8. Security

8. Security
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By default, the Data Flow server is unsecured and runs on an unencrypted HTTP connection. You can secure your REST endpoints, as well as the Data Flow Dashboard by enabling HTTPS and requiring clients to authenticate.

8.1 Enabling HTTPS

By default, the dashboard, management, and health endpoints use HTTP as a transport. You can switch to HTTPS easily, by adding a certificate to your configuration in application.yml.

server:
  port: 8443                                         
  ssl:
    key-alias: yourKeyAlias                          
    key-store: path/to/keystore                      
    key-store-password: yourKeyStorePassword         
    key-password: yourKeyPassword                    
    trust-store: path/to/trust-store                 
    trust-store-password: yourTrustStorePassword

	As the default port is `9393`, you may choose to change the port to a more common HTTPs-typical port.
	The alias (or name) under which the key is stored in the keystore.
	The path to the keystore file. Classpath resources may also be specified, by using the classpath prefix: `classpath:path/to/keystore`
	The password of the keystore.
	The password of the key.
	The path to the truststore file. Classpath resources may also be specified, by using the classpath prefix: `classpath:path/to/trust-store`
	The password of the trust store.

	Note
	If HTTPS is enabled, it will completely replace HTTP as the protocol over which the REST endpoints and the Data Flow Dashboard interact. Plain HTTP requests will fail - therefore, make sure that you configure your Shell accordingly.

8.1.1 Using Self-Signed Certificates

For testing purposes or during development it might be convenient to create self-signed certificates. To get started, execute the following command to create a certificate:

$ keytool -genkey -alias dataflow -keyalg RSA -keystore dataflow.keystore \
          -validity 3650 -storetype JKS \
          -dname "CN=localhost, OU=Spring, O=Pivotal, L=Kailua-Kona, ST=HI, C=US"  
          -keypass dataflow -storepass dataflow

CN is the only important parameter here. It should match the domain you are trying to access, e.g. localhost.

Then add the following to your application.yml file:

server:
  port: 8443
  ssl:
    enabled: true
    key-alias: dataflow
    key-store: "/your/path/to/dataflow.keystore"
    key-store-type: jks
    key-store-password: dataflow
    key-password: dataflow

This is all that’s needed for the Data Flow Server. Once you start the server, you should be able to access it via https://localhost:8443/. As this is a self-signed certificate, you will hit a warning in your browser, that you need to ignore.

This issue also is relevant for the Data Flow Shell. Therefore additional steps are necessary to make the Shell work with self-signed certificates. First, we need to export the previously created certificate from the keystore:

$ keytool -export -alias dataflow -keystore dataflow.keystore -file dataflow_cert -storepass dataflow

Next, we need to create a truststore which the Shell will use:

$ keytool -importcert -keystore dataflow.truststore -alias dataflow -storepass dataflow -file dataflow_cert -noprompt

Now, you are ready to launch the Data Flow Shell using the following JVM arguments:

$ java -Djavax.net.ssl.trustStorePassword=dataflow \
       -Djavax.net.ssl.trustStore=/path/to/dataflow.truststore \
       -Djavax.net.ssl.trustStoreType=jks \
       -jar spring-cloud-dataflow-shell-1.0.0.RC1.jar

	Tip
	In case you run into trouble establishing a connection via SSL, you can enable additional logging by using and setting the `javax.net.debug` JVM argument to `ssl`.

Don’t forget to target the Data Flow Server with:

dataflow:> dataflow config server https://localhost:8443/

8.2 Enabling Authentication

By default, the REST endpoints (administration, management and health), as well as the Dashboard UI do not require authenticated access. However, authentication can be provided via OAuth 2.0, thus allowing you to also integrate Spring Cloud Data Flow into Single Sign On (SSO) environments. The following 2 OAuth2 Grant Types will be used:

Authorization Code - Used for the GUI (Browser) integration. You will be redirected to your OAuth Service for authentication
Password - Used by the shell (And the REST integration), so you can login using username and password

The REST endpoints are secured via Basic Authentication but will use the Password Grand Type under the covers to authenticate with your OAuth2 service.

	Note
	When authentication is set up, it is strongly recommended to enable HTTPS as well, especially in production environments.

You can turn on authentication by adding the following to application.yml or via environment variables:

security:
  basic:
    enabled: true                                                     
    realm: Spring Cloud Data Flow                                     
  oauth2:                                                             
    client:
      client-id: myclient
      client-secret: mysecret
      access-token-uri: http://127.0.0.1:9999/oauth/token
      user-authorization-uri: http://127.0.0.1:9999/oauth/authorize
    resource:
      user-info-uri: http://127.0.0.1:9999/me

	Must be set to `true` for security to be enabled.
	The realm for Basic authentication
	OAuth Configuration Section

	Note
	As of version 1.0 Spring Cloud Data Flow does not provide finer-grained authorization. Thus, once you are logged in, you have full access to all functionality.

You can verify that basic authentication is working properly using curl:

$ curl -u myusername:mypassword http://localhost:9393/

As a result you should see a list of available REST endpoints.

8.2.1 Authentication and Cloud Foundry

When deploying Spring Cloud Data Flow to Cloud Foundry, we take advantage of the Spring Cloud Single Sign-On Connector, which provides Cloud Foundry specific auto-configuration support for OAuth 2.0 when used in conjunction with the Pivotal Single Sign-On Service.

Simply set security.basic.enabled to true and in Cloud Foundry bind the SSO service to your Data Flow Server app and SSO will be enabled.

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