`AssumeRoleWithWebIdentity` always fetched a provider's discovery document from `<provider url>/.well-known/openid-configuration`, so an identity provider that issues tokens naming a public issuer while serving its metadata and keys on a cluster-internal path could not be used: reaching it meant relaxing the endpoint checks for every registered provider. `--oidc-discovery-url` moves that one fetch to an operator-named endpoint, which is how keys can be looked up over an optimized private path while the tokens themselves stay verifiable from the public internet against the issuer alone, as the JWT spec requires.
The flag takes `<provider url>=<discovery url>` pairs, can be repeated once per provider, and is also read from `VGW_IAM_OIDC_DISCOVERY_URLS` as a comma-separated list; the Helm chart exposes the same list as `iamServer.oidc.discoveryUrls`. The discovery URL is fetched exactly as written, so it must carry the `/.well-known/openid-configuration` path when the provider serves it there. A malformed pair is rejected at startup rather than at the first assume-role call.
Only the fetch moves. The provider URL is still what a token's `iss` claim is matched against, the fetched document's own `issuer` field must still equal it, and the key set still comes from the `jwks_uri` that document publishes. A configured discovery endpoint is named by the operator at startup rather than by a request, so it and the `jwks_uri` it publishes waive the private-address check for that provider's fetch chain only, without `--oidc-allow-private-endpoints` and its far broader effect on every other provider. Transport rules are unchanged: a plaintext discovery URL still requires `--oidc-allow-insecure-transport`.
Thumbprint auto-fetch follows the override and pins the discovery endpoint's certificate chain, since that is the host every later fetch is verified against.
Closes#2364
`AssumeRoleWithWebIdentity` only ever trusted an `OIDC` provider reachable over verified `https`, at a publicly routable address, on the implicit `:443`. That posture is right for an internet-facing IdP but rejects every address an internal one can have, so a `SPIFFE/SPIRE` OIDC discovery provider in the same cluster — or as a sidecar in the same pod — could never be registered, let alone verified against, and no setting could express "this private address is the IdP".
Two opt-in flags on `versitygw iam`, both off by default:
`--oidc-allow-private-endpoints`
Permit a provider `Url` resolving to a loopback/private/link-local address, and an explicit port. Transport is unchanged: still `https`, still fully verified (a self-signed in-cluster cert is trusted the way AWS documents, through `ThumbprintList`).
`--oidc-allow-insecure-transport`
Additionally permit plaintext `http` provider URLs, discovery/JWKS endpoints and redirects, and drop TLS verification (`thumbprint` pinning included) for `https` ones.
Both apply uniformly to the thumbprint auto-fetch at `CreateOpenIDConnectProvider` time and to the discovery-document plus `JWKS` fetch at `AssumeRoleWithWebIdentity` time. Neither weakens anything past the endpoint: signature verification, issuer matching, audience and trust policy evaluation are untouched, and the DNS-resolve-once/dial-the-resolved-IP shape stays in place so a rebind still cannot redirect a connection.
An `http` provider keeps its scheme in its stored `Url`, `ARN` and `iss` matching, rather than being stripped like an `https` one — otherwise `"http://host"` and `"https://host"` would collapse onto a single ARN and storage key and each could satisfy the other's trust policy. It also stores an empty `ThumbprintList` rather than failing: a plaintext provider presents no certificate to thumbprint.
Helm: `iamServer.oidc.{allowPrivateEndpoints,allowInsecureTransport}`, alongside `disableThumbprintAutofetch` moved into the same block (the flat `iamServer.disableOidcThumbprintAutofetch` stays honored). Chart `0.4.1 -> 0.4.2`.
The WebUI's create-provider form no longer rejects `http` URLs and ports client-side; it cannot see the service's settings, so those two rules are left to the server, whose error surfaces as a toast like any other.
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Ben McClelland