When Nomad is configured with `verify_https_client=false` endpoints that
do not require an ACL token can be accessed without any other type of
authentication. Expand the docs to mention this effect.
Some of our documentation on `tls` configuration could be more clear as to
whether we're referring to mTLS or TLS. Also, when ACLs are enabled it's fine to
have `verify_https_client=false` (the default). Make it clear that this is an
acceptably secure configuration and that it's in fact recommended in order to
avoid pain of distributing client certs to user browsers.
It includes the work over the state store, the PRC server, the HTTP server, the go API package and the CLI's command. To read more on the actuall functionality, refer to the RFCs [NMD-178] Locking with Nomad Variables and [NMD-179] Leader election using locking mechanism for the Autoscaler.
This complements the `env` parameter, so that the operator can author
tasks that don't share their Vault token with the workload when using
`image` filesystem isolation. As a result, more powerful tokens can be used
in a job definition, allowing it to use template stanzas to issue all kinds of
secrets (database secrets, Vault tokens with very specific policies, etc.),
without sharing that issuing power with the task itself.
This is accomplished by creating a directory called `private` within
the task's working directory, which shares many properties of
the `secrets` directory (tmpfs where possible, not accessible by
`nomad alloc fs` or Nomad's web UI), but isn't mounted into/bound to the
container.
If the `disable_file` parameter is set to `false` (its default), the Vault token
is also written to the NOMAD_SECRETS_DIR, so the default behavior is
backwards compatible. Even if the operator never changes the default,
they will still benefit from the improved behavior of Nomad never reading
the token back in from that - potentially altered - location.
Workload Identities have an implicit default policy. This policy can't currently
be described via HCL because it includes task interpolation for Variables and
access to the Services API (which doesn't exist as its own ACL
capbility). Describe this in our WI documentation.
Fixes: #16277
The `DisableLogCollection` capability was introduced as an experimental
interface for the Docker driver in 0.10.4. The interface has been stable and
allowing third-party task drivers the same capability would be useful for those
drivers that don't need the additional overhead of logmon.
This PR only makes the capability public. It doesn't yet add it to the
configuration options for the other internal drivers.
Fixes: #14636#15686
The vSphere plugin is exclusive to k8s because it relies on k8s-APIs (and
crashes without them being present). Upstream unfortunately will not support
Nomad, so we shouldn't refer to it in our concept docs here.
ACL policies can be associated with a job so that the job's Workload Identity
can have expanded access to other policy objects, including other
variables. Policies set on the variables the job automatically has access to
were ignored, but this includes policies with `deny` capabilities.
Additionally, when resolving claims for a workload identity without any attached
policies, the `ResolveClaims` method returned a `nil` ACL object, which is
treated similarly to a management token. While this was safe in Nomad 1.4.x,
when the workload identity token was exposed to the task via the `identity`
block, this allows a user with `submit-job` capabilities to escalate their
privileges.
We originally implemented automatic workload access to Variables as a separate
code path in the Variables RPC endpoint so that we don't have to generate
on-the-fly policies that blow up the ACL policy cache. This is fairly brittle
but also the behavior around wildcard paths in policies different from the rest
of our ACL polices, which is hard to reason about.
Add an `ACLClaim` parameter to the `AllowVariableOperation` method so that we
can push all this logic into the `acl` package and the behavior can be
consistent. This will allow a `deny` policy to override automatic access (and
probably speed up checks of non-automatic variable access).
* docs: add dynamic node metadata api docs
Also update all paths in the client API docs to explicitly state the
`/v1/` prefix. We're inconsistent about that, but I think it's better to
display the full path than to only show the fragment. If we ever do a
`/v2/` whether or not we explicitly state `/v1/` in our docs won't be
our greatest concern.
* docs: add task-api docs
Add `identity` jobspec block to expose workload identity tokens to tasks.
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Co-authored-by: Anders <mail@anars.dk>
Co-authored-by: Tim Gross <tgross@hashicorp.com>
Co-authored-by: Michael Schurter <mschurter@hashicorp.com>
* docs: clarify nomad vars vs vault
I think we should make the difference in root key management between
Nomad and Vault clear in the concept docs. I didn't see anywhere else in
the docs we compared it.
I also s/secrets/variables everywhere except the first sentence since
the feature is intended to be more generic than secrets. Right now it's
more of a compliment to Consul's kv than Vault due to root key handling
and featureset.
* Update website/content/docs/concepts/variables.mdx
Co-authored-by: Tim Gross <tgross@hashicorp.com>
This changeset adds new architecture internals documents to the contributing
guide. These are intentionally here and not on the public-facing website because
the material is not required for operators and includes a lot of diagrams that
we can cheaply maintain with mermaid syntax but would involve art assets to have
up on the main site that would become quickly out of date as code changes happen
and be extremely expensive to maintain. However, these should be suitable to use
as points of conversation with expert end users.
Included:
* A description of Evaluation triggers and expected counts, with examples.
* A description of Evaluation states and implicit states. This is taken from an
internal document in our team wiki.
* A description of how writing the State Store works. This is taken from a
diagram I put together a few months ago for internal education purposes.
* A description of Evaluation lifecycle, from registration to running
Allocations. This is mostly lifted from @lgfa29's amazing mega-diagram, but
broken into digestible chunks and without multi-region deployments, which I'd
like to cover in a future doc.
Also includes adding Deployments to our public-facing glossary.
Co-authored-by: Luiz Aoqui <luiz@hashicorp.com>
Co-authored-by: Michael Schurter <mschurter@hashicorp.com>
Co-authored-by: Seth Hoenig <shoenig@duck.com>
Nomad is generally compliant with the CSI specification for Container
Orchestrators (CO), except for unimplemented features. However, some storage
vendors have built CSI plugins that are not compliant with the specification or
which expect that they're only deployed on Kubernetes. Nomad cannot vouch for
the compatibility of any particular plugin, so clarify this in the docs.
Co-authored-by: Derek Strickland <1111455+DerekStrickland@users.noreply.github.com>
The original design for workload identities and ACLs allows for operators to
extend the automatic capabilities of a workload by using a specially-named
policy. This has shown to be potentially unsafe because of naming collisions, so
instead we'll allow operators to explicitly attach a policy to a workload
identity.
This changeset adds workload identity fields to ACL policy objects and threads
that all the way down to the command line. It also a new secondary index to the
ACL policy table on namespace and job so that claim resolution can efficiently
query for related policies.
