AWS IRSA requires delicate dance

[james-callahan]

Describe the bug

For AWS IAM roles for service accounts (IRSA) to work, it's important that the .WithCredentials method is never called

loki/vendor/github.com/cortexproject/cortex/pkg/chunk/aws/s3_storage_client.go

Line 140 in 8c1fe88

s3Config = s3Config.WithCredentials(credentials.AnonymousCredentials)

. This means you need to pass an s3 url and dodge the other branches.

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This appears to have been fixed in master of cortex https://github.com/cortexproject/cortex/blob/d775e195f186fe4e2407ca2c643bf7f2350bd6cd/pkg/chunk/aws/s3_storage_client.go#L190. So fix should be to simply update the dependency.

[chancez]

I'm using IRSA just fine, all you have to to is specify the S3 URL like so:

s3://us-west-2/my-bucket-name

For dynamodb_url:

dynamodb://us-west-2

Depending on what your using to deploy Loki, you may need to also set the fsGroup to the token is mounted with the correct permissions for Loki to read it.

[james-callahan]

you have to to is specify the S3 URL like so:

s3://us-west-2/my-bucket-name

yes. if you specify e.g. bucketnames it all breaks.

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This issue has been automatically marked as stale because it has not had any activity in the past 30 days. It will be closed in 7 days if no further activity occurs. Thank you for your contributions.

[james-callahan]

I wonder if this was fixed with #3267

[james-callahan]

???? this was commented on. why did stale bot close it?

[owen-d]

@james-callahan Can you verify if this is still an issue now that we've updated our Cortex dependency and reopen this? I believe this should be fixed.

[james-callahan]

@james-callahan Can you verify if this is still an issue now that we've updated our Cortex dependency and reopen this? I believe this should be fixed.

This is still a problem. Starting up without s3 set in the storage_config when using IRSA gives:
level=error ts=2021-06-23T12:47:02.103948575Z caller=log.go:106 msg="error running loki" err="WebIdentityErr: failed to retrieve credentials\ncaused by: RequestError: send request failed\ncaused by: Post \"https://sts.dummy.amazonaws.com/\": dial tcp: lookup sts.dummy.amazonaws.com on 172.20.0.10:53: no such host\nerror creating index client\ngit.luolix.top/cortexproject/cortex/pkg/chunk/storage.NewStore\n\t/src/loki/vendor/github.com/cortexproject/cortex/pkg/chunk/storage/factory.go:179\ngit.luolix.top/grafana/loki/pkg/loki.(*Loki).initStore\n\t/src/loki/pkg/loki/modules.go:319\ngit.luolix.top/cortexproject/cortex/pkg/util/modules.(*Manager).initModule\n\t/src/loki/vendor/github.com/cortexproject/cortex/pkg/util/modules/modules.go:103\ngit.luolix.top/cortexproject/cortex/pkg/util/modules.(*Manager).InitModuleServices\n\t/src/loki/vendor/github.com/cortexproject/cortex/pkg/util/modules/modules.go:75\ngit.luolix.top/grafana/loki/pkg/loki.(*Loki).Run\n\t/src/loki/pkg/loki/loki.go:220\nmain.main\n\t/src/loki/cmd/loki/main.go:132\nruntime.main\n\t/usr/local/go/src/runtime/proc.go:204\nruntime.goexit\n\t/usr/local/go/src/runtime/asm_amd64.s:1374\nerror initialising module: store\ngit.luolix.top/cortexproject/cortex/pkg/util/modules.(*Manager).initModule\n\t/src/loki/vendor/github.com/cortexproject/cortex/pkg/util/modules/modules.go:105\ngit.luolix.top/cortexproject/cortex/pkg/util/modules.(*Manager).InitModuleServices\n\t/src/loki/vendor/github.com/cortexproject/cortex/pkg/util/modules/modules.go:75\ngit.luolix.top/grafana/loki/pkg/loki.(*Loki).Run\n\t/src/loki/pkg/loki/loki.go:220\nmain.main\n\t/src/loki/cmd/loki/main.go:132\nruntime.main\n\t/usr/local/go/src/runtime/proc.go:204\nruntime.goexit\n\t/usr/local/go/src/runtime/asm_amd64.s:1374"

However, it's not quite as bad as it was: bucketnames is now at least usable.
Will be updating with:

--- a/applications/loki/files/config.yaml
+++ b/applications/loki/files/config.yaml
@@ -108,7 +108,8 @@ server:
   http_server_write_timeout: 1m
 storage_config:
   aws:
-    s3: s3:///${LOKI_STORAGE_CONFIG_AWS_BUCKETNAMES}
+    s3: s3:///
+    bucketnames: ${LOKI_STORAGE_CONFIG_AWS_BUCKETNAMES}
     sse_encryption: true
   boltdb_shipper:
     shared_store: aws

[Fantaztig]

This issue still applies to the s3 config of the loki ruler, using bucketnames + endpoint doesn't work with IRSA while specifying the exact s3 url works fine.

Part of the error message is (for making it easier to find this issue and solution when encountering the problem):

WebIdentityErr: failed to retrieve credentials\ncaused by: SerializationError: failed to unmarshal error message\n\tstatus code: 405, request id: \ncaused by: UnmarshalError: failed to unmarshal error message

[nicon89]

I'm getting same error in me-central-1.
Is it because there's no STS endpoint in this region?