Enable multi-tenancy

Tempo is a multi-tenant distributed tracing backend. It supports multi-tenancy through the use of a header: X-Scope-OrgID. Refer to multi-tenancy docs for more details. This document outlines how to deploy and use multi-tenant Tempo with the Operator.

Multi-tenancy without authentication

The following Kubernetes Custom Resource (CR) deploys a multi-tenant Tempo instance.

Note
Jaeger query isn’t tenant-aware and, therefore, isn’t supported in this configuration.

apiVersion: tempo.grafana.com/v1alpha1
kind: TempoStack
metadata:
  name: simplest
spec:
  tenants: {}
  storage:
    secret:
      name: minio-test
      type: s3
  storageSize: 1Gi
  resources:
    total:
      limits:
        memory: 2Gi
        cpu: 2000m

OIDC authentication with static RBAC

On Kubernetes, a multi-tenant Tempo instance uses OIDC authentication and static RBAC authorization defined in the CR. The instance should be accessed through service tempo-simplest-gateway, which handles authentication and authorization. The service exposes Jaeger query API and OpenTelemetry gRPC (OTLP) for trace ingestion. The Jaeger UI can be accessed at http://<exposed gateway service>:8080/api/traces/v1/<tenant-name>/search.

apiVersion: tempo.grafana.com/v1alpha1
kind: TempoStack
metadata:
  name: simplest
spec:
  template:
    queryFrontend:
      jaegerQuery:
        enabled: true
    gateway:
      enabled: true
  storage:
    secret:
      type: s3
      name: minio-test
  storageSize: 200M
  tenants:
    mode: static
    authentication:
      - tenantName: test-oidc
        tenantId: test-oidc
        oidc:
          issuerURL: http://dex.default.svc.cluster.local:30556/dex
          redirectURL: http://tempo-simplest-gateway.default.svc.cluster.local:8080/oidc/test-oidc/callback
          usernameClaim: email
          secret:
            name: oidc-test
    authorization:
      roleBindings:
        - name: 'test'
          roles:
            - read-write
          subjects:
            - kind: user
              name: 'admin@example.com'
      roles:
        - name: read-write
          permissions:
            - read
            - write
          resources:
            - traces
          tenants:
            - test-oidc

The secret oidc-test defines fields clientID, clientSecret and issuerCAPath.
The RBAC gives tenant test-oidc read and write access for traces.

OpenShift

On OpenShift, the authentication and authorization does not require any third-party service dependencies. The authentication uses OpenShift OAuth (the user is redirected to the OpenShift login page) and authorization is handled through SubjectAccessReview (SAR).

The instance should be accessed through service tempo-simplest-gateway, which handles authentication and authorization. The service exposes Jaeger query API and OpenTelemetry gRPC (OTLP) for trace ingestion. The Jaeger UI can be accessed at http://<exposed gateway service>:8080/api/traces/v1/<tenant-name>/search.

apiVersion: tempo.grafana.com/v1alpha1
kind: TempoStack
metadata:
  name: simplest
spec:
  storage:
    secret:
      name: object-storage
      type: s3
  storageSize: 1Gi
  tenants:
    mode: openshift
    authentication:
      - tenantName: dev
        tenantId: '1610b0c3-c509-4592-a256-a1871353dbfa'
      - tenantName: prod
        tenantId: '1610b0c3-c509-4592-a256-a1871353dbfb'
  template:
    gateway:
      enabled: true
    queryFrontend:
      jaegerQuery:
        enabled: true

ClusterRole and ClusterRoleBinding objects have to be created to enable reading and writing the data.

RBAC for reading the data

The following RBAC gives authenticated users access to read trace data for dev and prod tenants.

apiVersion: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1
kind: ClusterRole
metadata:
  name: tempostack-traces-reader
rules:
  - apiGroups:
      - 'tempo.grafana.com'
    resources:
      - dev
      - prod
    resourceNames:
      - traces
    verbs:
      - 'get'
---
apiVersion: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1
kind: ClusterRoleBinding
metadata:
  name: tempostack-traces-reader
roleRef:
  apiGroup: rbac.authorization.k8s.io
  kind: ClusterRole
  name: tempostack-traces-reader
subjects:
  - kind: Group
    apiGroup: rbac.authorization.k8s.io
    name: system:authenticated

RBAC for writing data

The following RBAC gives service account otel-collector write access for trace data for dev tenant.

apiVersion: v1
kind: ServiceAccount
metadata:
  name: otel-collector
  namespace: otel
---
apiVersion: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1
kind: ClusterRole
metadata:
  name: tempostack-traces-write
rules:
  - apiGroups:
      - 'tempo.grafana.com'
    resources:
      - dev
    resourceNames:
      - traces
    verbs:
      - 'create'
---
apiVersion: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1
kind: ClusterRoleBinding
metadata:
  name: tempostack-traces
roleRef:
  apiGroup: rbac.authorization.k8s.io
  kind: ClusterRole
  name: tempostack-traces-write
subjects:
  - kind: ServiceAccount
    name: otel-collector
    namespace: otel

OpenTelemetry collector CR configuration with authentication for dev tenant.

spec:
  serviceAccount: otel-collector
  config: |
    extensions:
      bearertokenauth:
        filename: "/var/run/secrets/kubernetes.io/serviceaccount/token"
    exporters:
      # Export the dev tenant traces to a Tempo instance
      otlp/dev:
        endpoint: tempo-simplest-gateway.tempo.svc.cluster.local:8090
        tls:
          insecure: false
          ca_file: "/var/run/secrets/kubernetes.io/serviceaccount/service-ca.crt"
        auth:
          authenticator: bearertokenauth
        headers:
          X-Scope-OrgID: "dev"