App ID Integration

Securing Inventory App with App ID

To secure the application we are using the capabilities available within the IBMCloud platform that use a simple annotation on the ingress to enable integration with AppId. The Code Patterns have already been set up to use this feature and all that is required is update the configuration within the values.yaml file of the helm chart.

Inventory Management UI

Find the app id binding secret by running the following command from a terminal where the kubernetes context has been set up (i.e. oc login has been done)

kubectl get -n dev secrets | grep -E "binding.*appid"

Update the values.yaml file in the Inventory Management UI chart to set ingress.appId.enabled=true and to set the value for the AppId binding secret from the previous step

/chart/template-node-react/values.yaml
...
ingress:
  enabled: true
  appid:
    enabled: true
    # web or app - https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/services/appid?topic=appid-kube-auth
    requestType: web
    binding:

AppId redirect url config

Get the ingress for the UI component by running igc ingress -n dev-{initials}.
Open the IBM Cloud resource list - https://cloud.ibm.com/resources
Open the AppId instance to the Manage Authentication -> Authentication Settings view

Add the redirect url for the application to the web redirect URLs. The redirect url will have the following form:

`{ingress url}/appid_callback`
e.g. `https://inventory-manangement-ui-dev.sms-test-oc-cluster.us-east.containers.appdomain.cloud/appid_callback`

Add users to AppId

Open the AppId instance to Cloud Directory -> Users
Add yourself as a user with an email address, name, and password

Access the UI

Open a browser to the UI ingress
You should be met with the AppId login screen. (This screen can be customized from the AppId service console but for now we are showing the default screen.)
Provide the email address and password you configured in the previous steps. You should be granted access to the UI.

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