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href="#introduction" class="hash-link" aria-label="Direct link to Introduction" title="Direct link to Introduction"></a></h2><p>This document provides a technical overview of the how authentication works in DataHub&#x27;s backend aimed at developers evaluating or operating DataHub.
It includes a characterization of the motivations for the feature, the key components in its design, the new capabilities it provides, &amp; configuration instructions.</p><h2 class="anchor anchorWithStickyNavbar_LWe7" id="background">Background<a href="#background" class="hash-link" aria-label="Direct link to Background" title="Direct link to Background"></a></h2><p>Let&#x27;s recall 2 critical components of DataHub&#x27;s architecture:</p><ul><li><strong>DataHub Frontend Proxy</strong> (datahub-frontend) - Resource server that routes requests to downstream Metadata Service</li><li><strong>DataHub Metadata Service</strong> (datahub-gms) - Source of truth for storing and serving DataHub Metadata Graph.</li></ul><p>Previously, Authentication was exclusively handled by the Frontend Proxy. This service would perform the following steps
when a user navigated to <code>http://localhost:9002/</code>:</p><p>a. Check for the presence of a special <code>PLAY_SESSION</code> cookie.</p><p>b. If cookie was present + valid, redirect to the home page</p><p>c. If cookie was invalid, redirect to either a) the DataHub login screen (for <a href="/docs/authentication/guides/jaas">JAAS authentication</a> or b) a <a href="/docs/authentication/guides/sso/configure-oidc-react">configured OIDC Identity Provider</a> to perform authentication.</p><p>Once authentication had succeeded at the frontend proxy layer, a stateless (token-based) session cookie (PLAY_SESSION) would be set in the users browser.
All subsequent requests, including the GraphQL requests issued by the React UI, would be authenticated using this session cookie. Once a request had made it beyond
the frontend service layer, it was assumed to have been already authenticated. Hence, there was <strong>no native authentication inside of the Metadata Service</strong>.</p><h3 class="anchor anchorWithStickyNavbar_LWe7" id="problems-with-this-approach">Problems with this approach<a href="#problems-with-this-approach" class="hash-link" aria-label="Direct link to Problems with this approach" title="Direct link to Problems with this approach"></a></h3><p>The major challenge with this situation is that requests to the backend Metadata Service were completely unauthenticated. There were 2 options for folks who required authentication at the Metadata Service layer:</p><ol><li>Set up a proxy in front of Metadata Service that performed authentication</li><li>[A more recent possibility]<!-- --> Route requests to Metadata Service through DataHub Frontend Proxy, including the PLAY_SESSION
Cookie with every request.</li></ol><p>Neither of which are ideal. Setting up a proxy to do authentication takes time &amp; expertise. Extracting and setting a session cookie from the browser for programmatic is
clunky &amp; unscalable. On top of that, extending the authentication system was difficult, requiring implementing a new <a href="https://www.playframework.com/documentation/2.8.8/api/java/play/mvc/Security.Authenticator.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Play module</a> within DataHub Frontend.</p><h2 class="anchor anchorWithStickyNavbar_LWe7" id="introducing-authentication-in-datahub-metadata-service">Introducing Authentication in DataHub Metadata Service<a href="#introducing-authentication-in-datahub-metadata-service" class="hash-link" aria-label="Direct link to Introducing Authentication in DataHub Metadata Service" title="Direct link to Introducing Authentication in DataHub Metadata Service"></a></h2><p>To address these problems, we introduced configurable Authentication inside the <strong>Metadata Service</strong> itself,
meaning that requests are no longer considered trusted until they are authenticated by the Metadata Service.</p><p>Why push Authentication down? In addition to the problems described above, we wanted to plan for a future
where Authentication of Kafka-based-writes could be performed in the same manner as Rest writes.</p><h2 class="anchor anchorWithStickyNavbar_LWe7" id="configuring-metadata-service-authentication">Configuring Metadata Service Authentication<a href="#configuring-metadata-service-authentication" class="hash-link" aria-label="Direct link to Configuring Metadata Service Authentication" title="Direct link to Configuring Metadata Service Authentication"></a></h2><p>Metadata Service Authentication is currently <strong>opt-in</strong>. This means that you may continue to use DataHub without Metadata Service Authentication without interruption.
