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☂️ support for external authentication via identity-aware proxies (a.k.a. "header-based auth") #11901

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This is an umbrella issue to track support for external authentication via identity-aware proxies ("header-based auth") such as Google Cloud IAP, Microsoft Entra Application Proxy, and AWS Verified Access.

At a high-level, this includes the following changes:

  • Adding support for Coder to read and validate a JWT from a configurable HTTP header
  • Authenticating users from configurable claims in the above JWT.
  • Associated refactoring, testing, and other cleanup as required.

RFC: https://www.notion.so/coderhq/External-Authentication-via-Identity-Aware-Proxies-a-k-a-header-based-auth-2217b65064b54f06a68258729db5dd76?pvs=4

Must haves:

  • Write an RFC for external authentication via identity-aware proxies #11902
  • header-based auth: Refactor httpmw.APIKey middleware to expose an interface
  • header-based auth: Implement enterprise httpmw.JWTAuth to authenticate users via JWT claims
  • header-based auth: Integrate enterprise httpmw.JWTAuth into enterprise/coderd
  • header-based auth: Add a /debug endpoint to dump JWT claims
  • header-based auth: Add documentation regarding authentication via identity-aware proxies

Nice to have:

  • header-based auth: Add support for automatically creating users based on JWT authentication claims
  • header-based auth: Create a path to migrate existing users from either built-in or OIDC authentication to "proxy" authentication.

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