User Impersonation with X-Pack: Integrating Third Party Auth with Kibana
Blog post from Elastic
X-Pack Security is a robust system for securing Elasticsearch clusters, offering authentication and authorization through Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) and various built-in realms like Native, LDAP, and Active Directory. For cases where third-party authentication systems are needed, users can either create a custom realm or employ a reverse proxy alongside X-Pack Security's impersonation feature. This setup, demonstrated using Google Sign-In, Bitly's oauth2_proxy, and Nginx, allows for seamless integration with Kibana by translating third-party credentials into X-Pack Security's Native realm users and managing authorization. The guide emphasizes the importance of securing such configurations for production environments by implementing TLS, hardening proxies, and defining restrictive user roles. X-Pack Security's impersonation capability extends beyond Native realm users to support LDAP and Active Directory, offering flexibility for integrating various authentication services.
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