multiple subscribers to consume the same
event stream and avoid polling database.
Replacing BoltDB, Dir with SQLite
-------------------------------
BoltDB backend does not support
having two processes access the database at the
same time. This prevented Teleport
using BoltDB backend to be live reloaded.
SQLite supports reads/writes by multiple
processes and makes Dir backend obsolete
as SQLite is more efficient on larger collections,
supports transactions and can detect data
corruption.
Teleport automatically migrates data from
Bolt and Dir backends into SQLite.
GRPC API and protobuf resources
-------------------------------
GRPC API has been introduced for
the auth server. The auth server now serves both GRPC
and JSON-HTTP API on the same TLS socket and uses
the same client certificate authentication.
All future API methods should use GRPC and HTTP-JSON
API is considered obsolete.
In addition to that some resources like
Server and CertificateAuthority are now
generated from protobuf service specifications in
a way that is fully backward compatible with
original JSON spec and schema, so the same resource
can be encoded and decoded from JSON, YAML
and protobuf.
All models should be refactored
into new proto specification over time.
Streaming presence service
--------------------------
In order to cut bandwidth, nodes
are sending full updates only when changes
to labels or spec have occured, otherwise
new light-weight GRPC keep alive updates are sent
over to the presence service, reducing
bandwidth usage on multi-node deployments.
In addition to that nodes are no longer polling
auth server for certificate authority rotation
updates, instead they subscribe to event updates
to detect updates as soon as they happen.
This is a new API, so the errors are inevitable,
that's why polling is still done, but
on a way slower rate.
Brian Joerger