docs/doc/source/security/kubernetes/overview-of-windows-active-directory.rst
Ron Stone f125a8b892 Remove spurious escapes (r8,dsR8)
This change addresses a long-standing issue in rST documentation imported from XML.
That import process added backslash escapes in front of various characters. The three
most common being '(', ')', and '_'.
These instances are removed.

Signed-off-by: Ron Stone <ronald.stone@windriver.com>
Change-Id: Id43a9337ffcd505ccbdf072d7b29afdb5d2c997e
2023-03-01 11:19:04 +00:00

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.. _overview-of-windows-active-directory:
====================================
Overview of Windows Active Directory
====================================
|prod-long| can be configured to use a remote Windows Active Directory server
to authenticate users of the Kubernetes API, using the **oidc-auth-apps**
application.
The **oidc-auth-apps** application installs a proxy |OIDC| identity provider
that can be configured to proxy authentication requests to an |LDAP| (s)
identity provider, such as Windows Active Directory. For more information, see,
`https://github.com/dexidp/dex <https://github.com/dexidp/dex>`__. The
**oidc-auth-apps** application also provides an |OIDC| client for accessing the
username and password |OIDC| login page for user authentication and retrieval
of tokens. An **oidc-auth** CLI script can also be used for |OIDC| user
authentication and retrieval of tokens.
In addition to installing and configuring the **oidc-auth-apps**
application, the admin must also configure Kubernetes cluster's
**kube-apiserver** to use the **oidc-auth-apps** |OIDC| identity provider for
validation of tokens in Kubernetes API requests.