Request Authentication Configurator

Platform:

Ubuntu
24.04
Channel Revision Published Runs on
latest/edge 1 04 Jun 2026
Ubuntu 24.04
juju deploy request-authentication-configurator --channel edge

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  • user-id-header-name | string

    Configures the name of the header whose value represents the user identity, for the created RequestAuthentications to pass the respective JWT claim representing the user identity to downstream applications as such a header.

    Any argument that can be used as value for the header key in outputClaimToHeaders of RequestAuthentication — that is any valid HTTP header field name — is acceptable: https://istio.io/latest/docs/reference/config/security/request_authentication/#JWTRule-output_claim_to_headers