Kubeflow Profile CRD is designed to solve access management within multi-user kubernetes cluster.

Profile access management provides namespace level isolation based on:

• Kubernetes RBAC
• Istio AuthorizationPolicy

Resources managed by profile CRD:

Each profile CRD will manage one namespace (with same name as profile CRD) and will have one owner. Specifically, each profile CRD will manage following resources:

• Namespace reserved for profile owner.
• K8s RBAC RoleBinding namespaceAdmin: make profile owner the namespace admin, allow access to above namespace via k8s API (kubectl).
• Istio namespace-scoped ServiceRole ns-access-istio: allow access to all services in target namespace via Istio routing.
• Istio namespace-scoped ServiceRoleBinding owner-binding-istio: bind ServiceRole ns-access-istio to profile owner. So profile owner can access services in above namespace via Istio (browser).
• Setup namespace-scoped service-accounts editor and viewer to be used by user-created pods in above namespace.
• Resource Quota (since v1beta1)
• Custom Plugins (since v1beta1)

GCP

• All users should have IAM permission Kubernetes Engine Cluster Viewer
  • This is needed in order to get cluster access by gcloud container clusters get-credentials
• kubeflow cluster with version v0.6.2+
• kubeflow cluster ingress is setup with GCP IAP

Detailed document for Kubeflow Multi-Tenancy

Cluster admin can manage access management for cluster users:

To create an isolated namespace kubeflow-user1 for user user1@abcd.com

• Admin can create a profile via kubectl:

kubectl create -f /path/to/profile/config

To revoke access to namespace kubeflow-user1 from user user1@abcd.com and delete namespace kubeflow-user1

• Admin can delete profile kubeflow-user1:

kubectl delete profile kubeflow-user1

Users with access to cluster API server should be able to register and use kubeflow cluster without admin manual approve.

Profile v1beta1 introduced 2 new customizable fields:

Profile now support configuring ResourceQuotaSpec as part of profile CR.

• ResourceQuotaSpec field will accept standard k8s ResourceQuotaSpec
• A resource quota will be created in target namespace.
• Example

Plugins field is introduced to support customized actions based on k8s cluster's surrounding platform.

Consider adding a plugin when you want to have platform-specific logics like managing resources outside k8s cluster.

Plugin interface is defined as:

type Plugin interface {
	// Called when profile CR is created / updated
	ApplyPlugin(*ProfileReconciler, *profilev1beta1.Profile) error
	// Called when profile CR is deleted, to cleanup any non-k8s resources created via ApplyPlugin
	RevokePlugin(*ProfileReconciler, *profilev1beta1.Profile) error
}

Plugin owners have full control over plugin spec struct and implementation.

Available plugins:

• WorkloadIdentity
  • Platform: GKE
  • Type: credential binding
  • WorkloadIdentity plugin will bind k8s service account to GCP service account, so pods in profile namespace can talk to GCP APIs as GCP service account identity.
• IAMForServiceAccount
  • Platform: EKS
  • Type: credential binding
  • IAM For Service Account plugin will grant k8s service account permission of IAM role, so pods in profile namespace can authenticate AWS services as IAM role.

Install the profiles.kubeflow.org CRD:

make install

Deploy the profile controller manager:

make deploy

Verify that the controller is running in the profiles-system namespace:

kubectl get pods -l kustomize.component=profiles -n profiles-system

Uninstall the profile controller manager:

make undeploy

Uninstall the profiles.kubeflow.org CRD:

make uninstall

In order for the custom Notebook Controller to be functional from your local machine, the admins must:

1. Set the number of replicas to zero:

kubectl edit deployment profiles-deployment -n=kubeflow

2. Start the manager locally:

make run