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The Keptn Bridge has a basic authentication feature, which can be controlled by setting the following two environment variables in the deployment of the bridge:
BASIC_AUTH_USERNAME
- usernameBASIC_AUTH_PASSWORD
- passwordBasic authentication is enabled when executing the below command. The bridge-credentials
secret can be configured with your username and password.
These two variables are used to set your credentials: BASIC_AUTH_USERNAME
and BASIC_AUTH_PASSWORD
.
kubectl edit secrets -n keptn bridge-credentials
Example:
apiVersion: v1
data:
BASIC_AUTH_PASSWORD: myUserNameBase64Encoded=
BASIC_AUTH_USERNAME: myPasswordBase64Encoded=
kind: Secret
metadata:
creationTimestamp: "2021-08-24T11:15:59Z"
name: bridge-credentials
namespace: keptn
resourceVersion: "23676055"
selfLink: /api/v1/namespaces/keptn/secrets/bridge-credentials
uid: 67cfe5c1-5555-427c-9c4a-e91c51b7e8ba
type: Opaque
Restart the pod of the Keptn Bridge by executing:
kubectl -n keptn rollout restart deployment bridge
To disable the basic authentication, delete the secret by executing:
kubectl -n keptn delete secret bridge-credentials
Restart the pod of the Keptn Bridge by executing:
kubectl -n keptn rollout restart deployment bridge