To enable Metadata Service Authentication:</p><ul><li>set the <code>METADATA_SERVICE_AUTH_ENABLED</code> environment variable to &quot;true&quot; for the <code>datahub-gms</code> AND <code>datahub-frontend</code> containers / pods.</li></ul><p>OR</p><ul><li>change the Metadata Service <code>application.yaml</code> configuration file to set <code>authentication.enabled</code> to &quot;true&quot; AND</li><li>change the Frontend Proxy Service <code>application.config</code> configuration file to set <code>metadataService.auth.enabled</code> to &quot;true&quot;</li></ul><p>After setting the configuration flag, simply restart the Metadata Service to start enforcing Authentication.</p><p>Once enabled, all requests to the Metadata Service will need to be authenticated; if you&#x27;re using the default Authenticators
that ship with DataHub, this means that all requests will need to present an Access Token in the Authorization Header as follows:</p><div class="codeBlockContainer_Ckt0 theme-code-block" style="--prism-color:#bfc7d5;--prism-background-color:#292d3e"><div class="codeBlockContent_biex"><pre tabindex="0" class="prism-code language-text codeBlock_bY9V thin-scrollbar"><code class="codeBlockLines_e6Vv"><span class="token-line" style="color:#bfc7d5"><span class="token plain">Authorization: Bearer &lt;access-token&gt;</span><br></span></code></pre><div class="buttonGroup__atx"><button type="button" aria-label="Copy code to clipboard" title="Copy" class="clean-btn"><span class="copyButtonIcons_eSgA" aria-hidden="true"><svg viewBox="0 0 24 24" class="copyButtonIcon_y97N"><path fill="currentColor" d="M19,21H8V7H19M19,5H8A2,2 0 0,0 6,7V21A2,2 0 0,0 8,23H19A2,2 0 0,0 21,21V7A2,2 0 0,0 19,5M16,1H4A2,2 0 0,0 2,3V17H4V3H16V1Z"></path></svg><svg viewBox="0 0 24 24" class="copyButtonSuccessIcon_LjdS"><path fill="currentColor" d="M21,7L9,19L3.5,13.5L4.91,12.09L9,16.17L19.59,5.59L21,7Z"></path></svg></span></button></div></div></div><p>For users logging into the UI, this process will be handled for you. When logging in, a cookie will be set in your browser that internally
contains a valid Access Token for the Metadata Service. When browsing the UI, this token will be extracted and sent to the Metadata Service
to authenticate each request.</p><p>For users who want to access the Metadata Service programmatically, i.e. for running ingestion, the current recommendation is to generate
a <strong>Personal Access Token</strong> (described above) from the root &quot;datahub&quot; user account, and using this token when configuring your <a href="/docs/metadata-ingestion#recipes">Ingestion Recipes</a>.
To configure the token for use in ingestion, simply populate the &quot;token&quot; configuration for the <code>datahub-rest</code> sink:</p><div class="codeBlockContainer_Ckt0 theme-code-block" style="--prism-color:#bfc7d5;--prism-background-color:#292d3e"><div class="codeBlockContent_biex"><pre tabindex="0" class="prism-code language-text codeBlock_bY9V thin-scrollbar"><code class="codeBlockLines_e6Vv"><span class="token-line" style="color:#bfc7d5"><span class="token plain">source:</span><br></span><span class="token-line" style="color:#bfc7d5"><span class="token plain"> # source configs</span><br></span><span class="token-line" style="color:#bfc7d5"><span class="token plain">sink:</span><br></span><span class="token-line" style="color:#bfc7d5"><span class="token plain"> type: &quot;datahub-rest&quot;</span><br></span><span class="token-line" style="color:#bfc7d5"><span class="token plain"> config:</span><br></span><span class="token-line" style="color:#bfc7d5"><span class="token plain"> ...</span><br></span><span class="token-line" style="color:#bfc7d5"><span class="token plain"> token: &lt;your-personal-access-token-here!&gt;</span><br></span></code></pre><div class="buttonGroup__atx"><button type="button" aria-label="Copy code to clipboard" title="Copy" class="clean-btn"><span class="copyButtonIcons_eSgA" aria-hidden="true"><svg viewBox="0 0 24 24" class="copyButtonIcon_y97N"><path fill="currentColor" d="M19,21H8V7H19M19,5H8A2,2 0 0,0 6,7V21A2,2 0 0,0 8,23H19A2,2 0 0,0 21,21V7A2,2 0 0,0 19,5M16,1H4A2,2 0 0,0 2,3V17H4V3H16V1Z"></path></svg><svg viewBox="0 0 24 24" class="copyButtonSuccessIcon_LjdS"><path fill="currentColor" d="M21,7L9,19L3.5,13.5L4.91,12.09L9,16.17L19.59,5.59L21,7Z"></path></svg></span></button></div></div></div><blockquote><p>Note that ingestion occurring via <code>datahub-kafka</code> sink will continue to be Unauthenticated <em>for now</em>. Soon, we will be introducing
