Hoseok Seo discusses configuring access to the Kubernetes Dashboard using OKTA for authentication. OKTA allows IT to manage employee access to any application from a central location. LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) is a standard for accessing and managing directory services like Active Directory, facilitating sharing of user and system information between applications that need it. OKTA provides directory services with an LDAP interface that can be used to authenticate with applications like the Kubernetes Dashboard using the kubernetes-dashboard-auth plugin on GitHub.

1. Hoseok Seo
Kubernetes Dashboard
access using OKTA

2. What is OKTA?
IT can manage any employee's access to any application or device.
https://support.okta.com/help/s/article/What-is-Okta

3. What is LDAP? (LIGHTWEIGHT DIRECTORY ACCESS PROTOCOL)
Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) is a standard application protocol for accessing and managing a directory service. It is
supported by most vendor directory services, including Active Directory (AD), and facilitates the sharing of information on users, systems,
networks, services, and applications with applications and services that need it.
The concept of LDAP is its information model, which handles with information stored in directories and the hierarchical structuring of
information. The information model revolves around an entry (user or group, organization …) , which is a collection of fields that are
attributed to a user with type and value. Entries are organized in a tree structure called the directory information tree. The entries are
composed around real world concepts, organization, people and objects. Attribute types are associated with syntax defining allowed
information. An attribute in its singularity can enclose multiple values/fields init.
https://doubleoctopus.com/security-wiki/protocol/lightweight-directory-access-protocol/

4. Working step

5. OKTA Directory Services

6. OKTA Directory Services - LDAP Interface

7. Kubernetes-dashboard-auth (for LDAP)
https://github.com/mdschweda/kubernetes-dashboard-auth

8. Kubernetes-dashboard-auth (

9. Kubernetes-dashboard-auth ( )

10. Kubernetes-dashboard-auth ( )

11. EKS Cluster POD & SVC Info

12. Kubernetes-dashboard-auth - Login

13. Kubernetes Dashboard - After login using OKTA LDAP

14. Kubernetes Dashboard - Auth Header

15. Thank you