User Management and Authentication

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:


User Management and Authentication