Service Account

Steps to Create Service Accounts for Spinnaker

Overview

• To automatically trigger pipelines and to modify the resources in accounts or applications, Fiat Service Accounts are used. This means that a GIT commit could trigger a Jenkins build that could kick off a pipeline to deploy the newly built image in your access-controlled QA environment.

Steps to Create Service Accounts

• Service accounts are persistent and configuration merely consists of giving it a name and a set of roles. Therefore, Front50 is the most logical place to configure a service account. There is no UI for creating service accounts at the moment.

• The roles you give this service account determine who has access to use it. In order to prevent a privilege escalation vulnerability, only users with every role the service account has may use it.

• Ensure to Update when Halyard Support Service Accounts. Till then, execute the below

  FRONT50=http://front50.url:8080
  
  curl -X POST \
  -H "Content-type: application/json" \
  -d '{ "name": "[email protected]", "memberOf": ["myApp-
  prod","myApp-qa"] }' \
  $FRONT50/serviceAccounts

• Newly created Service account can be seen,

  curl $FRONT50/serviceAccounts

• To pick up the changes made, its mandate to sync Fiat

  FIAT=http://fiat.url:7003
  
  curl -X POST $FIAT/roles/sync

• Ensure to provide all the necessary permissions for the newly created service account

  curl $FIAT/authorize/myApp-svc-account

How to use Service Accounts

• Now that Fiat is enabled, user should be able to see “Run As User” option in the Trigger configuration. This list contains all the service accounts currently can be accessed

• Upon saving the pipeline, two authorization checks will occur:

  1. Does the user have access to this service account?

  2. Does the service account have access to this application?

• At pipeline runtime, standard authorization checks against the account and application occur just as if it were a human user.