ContainerImage.Pinniped/deploy/supervisor/README.md

# Deploying the Pinniped Supervisor

## What is the Pinniped Supervisor?

The Pinniped Supervisor app is a component of the Pinniped OIDC and Cluster Federation solutions.
It can be deployed when those features are needed.

## Installing the Latest Version with Default Options

```bash
kubectl apply -f https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/pinniped/releases/latest/download/install-supervisor.yaml
```

## Installing an Older Version with Default Options

Choose your preferred [release](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/pinniped/releases) version number
and use it to replace the version number in the URL below.

```bash
# Replace v0.3.0 with your preferred version in the URL below
kubectl apply -f https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/pinniped/releases/download/v0.3.0/install-supervisor.yaml
```

## Installing with Custom Options

Creating your own deployment YAML file requires `ytt` from [Carvel](https://carvel.dev/) to template the YAML files
in the `deploy/supervisor` directory.
Either [install `ytt`](https://get-ytt.io/) or use the [container image from Dockerhub](https://hub.docker.com/r/k14s/image/tags).

1. `git clone` this repo and `git checkout` the release version tag of the release that you would like to deploy.
1. The configuration options are in [deploy/supervisor/values.yml](values.yaml).
   Fill in the values in that file, or override those values using additional `ytt` command-line options in
   the command below. Use the release version tag as the `image_tag` value.
2. In a terminal, cd to this `deploy/supervisor` directory
3. To generate the final YAML files, run `ytt --file .`
4. Deploy the generated YAML using your preferred deployment tool, such as `kubectl` or [`kapp`](https://get-kapp.io/).
   For example: `ytt --file . | kapp deploy --yes --app pinniped-supervisor --diff-changes --file -`

## Configuring After Installing

### Exposing the Supervisor App as a Service

The Supervisor app's endpoints should be exposed as HTTPS endpoints with proper TLS certificates signed by a
Certificate Authority which will be trusted by your user's web browsers. Because there are
many ways to expose TLS services from a Kubernetes cluster, the Supervisor app leaves this up to the user.
The most common ways are:

1. Define an [`Ingress` resource](https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/services-networking/ingress/) with TLS certificates.
   In this case, the ingress will terminate TLS. Typically, the ingress will then talk plain HTTP to its backend,
   which would be a NodePort or LoadBalancer Service in front of the HTTP port 80 of the Supervisor pods.

   The required configuration of the Ingress is specific to your cluster's Ingress Controller, so please refer to the
   documentation from your Kubernetes provider. If you are using a cluster from a cloud provider, then you'll probably
   want to start with that provider's documentation. For example, if your cluster is a Google GKE cluster, refer to
   the [GKE documentation for Ingress](https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/docs/concepts/ingress).
   Otherwise, the Kubernetes documentation provides a list of popular
   [Ingress Controllers](https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/services-networking/ingress-controllers/), including
   [Contour](https://projectcontour.io/) and many others.

1. Or, define a [TCP LoadBalancer Service](https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/services-networking/service/#loadbalancer)
   which is a layer 4 load balancer and does not terminate TLS. In this case, the Supervisor app will need to be
   configured with TLS certificates and will terminate the TLS connection itself (see the section about
   OIDCProviderConfig below). The LoadBalancer Service should be configured to use the HTTPS port 443 of
   the Supervisor pods as its `targetPort`.

   *Warning:* Do not expose the Supervisor's port 80 to the public. It would not be secure for the OIDC protocol
   to use HTTP, because the user's secret OIDC tokens would be transmitted across the network without encryption.

1. Or, expose the Supervisor app using a Kubernetes service mesh technology, e.g. [Istio](https://istio.io/).
   Please see the documentation for your service mesh. Generally, the setup would be similar to the description
   above for defining an ingress, expect the service mesh would probably provide both the ingress with TLS termination
   and the service.

For either of the first two options mentioned above, if you installed using `ytt` then you can use
the related `service_*` options from [deploy/supervisor/values.yml](values.yaml) to create a Service.
If you installed using `install-supervisor.yaml` then you can create
the Service separately after installing the Supervisor app. There is no `Ingress` included in the `ytt` templates,
so if you choose to use an Ingress then you'll need to create that separately after installing the Supervisor app.

#### Example: Using a LoadBalancer Service

This is an example of creating a LoadBalancer Service to expose port 443 of the Supervisor app outside the cluster.

```yaml
apiVersion: v1
kind: Service
metadata:
  name: pinniped-supervisor-loadbalancer
  # Assuming that this is the namespace where the supervisor was installed. This is the default in install-supervisor.yaml.
  namespace: pinniped-supervisor
spec:
  type: LoadBalancer
  selector:
    # Assuming that this is how the supervisor pods are labeled. This is the default in install-supervisor.yaml.
    app: pinniped-supervisor
  ports:
  - protocol: TCP
    port: 443
    targetPort: 443
```

#### Example: Using a NodePort Service

A NodePort Service exposes the app as a port on the nodes of the cluster.

This is convenient for use with kind clusters, because kind can
[expose node ports as localhost ports on the host machine](https://kind.sigs.k8s.io/docs/user/configuration/#extra-port-mappings)
without requiring an Ingress, although
[kind also supports several Ingress Controllers](https://kind.sigs.k8s.io/docs/user/ingress).

A NodePort Service could also be used behind an Ingress which is terminating TLS.

For example:

```yaml
apiVersion: v1
kind: Service
metadata:
  name: pinniped-supervisor-nodeport
  # Assuming that this is the namespace where the supervisor was installed. This is the default in install-supervisor.yaml.
  namespace: pinniped-supervisor
spec:
  type: NodePort
  selector:
    # Assuming that this is how the supervisor pods are labeled. This is the default in install-supervisor.yaml.
    app: pinniped-supervisor
  ports:
  - protocol: TCP
    port: 80
    targetPort: 80
    nodePort: 31234 # This is the port that you would forward to the kind host. Or omit this key for a random port.
```

### Configuring the Supervisor to Act as an OIDC Provider

The Supervisor can be configured as an OIDC provider by creating `OIDCProviderConfig` resources
in the same namespace where the Supervisor app was installed. For example:

```yaml
apiVersion: config.pinniped.dev/v1alpha1
kind: OIDCProviderConfig
metadata:
  name: my-provider
  # Assuming that this is the namespace where the supervisor was installed. This is the default in install-supervisor.yaml.
  namespace: pinniped-supervisor
spec:
  # The hostname would typically match the DNS name of the public ingress or load balancer for the cluster.
  # Any path can be specified, which allows a single hostname to have multiple different issuers. The path is optional.
  issuer: https://my-issuer.example.com/any/path
```

If you are using a LoadBalancer Service to expose the Supervisor app outside your cluster, then you will
also need to configure the OIDCProviderConfig with TLS certificates, so the app can terminate TLS.
You can create the certificates however you like, for example you could use [cert-manager](https://cert-manager.io/).
Keep in mind that your users will load some of these endpoints in their web browsers, so the TLS certificates
should be signed by a Certificate Authority that will be trusted by those browsers.

If you have terminated TLS outside the app, for example using an Ingress with TLS certificates, then you do not need to
configure TLS certificates on the OIDCProviderConfig.