Managed Auth
Abstracted authentication for simplified user management
Managed Auth is the recommended path for handling user authentication for CKS Clusters.
Managed Authentication, simply called Managed Auth, is a series of CoreWeave provided services that abstract authentication in order to offer customers flexible, simple, and secure methods of authentication management for CKS.
The Managed Auth suite is comprised of:
- The CoreWeave Cloud Console,
- CoreWeave API Access Tokens,
- generated Kubeconfig files,
- and session cookies in the user's Web browser when using the Cloud Console.
These services are used to authenticate to their CKS organization and top-level resources.
To learn more about user permissions and user authorization within CKS, see User Permissions.
Managed Auth and metrics
Grafana metrics are gated behind Managed Auth services. In order to export metrics or use Managed Grafana, the Managed Auth methods must be used.
Other authentication methods for CKS clusters
CKS Clusters, specifically, do allow for additional methods of authentication. For more information, see:
Please note that no other authentication method is supported to create new CKS Clusters or VPCs - only CKS Clusters that have already been created allow for alternative authentication methods.