support for providing an access token in the event payload itself to authenticate ingestion requests over Kafka.</p></blockquote><h3 class="anchor anchorWithStickyNavbar_LWe7" id="the-role-of-datahub-frontend-proxy-going-forward">The Role of DataHub Frontend Proxy Going Forward<a href="#the-role-of-datahub-frontend-proxy-going-forward" class="hash-link" aria-label="Direct link to The Role of DataHub Frontend Proxy Going Forward" title="Direct link to The Role of DataHub Frontend Proxy Going Forward"></a></h3><p>With these changes, DataHub Frontend Proxy will continue to play a vital part in the complex dance of Authentication. It will serve as the place
where UI-based session authentication originates and will continue to support 3rd Party SSO configuration (OIDC)
and JAAS configuration as it does today.</p><p>The major improvement is that the Frontend Service will validate credentials provided at UI login time
and generate a DataHub <strong>Access Token</strong>, embedding it into traditional session cookie (which will continue to work).</p><p>In summary, DataHub Frontend Service will continue to play a vital role to Authentication. It&#x27;s scope, however, will likely
remain limited to concerns specific to the React UI.</p><h2 class="anchor anchorWithStickyNavbar_LWe7" id="where-to-go-from-here">Where to go from here<a href="#where-to-go-from-here" class="hash-link" aria-label="Direct link to Where to go from here" title="Direct link to Where to go from here"></a></h2><p>These changes represent the first milestone in Metadata Service Authentication. They will serve as a foundation upon which we can build new features, prioritized based on Community demand:</p><ol><li><strong>Dynamic Authenticator Plugins</strong>: Configure + register custom Authenticator implementations, without forking DataHub.</li><li><strong>Service Accounts</strong>: Create service accounts and generate Access tokens on their behalf.</li><li><strong>Kafka Ingestion Authentication</strong>: Authenticate ingestion requests coming from the Kafka ingestion sink inside the Metadata Service.</li><li><strong>Access Token Management</strong>: Ability to view, manage, and revoke access tokens that have been generated. (Currently, access tokens inlcude no server side state, and thus cannot be revoked once granted)</li></ol><p>...and more! To advocate for these features or others, reach out on <a href="https://datahubspace.slack.com/join/shared_invite/zt-nx7i0dj7-I3IJYC551vpnvvjIaNRRGw#/shared-invite/email" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Slack</a>.</p><h2 class="anchor anchorWithStickyNavbar_LWe7" id="qas">Q&amp;As<a href="#qas" class="hash-link" aria-label="Direct link to Q&amp;As" title="Direct link to Q&amp;As"></a></h2><h3 class="anchor anchorWithStickyNavbar_LWe7" id="what-if-i-dont-want-to-use-metadata-service-authentication">What if I don&#x27;t want to use Metadata Service Authentication?<a href="#what-if-i-dont-want-to-use-metadata-service-authentication" class="hash-link" aria-label="Direct link to What if I don&#x27;t want to use Metadata Service Authentication?" title="Direct link to What if I don&#x27;t want to use Metadata Service Authentication?"></a></h3><p>That&#x27;s perfectly fine, for now. Metadata Service Authentication is disabled by default, only enabled if you provide the
environment variable <code>METADATA_SERVICE_AUTH_ENABLED</code> to the <code>datahub-gms</code> container or change the <code>authentication.enabled</code> to &quot;true&quot;
inside your DataHub Metadata Service configuration (<code>application.yaml</code>).</p><p>That being said, we will be recommending that you enable Authentication for production use cases, to prevent
