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* feat: add dex installation documentation
* add: dex-integration concepts

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---
id: oauth-dex-concept
title: Authentication process in ChaosCenter
sidebar_label: Authentication in ChoasCenter
---

---

## Prerequisites

- [OAuth](https://oauth.net/specs/)

ChaosCenter allows OAuth as well as local authentication using Dex and the authentication server.


## Authentication Architecture

<img src={require('../assets/concepts/authentication/architecture.png').default} width="800" /><br/><br/>


Litmus portal uses two components for authentication of users:

- Authentication Server
- Dex OIDC Server (Optional)

By default litmus-portal comes with then authentication server as part of the `litmusportal-server` deployment and it allows local authentication that is based of mongo database. Client services such as `litmus-ctl` and `litmusportal-frontend` make use of this server.

In order to provide enhanced and seamless login features, we wanted to integrate OAuth and other authentication mechanisms such as OpenID connect. To have flexibility, litmus-portal makes use of an additional component, [Dex OIDC server](https://dexidp.io/).

Dex is a highly extensible cloud-native OIDC provider that is able to take care of various authentication mechanisms. With Dex being deployed, the authentication-server can communicate with the dex-server, enabling integration of various OAuth providers. GitHub and Google auth has been tested at present.


## Resources

- [Deploying OAuth in ChaosCenter](../user-guides/chaoscenter-oauth-dex-installation.md)









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id: chaoscenter-oauth-dex-installation
title: ChaosCenter with OAuth2 Login Support
sidebar_label: OAuth2 Support using Dex
---

---

# Prerequisites

Before deploying LitmusChaos, make sure the following items are there

- Kubernetes 1.17 or later

- A Persistent volume of 20GB

:::note
Recommend to have a Persistent volume(PV) of 20GB, You can start with 1GB for test purposes as well. This PV is used as persistent storage to store the chaos config and chaos-metrics in the Portal. By default, litmus install would use the default storage class to allocate the PV. Provide this value
:::

- [kubectl](https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/tools/#kubectl)

- [Deployed ChaosCenter](../getting-started/installation.md)

- Atleast one of the following
- Google Oauth credentials
- GitHub Oauth credentials

## Deploy Dex OIDC provider

In order to enable OAuth2 and to be able to login via Google and GitHub, litmus uses [Dex OIDC](https://dexidp.io/)

Make sure you have your Google and GitHub Client credentials ready, if you do not have them, you can generate one yourself

- [Guide to generating Google Oauth Client Credentials](https://support.google.com/cloud/answer/6158849?hl=en#zippy=)
- [Guide to generating GitHub OAuth Client Credentials](https://docs.github.com/en/developers/apps/building-oauth-apps/creating-an-oauth-app)


### Configuring Dex OIDC provider


```bash
curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/litmuschaos/litmus/8d025a2f3101990a1acc002612fbe7281dcbfb4d/litmus-portal/dex-server/dex-deployment.yaml --output dex-deployment.yaml
```

1. Open the file with your favorite text-editor
2. You will find the following `config-map` with some data, replace your data as the comments suggests
```yaml
issuer: http://<NODE_IP>:32000 # Replace your NODE_IP here
storage:
type: kubernetes
config:
inCluster: true
web:
http: 0.0.0.0:5556
staticClients:
- id: LitmusPortalAuthBackend
redirectURIs:
- '/auth/dex/callback'
- 'http://localhost:8080/auth/dex/callback' # Included for local testing purposes
name: 'LitmusPortalAuthBackend'
secret: ZXhhbXBsZS1hcHAtc2VjcmV0
oauth2:
skipApprovalScreen: true
connectors:
- type: google
id: google
name: Google
config:
clientID: # Add your Google Client ID here
clientSecret: # Add your Google Client Secret here
redirectURI: http://<NODE_IP>:32000 # Replace your NODE_IP here
- type: github
id: github
name: GitHub
config:
clientID: # Add your GitHub Client ID here
clientSecret: # Add your GitHub Client Secret here
redirectURI: http://<NODE_IP>:32000/callback # Replace your NODE_IP here
```
**Note: The Dex OIDC provider runs at `NODE_IP:32000` by default**

After the configuration, deploy the Dex deployment using the following command:

```bash
kubectl apply -f dex-deployment.yaml
```

You should now see the dex-server deployed in the litmus namespace!

```bash
kubectl get pods -n litmus
```

<span style={{color: 'green'}}><b>Expected Output</b></span>

```bash
NAME READY STATUS RESTARTS AGE
litmusportal-dex-server-7f7658b57-lbbxc 1/1 Running 0 107s
litmusportal-frontend-74d456746f-56v9x 1/1 Running 0 5m57s
litmusportal-server-9c4d85f57-5r6km 2/2 Running 0 5m57s
mongo-0 1/1 Running 0 5m57s
```


### Configuring `litmusportal-server` to enable Dex features

To set up Dex, we would require to modify our litmusportal-server a bit in order to communicate with Dex. This will be achieved by adding some environment variables

- `OIDC_ISSUER`: The place where the Dex OIDC lives, i.e `NODE_IP:32000`
- `DEX_ENABLED`: This variable enables dex features in the litmusportal-server
- `CALLBACK_URL`: This is the url that will be called back after user completes thier OAuth, this will be the litmusportal-frontend service

Set your variables using

```bash
kubectl set env deployment/litmusportal-server -n litmus --containers="auth-server" DEX_SERVER="true", OIDC_ISSUER=<REPLACE_NODE_IP>:32000, CALLBACK_URL=<REPLACE_litmusportal_frontend_Service>
```
Your litmusportal-server pod will be restarted and Dex features will be enabled!

### Verifying if OAuth2 is enabled

Go to http://litmusportal-frontend-service/auth/dex/login, you should be prompted with Google or GitHub login

![litmus-oauth-image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/31009634/135559389-c8cdf53c-76cf-4f9d-acaa-99014540f9cf.png)



## Resources

- [Dex OIDC Provider configurations](https://dexidp.io/docs/)

## Learn more

- [Install ChaosCenter in Namespace Scope](../user-guides/chaoscenter-namespace-scope-installation.md)
- [Connect External ChaosAgents to ChaosCenter](../user-guides/chaosagents-installation.md)
- [Setup Endpoints and Access ChaosCenter without Ingress](../user-guides/setup-without-ingress.md)
- [Setup Endpoints and Access ChaosCenter with Ingress](../user-guides/setup-with-ingress.md)

4 changes: 3 additions & 1 deletion website/sidebars.js
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'concepts/user-management',
'concepts/projects',
'concepts/teaming',
'concepts/gitops'
'concepts/gitops',
'concepts/oauth-dex-concept'
]
},

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'Advanced Installation': [
{
ChaosCenter: [
'user-guides/chaoscenter-oauth-dex-installation',
'user-guides/chaoscenter-cluster-scope-installation',
'user-guides/chaoscenter-namespace-scope-installation',
'user-guides/setup-without-ingress',
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