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Work in progress — exploratory branch. The Helm chart, backend code, website code, CLI, registration service, and integration-test page objects have all been rewired against Authelia + lldap, but the cluster has not yet been deployed end-to-end and tests have not been run green. Pushing now so the architecture is reviewable.

What changed

Deployment (kubernetes/)

  • New templates: authelia-deployment/service/configmap, lldap-deployment/service, lldap-bootstrap-configmap (Helm-templated user/group lists) + lldap-bootstrap-job (idempotent Job that creates users via lldap's GraphQL API), registration-service-deployment/service.
  • Removed: all keycloak-* templates and the keycloak/keycloakify/ source tree.
  • _urls.tpl: loculus.autheliaUrl + loculus.autheliaUrlInternal + loculus.registrationUrl replace loculus.keycloakUrl.
  • _config-processor.tpl: substitutes lldapAdminPassword, autheliaSessionSecret, autheliaStorageEncryptionKey, autheliaJwtSecret, autheliaOidcHmacSecret, autheliaOidcIssuerPrivateKey.
  • values.yaml / values.schema.json: drop keycloak-*/orcid secrets, add lldap-secrets + authelia-secrets, new auth.bundledLdap.enabled toggle and auth.ldap.* block (host, port, base/user/group DN, user filter, bind DN). New images.registrationService, resources.{authelia,lldap,registration-service}. Removed runDevelopmentKeycloakDatabase and resources.keycloak.
  • Ingress: authentication.<host> now routes to Authelia; new register.<host> rule routes to the registration service in bundled mode.
  • Bulk URL substitution in silo/ingest/autoapprove/ena-submission/preprocessing configs so they point at Authelia's token endpoint. (The YAML key name keycloak_token_url is still shipped to those Python services — that rename is follow-up work.)
  • helm lint + helm template both succeed.

Backend (backend/)

  • KeycloakAdapter.kt removed. New UserDirectory.kt is a Spring Data LDAP component bound to loculus.ldap.* properties; exposes getUsersWithName(username) returning a fresh LoculusUser domain type (username, email, firstName, lastName, organization).
  • SecurityConfig.getRoles now reads from the JWT groups claim (Authelia) instead of realm_access.roles (Keycloak).
  • SeqSetCitationsController + GroupManagementPreconditionValidator switched to UserDirectory. transformKeycloakUserToAuthorProfiletransformUserToAuthorProfile reading LoculusUser.
  • FilesController: switched org.apache.http.HttpStatus (previously pulled in transitively by keycloak-admin-client) to Spring's HttpStatus. Apache httpclient kept as a testImplementation for the existing Files endpoint integration tests.
  • build.gradle: dropped org.keycloak:keycloak-admin-client, added spring-boot-starter-data-ldap; lock file regenerated.
  • ./gradlew compileKotlin compileTestKotlin is green.

Website (website/)

  • KeycloakClientManagerOidcClientManager; issuer URL now comes from serverSide.autheliaUrl directly (no realm path).
  • runtimeConfig.ts: serverSide schema now has autheliaUrl, autheliaPublicUrl, registrationUrl; backendKeycloakClientSecret removed.
  • getAuthUrl: scope changed to openid profile email groups offline_access; account page now links to the Authelia portal root.
  • API-documentation page labelled Authelia; /loculus-info returns hosts.authelia instead of hosts.keycloak.
  • astro check + tsc --noEmit both green.

CLI (cli/)

  • Authelia does not support OAuth2 Resource Owner Password Credentials, so the CLI's username+password login is gone. Replaced with the device authorization grant (RFC 8628): discovery → device-code request → browser prompt → polling. Refresh tokens used opportunistically.
  • InstanceConfig: keycloak_realm/keycloak_client_id replaced by oidc_client_id (default loculus-cli); authelia_url property reads hosts.authelia from /loculus-info.
  • loculus instance add flags updated accordingly.

Registration service (registration-service/)

  • New FastAPI app + Jinja form (username, email, first_name, last_name, organization, password, confirm_password, accept_terms) + minimal CSS. Calls lldap's GraphQL admin API via the admin login. Health endpoint, success-redirect to Authelia.
  • New CI workflow registration-service-image.yml modelled on preprocessing-dummy-image.yml; old keycloakify-image.yml and keycloakify-test.yml deleted; update-argocd-metadata.yml waits on the new image.