arbitrary actors from ingesting metadata into DataHub.</p><h3 class="anchor anchorWithStickyNavbar_LWe7" id="if-i-enable-metadata-service-authentication-will-ingestion-stop-working">If I enable Metadata Service Authentication, will ingestion stop working?<a href="#if-i-enable-metadata-service-authentication-will-ingestion-stop-working" class="hash-link" aria-label="Direct link to If I enable Metadata Service Authentication, will ingestion stop working?" title="Direct link to If I enable Metadata Service Authentication, will ingestion stop working?"></a></h3><p>If you enable Metadata Service Authentication, you will want to provide a value for the &quot;token&quot; configuration value
when using the <code>datahub-rest</code> sink in your <a href="/docs/metadata-ingestion/#recipes">Ingestion Recipes</a>. See
the <a href="/docs/metadata-ingestion/sink_docs/datahub#config-details">Rest Sink Docs</a> for configuration details.</p><p>We&#x27;d recommend generating a Personal Access Token (described above) from a trusted DataHub Account (e.g. root &#x27;datahub&#x27; user) when configuring
your Ingestion sources.</p><p>Note that you can also provide the &quot;extraHeaders&quot; configuration in <code>datahub-rest</code> sink to specify a custom header to
pass with each request. This can be used in conjunction to authenticate using a custom Authenticator, for example.</p><h3 class="anchor anchorWithStickyNavbar_LWe7" id="how-do-i-generate-an-access-token-for-a-service-account">How do I generate an Access Token for a service account?<a href="#how-do-i-generate-an-access-token-for-a-service-account" class="hash-link" aria-label="Direct link to How do I generate an Access Token for a service account?" title="Direct link to How do I generate an Access Token for a service account?"></a></h3><p>There is no formal concept of &quot;service account&quot; or &quot;bot&quot; on DataHub (yet). For now, we recommend you configure any
programmatic clients of DataHub to use a Personal Access Token generated from a user with the correct privileges, for example
the root &quot;datahub&quot; user account.</p><h3 class="anchor anchorWithStickyNavbar_LWe7" id="i-want-to-authenticate-requests-using-a-custom-authenticator-how-do-i-do-this">I want to authenticate requests using a custom Authenticator? How do I do this?<a href="#i-want-to-authenticate-requests-using-a-custom-authenticator-how-do-i-do-this" class="hash-link" aria-label="Direct link to I want to authenticate requests using a custom Authenticator? How do I do this?" title="Direct link to I want to authenticate requests using a custom Authenticator? How do I do this?"></a></h3><p>You can configure DataHub to add your custom <strong>Authenticator</strong> to the <strong>Authentication Chain</strong> by changing the <code>application.yaml</code> configuration file for the Metadata Service:</p><div class="language-yml codeBlockContainer_Ckt0 theme-code-block" style="--prism-color:#bfc7d5;--prism-background-color:#292d3e"><div class="codeBlockContent_biex"><pre tabindex="0" class="prism-code language-yml codeBlock_bY9V thin-scrollbar"><code class="codeBlockLines_e6Vv"><span class="token-line" style="color:#bfc7d5"><span class="token key atrule">authentication</span><span class="token punctuation" style="color:rgb(199, 146, 234)">:</span><span class="token plain"></span><br></span><span class="token-line" style="color:#bfc7d5"><span class="token plain"> </span><span class="token key atrule">enabled</span><span class="token punctuation" style="color:rgb(199, 146, 234)">:</span><span class="token plain"> </span><span class="token boolean important" style="color:rgb(255, 88, 116)">true</span><span class="token plain"> </span><span class="token comment" style="color:rgb(105, 112, 152);font-style:italic"># Enable Metadata Service Authentication</span><span class="token plain"></span><br></span><span class="token-line" style="color:#bfc7d5"><span class="token plain"> </span><span class="token punctuation" style="color:rgb(199, 146, 234)">...</span><span class="token plain">.