feat(talos): authenticate kube-apiserver against ZITADEL #87

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rock merged 1 commits from feat/apiserver-zitadel-oidc into main 2026-11-01 00:01:07 +00:00
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rock 04af9f15c3 feat(talos): authenticate kube-apiserver against ZITADEL
The apiserver's live OIDC config still pointed at
https://authentik.riotpiao.com/application/o/kubernetes/. Authentik now runs
zero pods, so that issuer cannot be discovered and every attempt to login with
a token instead of a client certificate fails. The template itself carried no
OIDC block at all, so a render would have removed the stale config rather than
replace it.

Add the ZITADEL issuer, the `kubernetes` client id, and the groups/username
claims. Three details had to be verified against a real token first:

1. The issuer is https://zitadel.riotpiao.com with no trailing slash and no
   /application/o/<app>/ suffix. That suffix belonged to the Authentik scheme;
   the apiserver compares `iss` by exact string equality.
2. ZITADEL does NOT put profile/email claims in the id_token by default, so
   `oidc-username-claim: email` resolved to nothing. idTokenUserinfoAssertion is
   now enabled on the `kubernetes` application.
3. ZITADEL asserts roles as a nested urn claim the apiserver cannot read. The
   `groupsClaim` action (created alongside this change) mirrors the bare role
   names into a flat `groups` claim.

Verified with a full PKCE authorization-code flow against this client: the
id_token carries iss=https://zitadel.riotpiao.com, email, preferred_username and
groups=[homelab-admins, ...]. With oidc-groups-prefix=oidc: that maps to the
existing ClusterRoleBinding homelab-admin-oidc, which grants cluster-admin.

The issuer hostname is pinned in extraHostEntries because the apiserver's static
pod resolves through the node's DNS, not cluster CoreDNS; the ingress
LoadBalancer serves the publicly-trusted Let's Encrypt wildcard certificate.

Client-certificate auth is unchanged, so a wrong value degrades OIDC logins
without locking anyone out.
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