console-github-auth

console-github-auth

How it works

• This component is deployed to cloud run (org: nais.io, project: github-tenant-auth), by nais-terraform-modules.
• It has credentials (app id / private key) for the nais/console github application.
• nais-terraform-modules grants invoke permissions to the console service account.
• When starting up, console-github-auth finds the appropriate installation id to create tokens for, based on the GITHUB_ORG env variable.
• When console needs to do requests targetting the GitHub API, it will:
  • use it's application default credentials to get an id token for it's own service account
  • use this to call https://console-github-auth-something.run.app/createInstallationToken
  • use the token returned by console-github-auth with the GitHub API. This token can only do operations targeting the specified GitHub organization.