</span><br></span><span class="token-line" style="color:#bfc7d5"><span class="token plain"> </span><span class="token key atrule">authenticators</span><span class="token punctuation" style="color:rgb(199, 146, 234)">:</span><span class="token plain"> </span><span class="token comment" style="color:rgb(105, 112, 152);font-style:italic"># Configure an Authenticator Chain</span><span class="token plain"></span><br></span><span class="token-line" style="color:#bfc7d5"><span class="token plain"> </span><span class="token punctuation" style="color:rgb(199, 146, 234)">-</span><span class="token plain"> </span><span class="token key atrule">type</span><span class="token punctuation" style="color:rgb(199, 146, 234)">:</span><span class="token plain"> &lt;fully</span><span class="token punctuation" style="color:rgb(199, 146, 234)">-</span><span class="token plain">qualified</span><span class="token punctuation" style="color:rgb(199, 146, 234)">-</span><span class="token plain">authenticator</span><span class="token punctuation" style="color:rgb(199, 146, 234)">-</span><span class="token plain">class</span><span class="token punctuation" style="color:rgb(199, 146, 234)">-</span><span class="token plain">name</span><span class="token punctuation" style="color:rgb(199, 146, 234)">&gt;</span><span class="token plain"> </span><span class="token comment" style="color:rgb(105, 112, 152);font-style:italic"># E.g. com.linkedin.datahub.authentication.CustomAuthenticator</span><span class="token plain"></span><br></span><span class="token-line" style="color:#bfc7d5"><span class="token plain"> </span><span class="token key atrule">configs</span><span class="token punctuation" style="color:rgb(199, 146, 234)">:</span><span class="token plain"> </span><span class="token comment" style="color:rgb(105, 112, 152);font-style:italic"># Specific configs that should be passed into &#x27;init&#x27; method of Authenticator</span><span class="token plain"></span><br></span><span class="token-line" style="color:#bfc7d5"><span class="token plain"> </span><span class="token key atrule">customConfig1</span><span class="token punctuation" style="color:rgb(199, 146, 234)">:</span><span class="token plain"> &lt;value</span><span class="token punctuation" style="color:rgb(199, 146, 234)">&gt;</span><br></span></code></pre><div class="buttonGroup__atx"><button type="button" aria-label="Copy code to clipboard" title="Copy" class="clean-btn"><span class="copyButtonIcons_eSgA" aria-hidden="true"><svg viewBox="0 0 24 24" class="copyButtonIcon_y97N"><path fill="currentColor" d="M19,21H8V7H19M19,5H8A2,2 0 0,0 6,7V21A2,2 0 0,0 8,23H19A2,2 0 0,0 21,21V7A2,2 0 0,0 19,5M16,1H4A2,2 0 0,0 2,3V17H4V3H16V1Z"></path></svg><svg viewBox="0 0 24 24" class="copyButtonSuccessIcon_LjdS"><path fill="currentColor" d="M21,7L9,19L3.5,13.5L4.91,12.09L9,16.17L19.59,5.59L21,7Z"></path></svg></span></button></div></div></div><p>Notice that you will need to have a class that implements the <code>Authenticator</code> interface with a zero-argument constructor available on the classpath
of the Metadata Service java process.</p><p>We love contributions! Feel free to raise a PR to contribute an Authenticator back if it&#x27;s generally useful.</p><h3 class="anchor anchorWithStickyNavbar_LWe7" id="now-that-i-can-make-authenticated-requests-to-either-datahub-proxy-service-and-datahub-metadata-service-which-should-i-use">Now that I can make authenticated requests to either DataHub Proxy Service and DataHub Metadata Service, which should I use?<a href="#now-that-i-can-make-authenticated-requests-to-either-datahub-proxy-service-and-datahub-metadata-service-which-should-i-use" class="hash-link" aria-label="Direct link to Now that I can make authenticated requests to either DataHub Proxy Service and DataHub Metadata Service, which should I use?" title="Direct link to Now that I can make authenticated requests to either DataHub Proxy Service and DataHub Metadata Service, which should I use?"></a></h3><p>Previously, we were recommending that folks contact the Metadata Service directly when doing things like</p><ul><li>ingesting Metadata via recipes</li><li>issuing programmatic requests to the Rest.li APIs</li><li>issuing programmatic requests to the GraphQL APIs</li></ul><p>With these changes, we will be shifting to the recommendation that folks direct all traffic, whether it&#x27;s programmatic or not,
to the <strong>DataHub Frontend Proxy</strong>, as routing to Metadata Service endpoints is currently available at the path <code>/api/gms</code>.
