Feature Overview (aka. Goal Summary)  

The ability in OpenShift to create trust and directly consume access tokens issued by external OIDC Authentication Providers using an authentication approach similar to upstream Kubernetes.

BYO Identity will help facilitate CLI only workflows and capabilities of the Authentication Provider (such as Keycloak, Dex, Azure AD) similar to upstream Kubernetes. 

Goals (aka. expected user outcomes)

Ability in OpenShift to provide a direct, pluggable Authentication workflow such that the OpenShift/K8s API server can consume access tokens issued by external OIDC identity providers. Kubernetes provides this integration as described here. Customer/Users can then configure their IDPs to support the OIDC protocols and workflows they desire such as Client credential flow.

OpenShift OAuth server is still available as default option, with the ability to tune in the external OIDC provider as a Day-2 configuration.

Requirements (aka. Acceptance Criteria):

1. The customer should be able to tie into RBAC functionality, similar to how it is closely aligned with OpenShift OAuth 

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Use Cases (Optional):

1. As a customer, I would like to integrate my OIDC Identity Provider directly with the OpenShift API server.
2. As a customer in multi-cluster cloud environment, I have both K8s and non-K8s clusters using my IDP and hence I need seamless authentication directly to the OpenShift/K8sAPI using my Identity Provider 
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Questions to Answer (Optional):

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Out of Scope

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Background

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Customer Considerations

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Documentation Considerations

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Interoperability Considerations

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