GitCloud

This is an example application based on GitHub that's meant to model GitHub's permissions system. The app is implemented as multiple backend services (in the services/ directory) that use Oso Cloud as a shared central authorization system and a React frontend (in the frontend/ directory).

This application is built as an example for Oso Cloud. If you are looking for an example of using the Oso library, check out osohq/gitclub.

Backend services

GitClub (Python - SQLAlchemy - Flask)

This is an example application based on GitHub that's meant to model GitHub's permissions system. The app uses the oso-cloud Python library to model, manage, and enforce authorization.

The Oso Cloud documentation is a good reference for more information on Oso's Python library.

Jobs Service (Node.js - TypeORM - Express.js)

This is an example application based on GitHub Actions that's meant to model GitHub Actions's permissions system. The app uses the oso-cloud Node.js library to model, manage, and enforce authorization.

The Oso Cloud documentation is a good reference for more information on Oso's Node.js library.

Configuring your local environment

Install the oso-cloud CLI by following the instructions in the Oso Cloud Quickstart

You can optionally set up your environment for local testing by running make setup from the root directory of the repository. This will do the following:

• Install the appropriate version of the Oso Cloud local development binary for your system.
• Copy the pre-commit hook from the scripts directory to .git/pre-commit if one doesn't already exist there.
  • This will automatically validate the syntax of policy/authorization.polar before committing it.

Running local policy tests

If you configured your environment for local testing above, then you can run the policy tests locally by running the following command from the root directory of the repository:

OSO_AUTH=e_0123456789_12345_osotesttoken01xiIn make test-policy

The OSO_AUTH variable is set to the local development API key as documented in the Setup section of the Local Development Guide. It will only work against the local development binary.

This will:

• start the local development binary
• Run the policy tests in policy/authorization.polar against the local development binary

Running tests

NOTE: running the test suite against an Oso Cloud instance will reset all data in that instance. This ensures each test starts from a clean slate.

To run the test suite, which, again, will reset data and perform many authorization requests against the target Oso Cloud instance, grab your API key from https://ui.osohq.com/dashboard and export it as the OSO_AUTH environment variable.

$ export OSO_AUTH="0123456789"
$ make test

Running the services

The first time you run these services, you'll need to upload your policy:

make update-policy

You only need to do this once. (If you make changes to the policy, you'll need to run it again.)

Run GitClub in one terminal:

make -C services/gitclub

Run the Jobs Service in another terminal:

make -C services/jobs

Frontend

Running the frontend

$ cd frontend
$ yarn
$ yarn start

Architecture

• TypeScript / React / Reach Router

Development

The GitClub service runs on port 5000; the Jobs service runs on port 5001. The frontend knows to make requests to 5001 for Jobs and 5000 for everything else. In a real production scenario, these disparate backend APIs would probably be abstracted behind an API gateway or similar.

The GitClub service uses cookies to manage sessions. The Jobs service looks for a special x-user-id header that contains the logged-in user's super secret token... which is also their ID... which is also their email. In a production scenario, the authentication system should be a lot more secure. It doesn't really matter for our purposes, where we really only care about showing off authorization might.

If you want to be able to debug/test the backend without running the frontend and logging in, you can use the following to save a session locally:

Save the cookies

curl -c gitclub.cookies -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X POST -d '{"username": "john@beatles.com"}' localhost:5000/session

Use the cookies

curl -b gitclub.cookies localhost:5000/orgs/1

FAQ

I'm getting "Failed to fetch" CORS errors on Mac

Try disabling Airplay, Airplay can intercept requests to localhost:5000. In the Chrome console, check the "server" response header on a failed request: if the "server" response header includes "Airplay", then Airplay is the culprit.