This recommendation is in effort to minimize the exposed surface area of DataHub to make securing, operating, maintaining, and developing
the platform simpler.</p><p>In practice, this will require migrating Metadata <a href="/docs/metadata-ingestion#recipes">Ingestion Recipes</a> use the <code>datahub-rest</code> sink to pointing at a slightly different
host + path.</p><p>Example recipe that proxies through DataHub Frontend</p><div class="language-yml codeBlockContainer_Ckt0 theme-code-block" style="--prism-color:#bfc7d5;--prism-background-color:#292d3e"><div class="codeBlockContent_biex"><pre tabindex="0" class="prism-code language-yml codeBlock_bY9V thin-scrollbar"><code class="codeBlockLines_e6Vv"><span class="token-line" style="color:#bfc7d5"><span class="token key atrule">source</span><span class="token punctuation" style="color:rgb(199, 146, 234)">:</span><span class="token plain"></span><br></span><span class="token-line" style="color:#bfc7d5"><span class="token plain"> </span><span class="token comment" style="color:rgb(105, 112, 152);font-style:italic"># source configs</span><span class="token plain"></span><br></span><span class="token-line" style="color:#bfc7d5"><span class="token plain"></span><span class="token key atrule">sink</span><span class="token punctuation" style="color:rgb(199, 146, 234)">:</span><span class="token plain"></span><br></span><span class="token-line" style="color:#bfc7d5"><span class="token plain"> </span><span class="token key atrule">type</span><span class="token punctuation" style="color:rgb(199, 146, 234)">:</span><span class="token plain"> </span><span class="token string" style="color:rgb(195, 232, 141)">&quot;datahub-rest&quot;</span><span class="token plain"></span><br></span><span class="token-line" style="color:#bfc7d5"><span class="token plain"> </span><span class="token key atrule">config</span><span class="token punctuation" style="color:rgb(199, 146, 234)">:</span><span class="token plain"></span><br></span><span class="token-line" style="color:#bfc7d5"><span class="token plain"> </span><span class="token punctuation" style="color:rgb(199, 146, 234)">...</span><span class="token plain"></span><br></span><span class="token-line" style="color:#bfc7d5"><span class="token plain"> </span><span class="token key atrule">token</span><span class="token punctuation" style="color:rgb(199, 146, 234)">:</span><span class="token plain"> &lt;your</span><span class="token punctuation" style="color:rgb(199, 146, 234)">-</span><span class="token plain">personal</span><span class="token punctuation" style="color:rgb(199, 146, 234)">-</span><span class="token plain">access</span><span class="token punctuation" style="color:rgb(199, 146, 234)">-</span><span class="token plain">token</span><span class="token punctuation" style="color:rgb(199, 146, 234)">-</span><span class="token plain">here</span><span class="token tag" style="color:rgb(255, 85, 114)">!</span><span class="token punctuation" style="color:rgb(199, 146, 234)">&gt;</span><br></span></code></pre><div class="buttonGroup__atx"><button type="button" aria-label="Copy code to clipboard" title="Copy" class="clean-btn"><span class="copyButtonIcons_eSgA" aria-hidden="true"><svg viewBox="0 0 24 24" class="copyButtonIcon_y97N"><path fill="currentColor" d="M19,21H8V7H19M19,5H8A2,2 0 0,0 6,7V21A2,2 0 0,0 8,23H19A2,2 0 0,0 21,21V7A2,2 0 0,0 19,5M16,1H4A2,2 0 0,0 2,3V17H4V3H16V1Z"></path></svg><svg viewBox="0 0 24 24" class="copyButtonSuccessIcon_LjdS"><path fill="currentColor" d="M21,7L9,19L3.5,13.5L4.91,12.09L9,16.17L19.59,5.59L21,7Z"></path></svg></span></button></div></div></div><h2 class="anchor anchorWithStickyNavbar_LWe7" id="feedback--questions--concerns">Feedback / Questions / Concerns<a href="#feedback--questions--concerns" class="hash-link" aria-label="Direct link to Feedback / Questions / Concerns" title="Direct link to Feedback / Questions / Concerns"></a></h2><p>We want to hear from you! 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