Authentication Provider

In order to authenticate users Mia-Platform Console requires a connection to an Identity Provider that is in charge of authenticate users.

Supported Authentication Providers

Any OAuth2 compliant Identity Provider is supported, however Mia-Platform Console provides specific integrations with most IDPs, here is a comprehensive list, each provider identified by an id that can be used during configuration:

• Okta (okta)
• Keycloak (keycloak)
• GitLab (gitlab)
• GitHub (github)
• Microsoft (microsoft)
• Bitbucket (bitbucket)

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For provider not listed here, you can use the generic authentication provider to configure your own.

Configure your Authentication Provider

To connect Mia-Platform Console with your Authentication Provider you have to setup the authProviders configuration.

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Please bear in mind that the authProviders field is a required field, you can't install Mia-Platform Console without configuring at least one Authentication Provider.

Name	Type	Description	Default	Optional
name	string	A unique name for the provider		❌
type	string	The type of provider, one of okta, gitlab, github, microsoft, bitbucket, keycloak, generic		❌
baseUrl	string	The url of the git provider		❌
apiBaseUrl	string	The url of the git provider API andpoint	value of baseUrl	✅
label	string	The label to be shown to the final user		❌
clientId	string	The client Id for authentication		❌
clientSecret	string	The client secret for authentication		❌
authPath	string	The path for the authentication API		✅
authUrl	string	The full url for the authentication API	value of apiBaseUrl/authPath	✅
tokenPath	string	The path for retrieving the user token		✅
tokenUrl	string	The full url for retrieving the user token	value of apiBaseUrl/tokenPath	✅
userInfoPath	string	The path for retrieving the user data		✅
userInfoUrl	string	The full url for retrieving the user data	value of apiBaseUrl/userInfoPath	✅
userSettingsURL	string	The full url to the API endpoint for requesting the user data	empty string	✅
skipRefreshProviderTokenOnMiaTokenRefresh	boolean	Skip refresh the provider token when the console one is expired	true	✅
cmsClientId	string	The client Id for CMS authentication	value of clientId	✅
cmsClientSecret	string	The client secret for CMS authentication	value of clientSecret	✅
additionalScopes	string[]	The additional scope for the provider	[]	✅
genericProviderOidcKeys	object	The keys that must be extracted from the provider response, only available for generic auth provider type		✅

Logout flow

You can configure the Console to logout the user from the Identity Provider when the user logs out from the Console itself. In oder to do so, you have to set one of the following properties:

Name	Type	Description	Default	Optional
logoutUrl	string	The full URL to perform a logout from an OIDC compliant provider. If you are configuring a generic provider, make also sure to add openid to the additionalScopes list	empty string	✅
logoutUrlPath	string	The path to append to the API endpoint to perform a logout from an OIDC compliant provider. If you are configuring a generic provider, make also sure to add openid to the additionalScopes list	empty string	✅

In case you set the logoutUrlPath, it will be appended to the Identity Provider base URL.

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Please note that you may need to allow the redirect URL to the homepage of the Console and to the homepage of the CMS login site inside the Identity Provider configuration.

The urls are the following:

• <CONSOLE-BASE-URL>/
• <CONSOLE-CMS-BASE-URL>/web-login

Consult the documentation of your Identity Provider to know how to configure the redirect URLs.

Session signing

Even though the authentication is resolved by a third party, the sessions provided by Mia-Platform Console to its users are signed by the console itself, by means of the RSA256 asymmetric algorithm.

To be able to properly manage users authentication, the Console requires a few additional configurations, to be set under the key userAccountAuthProvider:

Name	Type	Description	Default	Optional
jwtTokenPrivateKeyBase64	string	The private key file contents encoded to base64.		❌
jwtTokenPrivateKeyPassword	string	The password of the private key.		❌
jwtTokenPrivateKeyKid	string	The KID of the private key. It can be any string, we suggest to generate an UUIDv4		❌
tokenPassphrase	string	An HMAC string of 128 bytes for authentication purpose, used to encrypt sensitive data saved to Redis. You can generate it with a command like openssl rand -base64 128		❌

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The latest version of the chart introduces the asymmetric signing of the users JWT tokens, thus the token won't be signed and verified anymore with the old symmetric jwtTokenSignKey, but signed with a private key and verified with a public key. This may cause 401 errors to be shown to users that still have an old token signed with the old key. The user may need to manually navigate to the Console login page to be able to login again. A new token signed with the new private key will then be issued.

Private key generation

The Console supports the RSA256 asymmetric algorithm to sign JWT Tokens. You need to provide a password protected PEM private key, of at least 4096 bytes.

Here is a command you can use to generate it:

ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096 -m PEM -f private.key

When prompted, specify a password, the same you will set in jwtTokenPrivateKeyPassword.

The command generates two files: private.key and private.key.pub. We can discard the public key:

rm private.key.pub

and copy a base64 representation of the private key:

cat private.key | base64 | pbcopy

You can now delete the private.key file:

rm private.key

Expose synchronization webhooks

If you want to control user creation and deletion from an external Identity Provider you can use the enableUserSynchronizationWebhooks configuration flag

Name	Type	Description	Default	Optional
enableUserSynchronizationWebhooks	boolean	Activates webhooks for automatic user synchronization with external Identity providers		✅

To know more about user synchronization with an Identity Provider, visit the dedicated documentation page.

Additional Authentication Clients

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This feature is deprecated and will be removed with v10 of the Mia-Platform Console Installation Chart!

With the additionalAuthenticationClients you can set up more providers by defining a list of object with the following properties:

Name	Type	Description	Default	Optional
app	string	A unique name for the app		❌
isWebsiteApp	boolean	Handle the website session or returns a jwt token in header		❌
providers	array	The providers configuration for authentication		❌