Covers improvements to Kubernetes authorization, authentication, and cluster security policy.

"All I want is a secure system where it's easy to do anything I want. Is that so much to ask?" - xkcd

The charter defines the scope and governance of the Auth Special Interest Group.

• Regular SIG Meeting: Wednesdays at 11:00 PT (Pacific Time) (biweekly). Convert to your timezone.
  • Meeting notes and Agenda.
  • Meeting recordings.

The Chairs of the SIG run operations and processes governing the SIG.

• Mo Khan (@enj), Red Hat
• Mike Danese (@mikedanese), Google
• Tim Allclair (@tallclair), Google

The Technical Leads of the SIG establish new subprojects, decommission existing subprojects, and resolve cross-subproject technical issues and decisions.

• David Eads (@deads2k), Red Hat
• Jordan Liggitt (@liggitt), Google
• Mike Danese (@mikedanese), Google

• Eric Chiang (@ericchiang), Red Hat
• Eric Tune (@erictune), Google

• Slack
• Mailing list
• Open Community Issues/PRs

The following subprojects are owned by sig-auth:

• audit-logging
  • Description: Kubernetes API support for audit logging.
  • Owners:
    • https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/master/staging/src/k8s.io/api/auditregistration/OWNERS
    • https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/master/staging/src/k8s.io/apiserver/pkg/apis/audit/OWNERS
    • https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/master/staging/src/k8s.io/apiserver/pkg/audit/OWNERS
    • https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/master/staging/src/k8s.io/apiserver/plugin/pkg/audit/OWNERS
• authenticators
  • Description: Kubernetes API support for authentication.
  • Owners:
    • https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/master/pkg/apis/authentication/OWNERS
    • https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/master/pkg/kubeapiserver/authenticator/OWNERS
    • https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/master/pkg/registry/authentication/OWNERS
    • https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/master/plugin/pkg/auth/authenticator/OWNERS
    • https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/master/staging/src/k8s.io/api/authentication/OWNERS
    • https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/master/staging/src/k8s.io/apiserver/pkg/authentication/OWNERS
    • https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/master/staging/src/k8s.io/apiserver/plugin/pkg/authenticator/OWNERS
    • https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/master/staging/src/k8s.io/client-go/kubernetes/typed/authentication/OWNERS
    • https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/master/staging/src/k8s.io/client-go/listers/authentication/OWNERS
    • https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/master/staging/src/k8s.io/client-go/pkg/apis/clientauthentication/OWNERS
    • https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/master/staging/src/k8s.io/client-go/plugin/pkg/client/auth/OWNERS
    • https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/master/staging/src/k8s.io/client-go/tools/auth/OWNERS
• authorizers
  • Description: Kubernetes API support for authorization.
  • Owners:
    • https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/master/pkg/apis/authorization/OWNERS
    • https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/master/pkg/apis/rbac/OWNERS
    • https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/master/pkg/kubeapiserver/authorizer/OWNERS
    • https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/master/pkg/kubectl/cmd/auth/OWNERS
    • https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/master/pkg/registry/authorization/OWNERS
    • https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/master/pkg/registry/rbac/OWNERS
    • https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/master/plugin/pkg/auth/authorizer/OWNERS
    • https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/master/staging/src/k8s.io/api/authorization/OWNERS
    • https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/master/staging/src/k8s.io/api/rbac/OWNERS
    • https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/master/staging/src/k8s.io/apiserver/pkg/authorization/OWNERS
    • https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/master/staging/src/k8s.io/apiserver/plugin/pkg/authorizer/OWNERS
    • https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/master/staging/src/k8s.io/client-go/kubernetes/typed/authorization/OWNERS
    • https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/master/staging/src/k8s.io/client-go/kubernetes/typed/rbac/OWNERS
    • https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/master/staging/src/k8s.io/client-go/listers/authorization/OWNERS
    • https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/master/staging/src/k8s.io/client-go/listers/rbac/OWNERS
• certificates
  • Description: Certificates APIs and client infrastructure to support PKI.
  • Owners:
    • https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/master/pkg/apis/certificates/OWNERS
    • https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/master/pkg/controller/certificates/OWNERS
    • https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/master/pkg/registry/certificates/OWNERS
    • https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/master/staging/src/k8s.io/apiserver/pkg/authentication/request/x509/OWNERS
    • https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/master/staging/src/k8s.io/client-go/util/cert/OWNERS
    • https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/master/staging/src/k8s.io/client-go/util/certificate/OWNERS
• encryption-at-rest
  • Description: API storage support for storing data encrypted at rest in etcd.
  • Owners:
    • https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/master/staging/src/k8s.io/apiserver/pkg/server/options/encryptionconfig/OWNERS
    • https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/master/staging/src/k8s.io/apiserver/pkg/storage/value/encrypt/OWNERS
• multi-tenancy
  • Description: Proposals and prototypes for introducing tenant model to enable multi-tenant cluster
  • Owners:
    • https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes-sigs/multi-tenancy/master/OWNERS
• node-identity-and-isolation
  • Description: Node identity management (co-owned with sig-lifecycle), and authorization restrictions for isolating workloads on separate nodes (co-owned with sig-node).
  • Owners:
    • https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/master/pkg/controller/certificates/approver/OWNERS
    • https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/master/pkg/kubelet/certificate/OWNERS
    • https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/master/plugin/pkg/admission/noderestriction/OWNERS
    • https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/master/plugin/pkg/auth/authorizer/node/OWNERS
• policy-management
  • Description: API validation and policies enforced during admission, such as PodSecurityPolicy. Excludes run-time policies like NetworkPolicy and Seccomp.
  • Owners:
    • https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/master/pkg/apis/imagepolicy/OWNERS
    • https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/master/pkg/apis/policy/OWNERS
    • https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/master/pkg/registry/policy/OWNERS
    • https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/master/pkg/security/podsecuritypolicy/OWNERS
    • https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/master/plugin/pkg/admission/imagepolicy/OWNERS
    • https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/master/plugin/pkg/admission/security/podsecuritypolicy/OWNERS
    • https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/master/staging/src/k8s.io/api/imagepolicy/OWNERS
    • https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/master/staging/src/k8s.io/api/policy/OWNERS
• service-accounts
  • Description: Infrastructure implementing Kubernetes service account based workload identity.
  • Owners:
    • https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/master/pkg/controller/serviceaccount/OWNERS
    • https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/master/pkg/kubelet/token/OWNERS
    • https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/master/pkg/serviceaccount/OWNERS
    • https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/master/plugin/pkg/admission/serviceaccount/OWNERS

The below teams can be mentioned on issues and PRs in order to get attention from the right people. Note that the links to display team membership will only work if you are a member of the org.