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theosanderson and others added 9 commits May 13, 2026 11:22
First slice of the Keycloak→Authelia migration: lldap deployment+service,
bootstrap configmap (groups + users including the test accounts) and
bootstrap Job that idempotently creates users via lldap GraphQL. Authelia
configmap with the OIDC clients (backend-client for the website,
loculus-cli for device-code CLI flow).

Still missing: Authelia deployment+service, secrets, ingress, registration
service, values.yaml/schema changes, removal of Keycloak templates, and
all the backend/website/CLI/integration-test changes downstream.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Add Authelia deployment+service, lldap deployment+service+bootstrap,
  registration-service deployment+service (gated on auth.bundledLdap.enabled).
- Drop Keycloak templates and the Keycloak DB standin.
- _urls.tpl: replace loculus.keycloakUrl with loculus.autheliaUrl and a new
  loculus.registrationUrl.
- _config-processor.tpl: substitute lldapAdminPassword, autheliaSessionSecret,
  storageEncryptionKey, jwtSecret, oidcHmacSecret, oidcIssuerPrivateKey.
- _common-metadata.tpl: publish autheliaUrl/registrationUrl in runtime
  config; drop Keycloak-flavoured banner condition.
- loculus-backend.yaml: switch JWT issuer/jwk-set-uri to Authelia; replace
  --keycloak.* args with --loculus.ldap.* (host, base/user/group DN, bind).
- loculus-website-config.yaml: serverSide now exposes autheliaUrl +
  registrationUrl; drop backend-keycloak client secret.
- ingressroute.yaml: route the authentication subdomain to authelia and
  add a register.<host> rule for the registration-service.
- values.yaml/values.schema.json: drop keycloak/orcid secrets, add
  lldap-secrets and authelia-secrets, add bundledLdap+ldap blocks, swap
  resources.keycloak for authelia/lldap/registration-service.
- bulk URL substitution across silo/ingest/autoapprove/ena-submission/
  preprocessing configs (token endpoint now Authelia; the YAML key name
  "keycloak_token_url" still ships to those services - real rename comes
  in the Python/Kotlin work below).

Helm lint + template both succeed. None of the downstream code yet knows
how to handle the new env shape; tests will fail.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
- New registration-service/ directory: FastAPI app, Jinja form template, CSS,
  Dockerfile, requirements.txt, README. Calls lldap's GraphQL admin API
  through the privileged admin login.
- New registration-service-image.yml workflow modelled on
  preprocessing-dummy-image.yml.
- Delete /keycloak/keycloakify/ tree and its two CI workflows.
- update-argocd-metadata.yml: wait on the registration-service image
  instead of the keycloakify image.
- build-arm-images.yaml + dependabot.yml: swap keycloakify references for
  registration-service.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Rename utils/KeycloakClientManager.ts → OidcClientManager.ts and
  derive the issuer URL from serverSide.autheliaUrl instead of
  composing keycloakUrl + realmPath.
- realmPath collapsed to empty string (Authelia has no realms;
  discovery lives at /.well-known/openid-configuration).
- types/runtimeConfig.ts: drop backendKeycloakClientSecret, replace
  keycloakUrl with autheliaUrl + autheliaPublicUrl + registrationUrl
  in the serverSide config.
- clientMetadata.ts: drop the secret (Authelia client is public with
  PKCE; no token_endpoint client auth).
- getAuthUrl.ts: ask for scopes Authelia issues (openid profile email
  groups offline_access); account/profile page now points at the
  Authelia portal root.
- api-documentation page: label switches to Authelia.
- loculus-info: hosts.authelia replaces hosts.keycloak.
- middleware/authMiddleware.ts: rename log strings + function name.
- vitest.setup.ts: matching test config shape.

`astro check` and `tsc --noEmit` both green.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Delete service/KeycloakAdapter.kt and the keycloak-admin-client gradle
  dependency.
- New service/UserDirectory.kt: Spring Data LDAP-based replacement bound
  to loculus.ldap.* properties (host, port, base/user/group DN, bind
  credentials). Exposes getUsersWithName returning a fresh LoculusUser
  domain type (username, email, firstName, lastName, organization).
- SeqSetCitationsController and GroupManagementPreconditionValidator
  now consume UserDirectory; transformUserToAuthorProfile reads from
  LoculusUser instead of UserRepresentation.
- SecurityConfig: read roles from the JWT `groups` claim (Authelia)
  instead of `realm_access.roles` (Keycloak).
- FilesController: switch HttpStatus.SC_TEMPORARY_REDIRECT (Apache
  HTTP, previously pulled in transitively) to Spring's HttpStatus.
  Apache httpclient kept as testImplementation for the existing
  Files endpoint integration tests.
- application.properties test config: loculus.ldap.* placeholders
  replace keycloak.*.
- Test files: KeycloakAdapter / UserRepresentation refactored to
  UserDirectory / LoculusUser.
- gradle.lockfile regenerated.

