Kubernetes Secrets Store CSI Provider

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Secrets Store CSI Driver for Kubernetes secrets - Integrates secret stores with Kubernetes via a Container Storage Interface (CSI) volume.

The Secrets Store CSI Driver secrets-store.csi.k8s.io allows Kubernetes to mount multiple secrets, keys, and certs stored in enterprise-grade external secrets stores into their pods as a volume. Once the Volume is attached, the data in it is mounted into the container's file system.

Akeyless provider for the Secrets Store CSI driver allows you to fetch existing secrets that are stored in Akeyless and use the Secrets Store CSI driver interface to mount them into Kubernetes pods.

Similar to Kubernetes secrets, upon pod start, the Secrets Store CSI driver communicates with the provider using gRPC to retrieve the secret content from the external Secrets Store specified in the SecretProviderClass custom resource.

Then the volume is mounted in the pod as tmpfs and the secret value is written to the volume.
Once a pod is being deleted, the corresponding volume is cleaned up and deleted.

Prerequisites

SecretProviderClass

The SecretProviderClass is a namespaced resource in Secrets Store CSI Provider that is used to provide configurations and provider-specific parameters to the CSI provider.

Supported Authentication Methods :

SecretProviderClass custom resource should state the akeylessAccessType- which can be one of the supported Authentication Methods : access_key, aws_iam, azure_ad, gcp, universal_identity.

While using azure_ad``gcp or universal_identity the following parameters should be provided accordingly: akeylessAzureObjectID ,akeylessGCPAudience orakeylessUIDInitToken.

Example of a SecretProviderClass resource:

apiVersion: secrets-store.csi.x-k8s.io/v1
kind: SecretProviderClass
metadata:
  name: akeyless-test
spec:
  provider: akeyless
  parameters:
    akeylessGatewayURL: "https://api.akeyless.io"
    akeylessAccessID: "p-xxxxxxxxxxx"
    akeylessAccessKey: "XXXXXXXXXXXXX"
    akeylessAccessType: "access_key"
    objects:  |
      - secretPath: "/akeyless-csi-secret/foo"
        fileName: "bar"        
      - secretPath: "/akeyless-csi-secret/secret"
        fileName: "bar1"

apiVersion: secrets-store.csi.x-k8s.io/v1
kind: SecretProviderClass
metadata:
  name: akeyless-test
spec:
  provider: akeyless
  parameters:
    akeylessGatewayURL: "https://api.akeyless.io"
    akeylessAccessID: "p-xxxxxxxxx"
    akeylessAzureObjectID: "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"
    akeylessAccessType: "azure_ad"
    objects:  |
      - secretPath: "/akeyless-csi-secret/foo"
        fileName: "bar"        
      - secretPath: "/akeyless-csi-secret/secret"
        fileName: "bar1"

apiVersion: secrets-store.csi.x-k8s.io/v1
kind: SecretProviderClass
metadata:
  name: akeyless-test
spec:
  provider: akeyless
  parameters:
    akeylessGatewayURL: "https://api.akeyless.io"
    akeylessAccessID: "p-xxxxxxxxx"
    akeylessGCPAudience: "akeyless.io"
    akeylessAccessType: "gcp"
    objects:  |
      - secretPath: "/akeyless-csi-secret/foo"
        fileName: "bar"        
      - secretPath: "/akeyless-csi-secret/secret"
        fileName: "bar1"

apiVersion: secrets-store.csi.x-k8s.io/v1
kind: SecretProviderClass
metadata:
  name: akeyless-test
spec:
  provider: akeyless
  parameters:
    akeylessGatewayURL: "https://api.akeyless.io"
    akeylessAccessID: "p-xxxxxxxxx"
    akeylessUIDInitToken: "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"
    akeylessAccessType: "universal_identity"
    objects:  |
      - secretPath: "/akeyless-csi-secret/foo"
        fileName: "bar"        
      - secretPath: "/akeyless-csi-secret/secret"
        fileName: "bar1"

apiVersion: secrets-store.csi.x-k8s.io/v1
kind: SecretProviderClass
metadata:
  name: akeyless-test
spec:
  provider: akeyless
  parameters:
    akeylessGatewayURL: "https://api.akeyless.io"
    akeylessAccessID: "p-xxxxxxxxx"
    akeylessAccessType: "aws_iam"
    objects:  |
      - secretPath: "/akeyless-csi-secret/foo"
        fileName: "bar"        
      - secretPath: "/akeyless-csi-secret/secret"
        fileName: "bar1"

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Note:

Using Access Key within YAML files is not secure. You can provide the AKEYLESS_ACCESS_KEY as an environment variable instead.

Reference the SecretProviderClass inside the pod deployment volumes when using the CSI driver:

volumes:
    - name: secrets-store-inline
      csi:
        driver: secrets-store.csi.k8s.io
        readOnly: true
        volumeAttributes:
          secretProviderClass: akeyless-example

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Note:

The SecretProviderClass needs to be created in the same namespace as the pod.

Installation

Using helm

helm repo add akeyless https://akeylesslabs.github.io/helm-charts
helm install akeyless akeyless/akeyless-csi-provider

Or via local Yaml file which located under deployment folder on this git

kubectl apply -f deployment/akeyless-csi-provider.yaml

Updated about 2 months ago

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