Basic Authentication¶

This example shows how to add authentication in a Ingress rule using a secret that contains a file generated with htpasswd. It's important the file generated is named auth (actually - that the secret has a key data.auth), otherwise the ingress-controller returns a 503.

Create htpasswd file¶

$ htpasswd -c auth foo
New password: <bar>
New password:
Re-type new password:
Adding password for user foo

Convert htpasswd into a secret¶

$ kubectl create secret -n generic basic-auth --from-file=auth
secret "basic-auth" created

Examine secret¶

$ kubectl get secret basic-auth -o yaml
apiVersion: v1
data:
  auth: Zm9vOiRhcHIxJE9GRzNYeWJwJGNrTDBGSERBa29YWUlsSDkuY3lzVDAK
kind: Secret
metadata:
  name: basic-auth
  namespace: default
type: Opaque