`./gradlew compileKotlin compileTestKotlin` is green.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Authelia's OIDC does not support the Resource Owner Password Credentials
(password) grant, so the CLI's previous username+password login no longer
works. This rewires it onto the device authorization grant (RFC 8628):

- auth/client.py: device_authorization_endpoint discovery + polling
  loop. Tokens still cached in the system keyring keyed by the
  authentication base URL and the JWT subject (preferred_username if
  present). Refresh tokens used opportunistically.
- commands/auth.py: drop --username / --password flags; `loculus auth
  login` is now a single interactive command that prints/opens the
  verification URL and waits for the user to complete sign-in.
- config.py: drop keycloak_realm / keycloak_client_id; add
  oidc_client_id (defaults to "loculus-cli"); expose authelia_url
  property in place of keycloak_url.
- commands/instance.py: matching argument rename.
- instance_info.py: hosts.authelia is the new key, served by the
  website's /loculus-info endpoint.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
…n-service

- auth.page.ts: target the registration-service form by data-testid
  (username, email, first-name, last-name, organization, password,
  confirm-password, accept-terms, register-submit). Login expects the
  Authelia username/password form; error message regex accepts Authelia
  text variants.
- my-account.page.ts + edit-account.spec.ts: rename Keycloak-specific
  helper, drop /realms/loculus assertion (Authelia hosts its portal at
  the auth root), and accept the new page title.
- backend/authentication.spec.ts: rename a test that mentioned Keycloak
  by name.

These match the shape of the new Helm/code; tests still need the cluster
to be deployed and the registration link in the Authelia template wired
to the registration service before they can pass end-to-end.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
- 05/07 PlantUML sources updated (SVGs are pre-rendered and will refresh
  when next regenerated).
- 05_building_block_view: log-in references swapped to Authelia.
- 09_architecture_decisions: new section explains the rationale for
  replacing Keycloak with Authelia + lldap + registration-service, the
  BYO-LDAP mode, and the move from ROPC to device-code in the CLI.

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This PR may be related to the following open issues (by replacing Keycloak entirely):

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theosanderson and others added 10 commits May 13, 2026 12:12
- authelia-deployment: switch from --config arg to AUTHELIA_CONFIG env;
  authelia/authelia image's s6-overlay entrypoint refuses leading "--"
  args.
- lldap bootstrap script: login body uses `username` (lldap 0.6 schema)
  not `name`. Tolerate non-JSON error responses so 4xx with a text/plain
  body reports the real reason instead of a JSONDecodeError stack trace.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Authelia's OIDC provider can't inject fixed `groups` claims into
client_credentials tokens (its claims_policies anchor to authentication-
backend attributes, which are empty for machine clients), so the previous
ROPC-password flow used by preprocessing/ingest/ena-submission services
can't be replaced 1:1 with an OIDC equivalent.

This commit takes a simpler path: a static pre-shared header.

- backend/auth/ServiceTokenAuthenticationFilter.kt: new
  `OncePerRequestFilter` reads `X-Service-Token`, matches against four
  configured tokens (preprocessing_pipeline / external_metadata_updater /
  insdc_ingest_user / backend), and on a match sets a
  ServiceTokenAuthentication with the right SimpleGrantedAuthority set.
  Wired into the security chain ahead of the JWT resource server.
- backend/auth/AuthenticatedUser.kt: now constructed from either a
  JwtAuthenticationToken or a ServiceTokenAuthentication. The
  HandlerMethodArgumentResolver delegates to whichever is present.
- backend/config/SecurityConfig.kt: addFilterBefore for the new filter.
- loculus-backend.yaml: pipe the four service-accounts secret values
  into LOCULUS_SERVICE_TOKENS_* env vars (Spring relaxed-binding maps
  to loculus.service-tokens.<key>).
- preprocessing-nextclade/backend.py: replace get_jwt() with
  auth_headers() that returns {"X-Service-Token": <token>}.
- preprocessing-dummy/main.py: get_jwt() now returns the token directly
  (kept as a one-line shim for callsites); new service_token_header().
- ingest/scripts/loculus_client.py: drop JWT fetch + Bearer header,
  send X-Service-Token directly.
- ena-deposition/call_loculus.py: same swap.

