Stackspin Dashboard
This repo hosts the Stackspin Dashboard, both frontend and backend code.
Project structure
Frontend
The frontend code lives in the frontend
directory.
Backend
The backend code lives in the backend
directory. Apart from the dashboard
backend itself, it also contains a flask application that functions as the
identity provider, login, consent and logout endpoints for the OpenID Connect
(OIDC) process.
The application relies on the following components:
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Hydra: Hydra is an open source OIDC server. It means applications can connect to Hydra to start a session with a user. Hydra provides the application with the username and other roles/claims for the application. Hydra is developed by Ory and has security as one of their top priorities.
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Kratos: This is Identity Manager and contains all the user profiles and secrets (passwords). Kratos is designed to work mostly between UI (browser) and kratos directly, over a public API endpoint. Authentication, form-validation, etc. are all handled by Kratos. Kratos only provides an API and not UI itself. Kratos provides an admin API as well, which is only used from the server-side flask app to create/delete users.
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MariaDB: The login application, as well as Hydra and Kratos, need to store data. This is done in a MariaDB database server. There is one instance with three databases. As all databases are very small we do not foresee resource limitation problems.
If Hydra hits a new session/user, it has to know if this user has access. To do so, the user has to login through a login application. This application is developed by the Stackspin team (Greenhost) and is part of this repository. It is a Python Flask application The application follows flows defined in Kratos, and as such a lot of the interaction is done in the web-browser, rather then server-side. As a result, the login application has a UI component which relies heavily on JavaScript. As this is a relatively small application, it is based on traditional Bootstrap + JQuery.