Basic Authentication

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 - username
• BASIC_AUTH_PASSWORD - password

Enable Authentication

• Basic 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
  

Disable Authentication

• 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