Backend compileKotlin + compileTestKotlin green.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
- backend: ktlint formatted ServiceTokenAuthenticationFilter, SecurityConfig,
  AuthenticatedUser, FilesController, UserDirectory, AuthorsEndpointsTest.
- backend: RequestAuthorization (test helper) now emits the `groups` claim
  instead of `realm_access.roles` so unit tests match the new
  SecurityConfig.getRoles shape.
- cli: black-format auth/client.py; type the response dict so mypy is happy.
- website: getAuthBaseUrl / getUrlForAccountPage are now sync (drop unused
  async); GET in loculus-info no longer async; callers updated.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Inline the OIDC issuer RSA key directly from values.yaml into the
  configmap (via `index $.Values.secrets ... | nindent 14`) so the
  config-processor doesn't have to substitute a multi-line PEM at
  inconsistent indentation. Drops the `[[autheliaOidcIssuerPrivateKey]]`
  substitution from _config-processor.tpl and the unused secret file
  mount from authelia-deployment.yaml.
- Cookie domain strips port from $.Values.host so values like
  "localhost:3000" become "localhost".
- authelia_url in local mode now uses the same host the website is on
  (rather than the localHost IP), so the cookie scope check is at
  least closer to satisfied.

Known remaining blocker for local k3d e2e: Authelia 4.39 requires the
cookie domain to contain a period (or be an IP) AND requires the
authelia_url to use https://. A "localhost"-flavoured dev cluster
can't satisfy both. We'll need to either switch the dev host to a
periodful domain like "loculus.test" plus self-signed TLS through
traefik, or pin to a more permissive Authelia version. Flagged in
PR description; CI deploy will hit the same wall.

CLI lint:
- src/loculus_cli/auth/client.py: ruff E501 fixes; mypy now uses
  dict[str, Any] for the OIDC token response shape.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
… OIDC metadata

Three tied changes that together get Authelia happy:

1. dev host moves from "localhost:3000" to "loculus.localhost:3000" with
   subdomainSeparator "." so the cookie domain is "loculus.localhost" — a
   valid period-bearing domain per Authelia 4.39's strict check. Browsers
   resolve *.localhost to 127.0.0.1 automatically, so no /etc/hosts edits
   are needed.
2. deploy.py maps host port 8443 → traefik 443, so the website can be
   accessed at "http://loculus.localhost:3000" but Authelia is exposed via
   "https://authentication.loculus.localhost:8443". k3d's traefik already
   ships with a default self-signed cert (the `k3s-serving` secret in
   kube-system), satisfying the https-scheme check on `authelia_url`.
3. OidcClientManager (website) no longer calls `Issuer.discover`. The
   discovery doc 500s when the server-side request hits the in-cluster
   Authelia service directly (Authelia can't infer the issuer URL without
   X-Forwarded-Proto headers, which only traefik sets). We construct the
   Issuer from a fixed metadata table — internal endpoints for backend
   communication, public endpoints (the 8443 URL) for redirects.

Authelia container Running 1/1 after the redeploy with no restarts.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
`helm lint` (without a values file) leaves $.Values.host undefined, so
splitList errored with "wrong type for value; expected string; got
interface {}". Default to "" before splitting; rendering with a real
values file is unchanged.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
# Conflicts:
#	kubernetes/loculus/templates/keycloak-database-service.yaml
#	kubernetes/loculus/templates/keycloak-database-standin.yaml
- preprocessing/nextclade: ruff dropped the now-unused `jwt` import.
- website/OidcClientManager.ts: `getClient` kept async for callsite
  compatibility (callers `await` it); silence the new
  `@typescript-eslint/require-await` for that one method. Drop the
  `error as unknown as string` cast — use `String(error)`. Prettier-rerun
  trimmed the redundant per-line `naming-convention` disables.
- registration-service: cap email at 254 chars and tighten the regex to
  single-char classes ({1,N} bounds) before matching. Removes a CodeQL
  "polynomial regex on user-controlled data" finding.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The new ServiceTokenAuthenticationFilter runs after Spring's CsrfFilter,
so an X-Service-Token POST from the preprocessing/ingest services was
rejected with 403 (MissingCsrfTokenException) before the request ever
reached my auth filter.

Loculus is a JWT/header-authenticated API — every request is authenticated
from scratch, no session cookie — so CSRF protection has no purchase and
disabling it matches the security model.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
…us tests

CodeQL flagged the bare `csrf.disable()` as a security regression. The
right idiom for a stateless API is to also set the session creation
policy to STATELESS, which lets the security chain skip session creation
and CSRF enforcement together. The disable is annotated with a codeql
suppression comment justifying it (header-based bearer/token auth, no
session cookies).

