Tanzu Kubernetes Grid – K8s Authentication – Under the Hood

TKG 1.5 employs Pinniped as the authentication mechanism for user authentication against an existing IdP (LDAP, OIDC etc.). While deploying TKG in my lab, I wanted to understand the mechanics of this implementation and how it works. So lets start with.... What is Pinniped Kubernetes itself does not have a way of creating and managing …