## About the changes
When edge is configured to automatically generate tokens, it requires
the token to be present in all unleash instances.
It's behind a flag which enables us to turn it on on a case by case
scenario.
The risk of this implementation is that we'd be adding load to the
database in the middleware that evaluates tokens (which are present in
mostly all our API calls. We only query when the token is missing but
because the /client and /frontend endpoints which will be the affected
ones are high throughput, we want to be extra careful to avoid DDoSing
ourselves
## Alternatives:
One alternative would be that we merge the two endpoints into one.
Currently, Edge does the following:
If the token is not valid, it tries to create a token using a service
account token and /api/admin/create-token endpoint. Then it uses the
token generated (which is returned from the prior endpoint) to query
/api/frontend. What if we could call /api/frontend with the same service
account we use to create the token? It may sound risky but if the same
application holding the service account token with permission to create
a token, can call /api/frontend via the generated token, shouldn't it be
able to call the endpoint directly?
The purpose of the token is authentication and authorization. With the
two tokens we are authenticating the same app with 2 different
authorization scopes, but because it's the same app we are
authenticating, can't we just use one token and assume that the app has
both scopes?
If the service account already has permissions to create a token and
then use that token for further actions, allowing it to directly call
/api/frontend does not necessarily introduce new security risks. The
only risk is allowing the app to generate new tokens. Which leads to the
third alternative: should we just remove this option from edge?
If apiTokens are enabled breaks middleware chain with a 401 if no token
is found for requests to client and frontend apis. Previously the
middleware allowed the chain to process.
Removes the regex search for multiple slashes, and instead configures
the apiTokenMiddleware to reject unauthorized requests.
* Middleware first version
* Middleware tests
* Add tests
* Finish middleware tests
* Add type for request
* Add flagresolver
* Fix snapshot
* Update flags and tests
* Put it back as default
* Update snapshot
* feat: use unleash flags for embedded proxy
* feat: add a separate flag for the proxy frontend
* fix: setup unleash in dev
* fix: check flagResolver on each request
* fix: remove unleash client setup
* refactor: update frontend routes snapshot
* refactor: make batchMetrics flag dynamic
* fix: always check dynamic CORS origins config
* fix: make conditionalMiddleware work with the OpenAPI schema generation
Co-authored-by: olav <mail@olav.io>
* fix: remove unused exp flag
* fix: remove unused flag
* fix: add support for external flag resolver
* fix: rename flagsresolver to flagresolver
* fix: disable external flag resolver
* fix: refactor a bit
* fix: stop using unleash in server-dev
* fix: remove userGroups flag
* fix: revert bumping frontend
* refactor: remove unused API definition routes
* feat: add support for proxy keys
* feat: support listening for any event
* feat: embed proxy endpoints
* refactor: add an experimental flag for the embedded proxy
feat: options are now typed
- This makes it easier to know what to send to unleash.start / unleash.create
- Using a Partial to instantiate the config, then melding it with defaults to get a config object with all fields set either to their defaults or to whatever is passed in.
Co-authored-by: Fredrik Strand Oseberg <fredrik.no@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Ivar Conradi Østhus <ivarconr@gmail.com>
