OAuth proxy to static dashboard

[gberche]

The static-creds-broker is designed for returning credentials of existing services already provisionned (e.g. an http cache service configured for a given application). Such existing services might already expose UIs to manage the service.

The static-creds-broker responsibility could therefore be to bridge authentication between CF UAA-based authentication and the remote existing service authentication.

The remote service authentication could be expecting:

• HTTP basic auth (auth) + HTTPS (confidentiality)

The static-creds broker would then act as an HTTP gateway between the app team identitied in CF and the legacy service UI.

Possible yml expression:

# security properties could be removed, if it's configured in the manifest.yml through environment variable SECURITY_USER_NAME and SECURITY_USER_PASSWORD
security:
    user:
        password: <broker_password>
services:  
    CACHE:
        DESCRIPTION: My existing service
        METADATA:
            LONGDESCRIPTION: A long description for my service
        CREDENTIALS:
            HOSTNAME: http://company.com
        DASHBOARD_GATEWAY:
            url: https://login:[email protected]
        PLAN:
            PLAN1:
                NAME: cache1
                CREDENTIALS:
                    URI: http://mydev-api.org/cache1
                    ACCESS_KEY: AZERT23456664DFDSFSDFDSF
                 DASHBOARD_GATEWAY:
                    url: https://login:[email protected]/cache1
                 HOSTNAME: http://prod.company.com
            PLAN2:
                NAME: cache2
                CREDENTIALS:
                    URI: http://mydev-api.org/cache2
                    ACCESS_KEY: SFFGSFZSF
                 DASHBOARD_GATEWAY:
                    url: https://login:[email protected]/cache2
                 HOSTNAME: http://prod.company.com

In terms of supporting flexible authentication and request mapping the spring-cloud-netflix routing could be a powerfull approachn with rich, expressive routing, filtering ... rules that would be embbeded in the static-creds subtree as sub elements of the DASHBOARD_GATEWAY part.