Chapter 3. Customizing Red Hat Developer Hub backend secret


The default Red Hat Developer Hub configuration defines the Developer Hub backend secret for service to service authentication.

You can define your custom Developer Hub backend secret.

Prerequisites

Procedure

  1. To define the Developer Hub backend secret, add to your custom my-rhdh-secrets.txt file the BACKEND_SECRET environment variable with a base64 encoded string. Use a unique value for each Developer Hub instance.

    $ echo > my-rhdh-secrets.txt "BACKEND_SECRET=$(node -p 'require("crypto").randomBytes(24).toString("base64")')"

    my-rhdh-secrets.txt example

    BACKEND_SECRET=3E2/rIPuZNFCtYHoxVP8wjriffnN1q/z

  2. Add your backend secret to your custom app-config.yaml file.

    app-config.yaml excerpt defining the backend secret

    backend:
      auth:
        externalAccess:
          - type: legacy
            options:
              subject: legacy-default-config
              secret: "${BACKEND_SECRET}"

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