Vitess uses its own mechanism for managing users and their permissions through VTGate. As a result, the CREATE USER.... and GRANT... statements will not work if sent through VTGate.

Authentication #

The Vitess VTGate component takes care of authentication for requests so we will need to add any users that should have access to the Keyspaces via the command-line options to VTGate.

VTGate supports multiple types of authentication:

• none - No authentication is performed. This is the default.
• static - File-based authentication
• ldap - LDAP-based authentication
• clientcert - TLS client certificate-based authentication
• vault - Vault-based authentication