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.
* Allow specification of CSI staging and publishing directory path
* Add website documentation for stage_publish_dir
* Replace erroneous reference to csi_plugin.mount_config with csi_plugin.mount_dir
* Avoid requiring CSI plugins to be redeployed after introducing StagePublishDir
