# External OAUTH Authentication - NGINX Ingress Controller

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# External OAUTH Authentication

### Overview

The `auth-url` and `auth-signin` annotations allow you to use an external authentication provider to protect your Ingress resources.

Important

This annotation requires `nginx-ingress-controller v0.9.0` or greater.)

### Key Detail

This functionality is enabled by deploying multiple Ingress objects for a single host. One Ingress object has no special annotations and handles authentication.

Other Ingress objects can then be annotated in such a way that require the user to authenticate against the first Ingress's endpoint, and can redirect `401`s to the same endpoint.

Sample:

    ...
    metadata:
      name: application
      annotations:
        nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/auth-url: "https://$host/oauth2/auth"
        nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/auth-signin: "https://$host/oauth2/start?rd=$escaped_request_uri"
    ...

### Example: OAuth2 Proxy + Kubernetes-Dashboard

This example will show you how to deploy `oauth2_proxy` into a Kubernetes cluster and use it to protect the Kubernetes Dashboard using github as oAuth2 provider

#### Prepare

1. Install the kubernetes dashboard

    kubectl create -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/kops/master/addons/kubernetes-dashboard/v1.10.1.yaml

1. Create a custom Github OAuth application

- Homepage URL is the FQDN in the Ingress rule, like `https://foo.bar.com`
- Authorization callback URL is the same as the base FQDN plus `/oauth2`, like `https://foo.bar.com/oauth2`

1. Configure oauth2_proxy values in the file `oauth2-proxy.yaml` with the values:

2. OAUTH2_PROXY_CLIENT_ID with the github `<Client ID>`

3. OAUTH2_PROXY_CLIENT_SECRET with the github `<Client Secret>`

4. OAUTH2_PROXY_COOKIE_SECRET with value of `python -c 'import os,base64; print(base64.b64encode(os.urandom(16)).decode("ascii"))'`

5. Customize the contents of the file `dashboard-ingress.yaml`:

Replace `__INGRESS_HOST__` with a valid FQDN and `__INGRESS_SECRET__` with a Secret with a valid SSL certificate.

1. Deploy the oauth2 proxy and the ingress rules running:

    $ kubectl create -f oauth2-proxy.yaml,dashboard-ingress.yaml

Test the oauth integration accessing the configured URL, like `https://foo.bar.com`