Knock-on test fixes: the modifying-request branch of
expectUnauthorizedResponse asserted 403, because the CSRF filter used to
return Forbidden for POSTs lacking a CSRF token before the OAuth2
resource server got a chance to respond. With CSRF disabled, those same
requests now correctly return 401 with the Bearer challenge — which is
what the test names already claimed they expected. Helper collapsed to
a single 401 path. RequestUploadEndpointTest's "request without
authentication" likewise rewritten to assert 401.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
CSRF protection is intentionally disabled in SecurityConfig (stateless,
header-authenticated API). Inline `// codeql[...]` suppression comments
aren't honored by GitHub's CodeQL action, so exclude the rule via a
config-file referenced from the analyze workflow.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
@theosanderson theosanderson added the preview Triggers a deployment to argocd label May 13, 2026
- Dev host moves to loculus.test (rather than .localhost) so cluster pods
  can route Authelia traffic via CoreDNS to traefik; glibc hardcodes
  *.localhost to 127.0.0.1 inside containers, blocking that path.
- Playwright host-resolver-rules maps *.loculus.test → 127.0.0.1 so
  developers/CI don't need /etc/hosts entries on the runner.
- Authelia config: a single fixed /auth/callback redirect_uri replaces
  the previous wildcard list — Authelia requires exact matches.
- Website OIDC client: generate proper PKCE (code_verifier +
  code_challenge S256), encode the return URL plus the verifier into
  the state parameter so the callback handler can resume the navigation
  and finish the token exchange. Strip query string from the
  callback's redirect_uri before token exchange (must match the
  original).
- Custom http_options on the openid-client adds X-Forwarded-* headers
  so Authelia derives the correct issuer URL on the internal token call.
- lldap bootstrap rewired to use lldap's own /app/bootstrap.sh as a
  postStart hook (OPAQUE password setting works there); custom Python
  job dropped. service-account passwords lengthened ≥ 8 chars to clear
  lldap's password validation.
- CoreDNS NodeHosts patched to route *.loculus.test to the traefik
  ClusterIP so SSR-side calls to authentication.loculus.test reach
  Authelia via traefik's TLS termination.
- ingressroute.yaml: authentication.loculus.test and
  register.loculus.test ingresses now render in local mode too (were
  previously gated on environment=server).
- deploy.py: host-port 8443 → traefik:443.
- integration-tests/auth.page.ts: handle Authelia's OIDC consent screen
  (best-effort click of the "Accept" button); pre-seed the readonly
  fixture user in lldap so login works without OPAQUE-from-Python.

Local progress: Authelia 1/1, full website→Authelia OAuth flow now
completes the authorize step. Token exchange, consent dismissal and
the "Welcome to Loculus" post-login check still need debugging — but
the foundation is in place.

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theosanderson and others added 9 commits May 13, 2026 18:04
…site

Authelia 4.39 rejects http:// redirect_uris for public clients ("http is
only allowed for confidential clients or hosts with suffix 'localhost'"),
and our dev/CI runs the website on http://loculus.test:3000. Switch the
backend-client to confidential:

- authelia-configmap.yaml: backend-client is now `public: false` with a
  PBKDF2-SHA512 PHC-hashed client_secret (substituted from
  authelia-secrets/backendClientSecretHash), require_pkce: true, S256.
  token_endpoint_auth_method: client_secret_basic.
- _config-processor.tpl: pipe backendClientSecretHash AND the matching
  plaintext (backendClientSecretPlain) through the substitution layer.
  The hash goes into Authelia's configuration.yml; the plaintext goes
  into the website's runtime_config.json so openid-client can include it
  in the token exchange.
- values.yaml: authelia-secrets gains both the plaintext and the hash
  for the dev secret "loculus-dev-client-secret". Operators rotate both
  together in production.
- loculus-website-config.yaml: serverSide.oidcClientSecret added; the
  config-processor injects the plaintext.
- website/types/runtimeConfig.ts: oidcClientSecret required in
  serverConfig.
- website/utils/clientMetadata.ts: token_endpoint_auth_method is now
  client_secret_basic; client_secret comes from runtime config.
- vitest.setup.ts: matching dummy.

Local readonly setup still flaky — the cluster keeps a stale Authelia
JWKS-issuer error and a 404 console message that aren't yet root-caused.
Commits incremental until those are unblocked.

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