Remote endpoint management

Remote endpoint management enables Authorization Hub to securely connect to external authorization services at runtime. Credentials are centrally managed, securely stored, and can be updated without requiring a redeployment.

CAQ endpoints for Policy insights

Authorization Hub uses remote endpoints to power Policy insights. It connects to a Contextual Authorization Query (CAQ) endpoint to evaluate policies and generate access review reports on demand.

This configuration is optional and can be added at any time. To configure your remote endpoints, follow these steps:

1. Create a file called endpoints.yaml and store it in the configurations directory.

2. Provide the required endpoint definitions. For example:

   endpoints:
     - name: caq-dev
       projectId: "project-123"
       description: "CAQ Development Environment"
       url: https://endpoint1.example.com
       auth:
         method: OAUTH2
         clientId: my-client
         clientSecret: my-secret
         tokenUri: "https://auth.example.com/token"
         scope: [ "read", "write" ]
     - name: caq-e2e
       projectId: "project-123"
       description: "CAQ End-to-End Environment"
       url: https://endpoint2.example.com
       auth:
         method: BASIC
         username: user
         password: pass
   note

   Endpoints are scoped to a project through the projectId parameter, enabling Policy insights users to run reports using the associated CAQ endpoint. The relevant description values will appear in the Environment dropdown on the Reports page.

3. Navigate to kubernetes/charts and run a Helm upgrade:

   helm upgrade hub \
   -f hub/values.yaml hub \
   --set registry=748131003707.dkr.ecr.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/axiomatics/ \
   --set hubHostname=$CHANGE_ME \
   --set 'imagePullSecrets[0].name=regcred'

   The Helm chart creates a Kubernetes secret from this file. The application automatically detects changes to the secret without requiring a pod restart.

Update endpoints

To update the endpoints list, modify the configurations/endpoints.yaml file and perform a Helm upgrade.