impersonator: add docs regarding limited serivce account

Signed-off-by: Monis Khan <mok@vmware.com>
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Monis Khan 2021-06-11 13:56:11 -04:00
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@ -11,7 +11,9 @@ The specifics of how it is implemented are of interest. The most novel detail
about the implementation is that we use the "front-end" of the aggregated API
server logic, mainly the DefaultBuildHandlerChain func, to handle how incoming
requests are authenticated, authorized, etc. The "back-end" of the proxy is a
reverse proxy that impersonates the user (instead of serving REST APIs).
reverse proxy that impersonates the user (instead of serving REST APIs). Since
impersonation fails open, we impersonate users via a secondary service account
that has no other permissions on the cluster.
In terms of authentication, we aim to handle every type of authentication that
the Kubernetes API server supports by delegating most of the checks to it. We