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feat: allow arbitrary length API tokens#752

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We have developed a soon-to-be-open-source proxy that forces specific labels in order to provide scoped API access, and that doesn't expose the real API token. This was created to have better control of resources inside the same project (as API tokens currently lack granularity), and to be able to use a single project securely, given that it isn't possible to create a project via the API.

One of it's operating modes is using JWT as a virtual self-validating token, which can't have a fixed size.

This support is required to make full use of it inside a Kubernetes cluster.

The feature is behind a default-false flag so it shouldn't interfere with current behavior.

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kubernetes/autoscaler#7285
hetznercloud/csi-driver#724

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Hey @kamushadenes,

I will respond here, but the same applies to the other two PRs:

This sounds very interesting. I am not sure if a flag is necessary, or if we just want to the whole validation. I will talk to the team responsible for tokens next week and will report back afterwards.

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apricote commented Oct 7, 2024

Hey @kamushadenes,

we talked about this today internally. We would prefer not to add any additional flags or environment variables to disable the check.

We also do not think that the check is strictly necessary. Instead we would prefer to change the errors when len(token) != 64 to a warning message but allow the token. This would also help us in the future if we ever change the format of our API tokens.

Do you want to update your PRs to log warnings or should we do work on that?

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Hey @apricote, thanks for getting back!

Makes total sense, I'll update the PRs in a couple hours when my day starts.

@kamushadenes kamushadenes changed the title Allow arbitrary length API token behind a flag Allow arbitrary length API token Oct 7, 2024
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Done!

@apricote apricote changed the title Allow arbitrary length API token feat: allow arbitrary length API tokens Oct 7, 2024
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Was about to leave a comment regarding the unit test :D

Do not worry about the e2e tests, they do not work for PRs from forks.

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Hey,

I checkout out the branch and there is only a small linting error with respect to import sorting. This can be fixed with golangci-lint run --fix. Otherwise, looks good 👍

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Oops, thanks for noticing, fixed!

@lukasmetzner lukasmetzner merged commit c40c75c into hetznercloud:main Jan 7, 2025
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<!-- section-start changelog -->
This release includes an extension of our current metrics to also
include the internals of `k8s.io/cloud-provider` with respect to the
work queue depth and requests to the Kubernetes API.

Besides having all data available, this will also help us with debugging
[#661](#661).

### Features

- **metrics**: add metrics from cloud-provider library (#824)
- **load-balancer**: emit warning if unsupported port protocol is
configured (#828)
- allow arbitrary length API tokens (#752)

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