RequestAuthentication

RequestAuthentication defines what request authentication methods are supported by a workload. It will reject a request if the request contains invalid authentication information, based on the configured authentication rules. A request that does not contain any authentication credentials will be accepted but will not have any authenticated identity. To restrict access to authenticated requests only, this should be accompanied by an authorization rule. Examples:

• Require JWT for all request for workloads that have label app:httpbin

apiVersion: security.istio.io/v1beta1
kind: RequestAuthentication
metadata:
  name: httpbin
  namespace: foo
spec:
  selector:
    matchLabels:
      app: httpbin
  jwtRules:
  - issuer: "issuer-foo"
    jwksUri: https://example.com/.well-known/jwks.json
---
apiVersion: security.istio.io/v1beta1
kind: AuthorizationPolicy
metadata:
  name: httpbin
  namespace: foo
spec:
  selector:
    matchLabels:
      app: httpbin
  rules:
  - from:
    - source:
        requestPrincipals: ["*"]

• The next example shows how to set a different JWT requirement for a different host. The RequestAuthentication declares it can accept JWTs issued by either issuer-foo or issuer-bar (the public key set is implicitly set from the OpenID Connect spec).

apiVersion: security.istio.io/v1beta1
kind: RequestAuthentication
metadata:
  name: httpbin
  namespace: foo
spec:
  selector:
    matchLabels:
      app: httpbin
  jwtRules:
  - issuer: "issuer-foo"
  - issuer: "issuer-bar"
---
apiVersion: security.istio.io/v1beta1
kind: AuthorizationPolicy
metadata:
  name: httpbin
  namespace: foo
spec:
  selector:
    matchLabels:
      app: httpbin
 rules:
 - from:
   - source:
       requestPrincipals: ["issuer-foo/*"]
   to:
     hosts: ["example.com"]
 - from:
   - source:
       requestPrincipals: ["issuer-bar/*"]
   to:
     hosts: ["another-host.com"]

• You can fine tune the authorization policy to set different requirement per path. For example, to require JWT on all paths, except /healthz, the same RequestAuthentication can be used, but the authorization policy could be:

apiVersion: security.istio.io/v1beta1
kind: AuthorizationPolicy
metadata:
  name: httpbin
  namespace: foo
spec:
  selector:
    matchLabels:
      app: httpbin
 rules:
 - from:
   - source:
       requestPrincipals: ["*"]
 - to:
   - operation:
       paths: ["/healthz"]