fastapi-opa 0.1.1

Fastapi OPA middleware incl. auth flow.

Open Policy Agent Middleware for FastAPI

fastapi-opa is an extension to FastAPI that allows you to add a login flow to your application within minutes using open policy agent and your favourite identity provider.

─▄████▄▄░
▄▀█▀▐└─┐░░         FastAPI App
█▄▐▌▄█▄┘██  ---->  @app.get("/")
└▄▄▄▄▄┘███         async def root():  
██▒█▒███▀              return {}
   User                   |                   Identity Provider
    |       ------------------------------>    (e.g. Keycloak)
    |       <------------------------------           |
    |       ---->         |                           |
    |                     |           ---->           |
    |                     |           <----           |
    |                     |           ---------------------------------->  Open Policy Agent
    |                     |           <---------------------------------- 
    |       <-----        |

When a user tries to get a response from an endpoint he/she will be redirected to the identity provider for authorization. After the authentication the app validates the token provided. Once it was validated the user information is used to get an OPA decision whether the user is allowed to get any information from the endpoint.

Installation

poetry add fastapi-opa

How to get started

The package provides a very easy way to integrate authentication and authorization. We can decide what authentication flow we inject into the OPAMiddleware to be able choosing between different flows.

from typing import Dict

from fastapi import FastAPI

from fastapi_opa import OPAConfig
from fastapi_opa import OPAMiddleware
from fastapi_opa.auth import OIDCAuthentication
from fastapi_opa.auth import OIDCConfig

# The hostname of your Open Policy Agent instance
opa_host = "http://localhost:8181"
# In this example we use OIDC authentication flow (using Keycloak)
oidc_config = OIDCConfig(
    host="http://localhost:8080",  # host of your identity provider
    realm="example-realm",  # realm id of your identity provider
    app_uri="http://localhost:4000",  # host where this app is running
    client_id="example-client",  # client id of your app configured in the identity provider
    client_secret="bbb4857c-21ba-44a3-8843-1364984a36906",  # the client secret retrieved from your identity provider
)
oidc_auth = OIDCAuthentication(oidc_config)
opa_config = OPAConfig(authentication=oidc_auth, opa_host=opa_host)

app = FastAPI()
# Add OPAMiddleware to the fastapi app
app.add_middleware(OPAMiddleware, config=opa_config)


@app.get("/")
async def root() -> Dict:
    return {
        "msg": "success",
    }

Open Policy Agent

The (validated/authenticated) user token is sent to the Open Policy Agent with the additional attributes request_method and request_path.

{
    "input": {
        "exp": 1617466243,
        "iat": 1617465943,
        "auth_time": 1617465663,
        "jti": "9aacb638-70c6-4f0a-b0c8-dbc67f92e3d1",
        "iss": "http://localhost:8080/auth/realms/example-realm",
        "aud": "example-client",
        "sub": "ccf78dc0-e1d6-4606-99d4-9009e74e3ab4",
        "typ": "ID",
        "azp": "david",
        "session_state": "41640fe7-39d2-44bc-818c-a3360b36fb87",
        "at_hash": "2IGw-B9f5910Sll1tnfQRg",
        "acr": "0",
        "email_verified": false,
        "hr": "true",
        "preferred_username": "david",
        "user": "david",
        "subordinates": [],
        "request_method": "GET",
        "request_path": ["finance", "salary", "david"]
    }
}

In open policy agent you can now easily create policies using user roles, routes, or request methods etc.

An example policy (from the official OPA docs) for this setup could be like:

package httpapi.authz

# bob is alice's manager, and betty is charlie's.
subordinates = {"alice": [], "charlie": [], "bob": ["alice"], "betty": ["charlie"]}

# HTTP API request
import input

default allow = false

# Allow users to get their own salaries.
allow {
  some username
  input.request_method == "GET"
  input.request_path = ["finance", "salary", username]
  input.user == username
}

# Allow managers to get their subordinates' salaries.
allow {
  some username
  input.request_method == "GET"
  input.request_path = ["finance", "salary", username]
  subordinates[input.user][_] == username
}

Authentication Flow

These flows are implemented:

• OpenID Connect

If your favourite flow is not provided yet, there is an interface provided to easily implement it and inject it into OPAMiddleware (fastapi_opa.auth.auth_interface.AuthInterface), or you can open a pull request if you would like to contribute to the package.

Roadmap

• Document quick-start environment to empower users
• Add other authentication flows
• Allow more flexible way of opa jwt enrichment