community/sig-auth

Auth Special Interest Group

Covers improvements to Kubernetes authorization, authentication, and cluster security policy.

"All I want is a secure system where it's easy to do anything I want. Is that so much to ask?" - xkcd

The charter defines the scope and governance of the Auth Special Interest Group.

Meetings

• Regular SIG Meeting: Wednesdays at 11:00 PT (Pacific Time) (biweekly). Convert to your timezone.
  • Meeting notes and Agenda.
  • Meeting recordings.

Leadership

Chairs

The Chairs of the SIG run operations and processes governing the SIG.

• Mike Danese (@mikedanese), Google
• Mo Khan (@enj), Red Hat
• Tim Allclair (@tallclair), Google

Emeritus Leads

• Eric Chiang (@ericchiang), Red Hat
• Eric Tune (@erictune), Google
• David Eads (@deads2k), Red Hat
• Jordan Liggitt (@liggitt), Google

Contact

• Slack
• Mailing list
• Open Community Issues/PRs

Subprojects

The following subprojects are owned by sig-auth:

• audit-logging
  • Description: Kubernetes API support for audit logging.
  • Owners:
    • https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/master/staging/src/k8s.io/api/auditregistration/OWNERS
    • https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/master/staging/src/k8s.io/apiserver/pkg/apis/audit/OWNERS
    • https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/master/staging/src/k8s.io/apiserver/pkg/audit/OWNERS
    • https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/master/staging/src/k8s.io/apiserver/plugin/pkg/audit/OWNERS
• authenticators
  • Description: Kubernetes API support for authentication.
  • Owners:
    • https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/master/pkg/apis/authentication/OWNERS
    • https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/master/pkg/kubeapiserver/authenticator/OWNERS
    • https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/master/pkg/registry/authentication/OWNERS
    • https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/master/plugin/pkg/auth/authenticator/OWNERS
    • https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/master/staging/src/k8s.io/api/authentication/OWNERS
    • https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/master/staging/src/k8s.io/apiserver/pkg/authentication/OWNERS
    • https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/master/staging/src/k8s.io/apiserver/plugin/pkg/authenticator/OWNERS
    • https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/master/staging/src/k8s.io/client-go/kubernetes/typed/authentication/OWNERS
    • https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/master/staging/src/k8s.io/client-go/listers/authentication/OWNERS
    • https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/master/staging/src/k8s.io/client-go/pkg/apis/clientauthentication/OWNERS
    • https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/master/staging/src/k8s.io/client-go/plugin/pkg/client/auth/OWNERS
    • https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/master/staging/src/k8s.io/client-go/tools/auth/OWNERS
• authorizers
  • Description: Kubernetes API support for authorization.
  • Owners:
    • https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/master/pkg/apis/authorization/OWNERS
    • https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/master/pkg/apis/rbac/OWNERS
    • https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/master/pkg/kubeapiserver/authorizer/OWNERS
    • https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/master/pkg/kubectl/cmd/auth/OWNERS
    • https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/master/pkg/registry/authorization/OWNERS
    • https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/master/pkg/registry/rbac/OWNERS
    • https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/master/plugin/pkg/auth/authorizer/OWNERS
    • https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/master/staging/src/k8s.io/api/authorization/OWNERS
    • https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/master/staging/src/k8s.io/api/rbac/OWNERS
    • https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/master/staging/src/k8s.io/apiserver/pkg/authorization/OWNERS
    • https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/master/staging/src/k8s.io/apiserver/plugin/pkg/authorizer/OWNERS
    • https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/master/staging/src/k8s.io/client-go/kubernetes/typed/authorization/OWNERS
    • https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/master/staging/src/k8s.io/client-go/kubernetes/typed/rbac/OWNERS
    • https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/master/staging/src/k8s.io/client-go/listers/authorization/OWNERS
    • https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/master/staging/src/k8s.io/client-go/listers/rbac/OWNERS
• certificates
  • Description: Certificates APIs and client infrastructure to support PKI.
  • Owners:
    • https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/master/pkg/apis/certificates/OWNERS
    • https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/master/pkg/controller/certificates/OWNERS
    • https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/master/pkg/registry/certificates/OWNERS
    • https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/master/staging/src/k8s.io/apiserver/pkg/authentication/request/x509/OWNERS
    • https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/master/staging/src/k8s.io/client-go/util/cert/OWNERS
    • https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/master/staging/src/k8s.io/client-go/util/certificate/OWNERS
• encryption-at-rest
  • Description: API storage support for storing data encrypted at rest in etcd.
  • Owners:
    • https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/master/staging/src/k8s.io/apiserver/pkg/server/options/encryptionconfig/OWNERS
    • https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/master/staging/src/k8s.io/apiserver/pkg/storage/value/encrypt/OWNERS
• node-identity-and-isolation
  • Description: Node identity management (co-owned with sig-lifecycle), and authorization restrictions for isolating workloads on separate nodes (co-owned with sig-node).
  • Owners:
    • https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/master/pkg/controller/certificates/approver/OWNERS
    • https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/master/pkg/kubelet/certificate/OWNERS
    • https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/master/plugin/pkg/admission/noderestriction/OWNERS
    • https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/master/plugin/pkg/auth/authorizer/node/OWNERS
• policy-management
  • Description: API validation and policies enforced during admission, such as PodSecurityPolicy. Excludes run-time policies like NetworkPolicy and Seccomp.
  • Owners:
    • https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/master/staging/src/k8s.io/api/imagepolicy/OWNERS
    • https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/master/staging/src/k8s.io/api/policy/OWNERS
    • https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/master/pkg/security/podsecuritypolicy/OWNERS
    • https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/master/pkg/registry/policy/OWNERS
    • https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/master/pkg/apis/imagepolicy/OWNERS
    • https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/master/pkg/apis/policy/OWNERS
    • https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/master/plugin/pkg/admission/imagepolicy/OWNERS
    • https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/master/plugin/pkg/admission/security/podsecuritypolicy/OWNERS
• service-accounts
  • Description: Infrastructure implementing Kubernetes service account based workload identity.
  • Owners:
    • https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/master/pkg/controller/serviceaccount/OWNERS
    • https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/master/pkg/kubelet/token/OWNERS
    • https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/master/pkg/serviceaccount/OWNERS
    • https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/master/plugin/pkg/admission/serviceaccount/OWNERS

GitHub Teams

The below teams can be mentioned on issues and PRs in order to get attention from the right people. Note that the links to display team membership will only work if you are a member of the org.

Team Name	Details	Description
@kubernetes/sig-auth-api-reviews	link	API Changes and Reviews
@kubernetes/sig-auth-bugs	link	Bug Triage and Troubleshooting
@kubernetes/sig-auth-feature-requests	link	Feature Requests
@kubernetes/sig-auth-misc	link	General Discussion
@kubernetes/sig-auth-pr-reviews	link	PR Reviews
@kubernetes/sig-auth-proposals	link	Design Proposals
@kubernetes/sig-auth-test-failures	link	Test Failures and Triage