Authentication

Selfhosting multiple applications often means having to deal with disparate user accounts unless you can integrate them with a common third party. A tried and tested framework for this is the ubiquitous LDAP, or Lightweight Directory Access Protocol, server.

Kubernetes RBAC configuration can seem like a daunting task at first. In this article we will try to demystify some of the mechanism behind the authorisation process in Kubernetes and learn how to generate our own credentials to communicate with the Kubernetes API server.