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Version: 3.13

Use multiple OAuth 2.0 servers and/or audiences

Demonstrate how to authenticate using the OAuth 2.0 protocol and several OAuth resources using the following flows:

  • Access AMQP protocol
  • Access Management UI

Prerequisites​

  • Docker

Single OAuth 2.0 vs Multiple OAuth 2.0 resources​

All the examples demonstrated by this tutorial, except for this use case, configure a single resource_server_id and therefore a single OAuth 2.0 server.

You could encounter scenarios where some management users and/or applications are registered in different OAuth2 servers or they could be registered on the same OAuth2 server however they could refer to RabbitMQ with different audience values. When this happens, you have to declare as many OAuth2 resources as audiences and/or authorization servers. The following section demonstrates a scenario where users are declared in Keycloak however they refer to RabbitMQ with two distinct audience, one rabbit_prod and the other rabbit_dev.

AMQP clients and management users registered in same OAuth 2.0 server but with different audience​

RabbitMQ is configured with two OAuth2 resources one called rabbit_prod and another rabbit_dev. For example purposes, let's say, the production team refer to RabbitMQ with the rabbit_prod audience. And the development team with the rabbit_dev audience. As both teams are registered in the same OAuth2 server you are going to configure its settings such as jwks_url at the root level so that both resources share the same configuration.

In the past, RabbitMQ imposed a restriction where the scopes had to be prefixed with the name of the resource/audience. For instance, if resource_server_id was rabbitmq1, all scopes had to be prefixed with the value rabbitmq1, for example rabbitmq1.tag:administrator.

Since RabbitMQ 3.11, you can configure the scope's prefix independent from the resource_id/audience. This is exactly what this scenario uses which configures the scope prefix with the value rabbitmq. so that all scopes, regardless of the resource, have the same prefix.

Test applications accessing AMQP protocol with their own audience​

This is a summary of the configuration, found in rabbitmq.conf:

  • There are two OAuth2 clients (prod_producer and dev_producer) declared in keycloak and configured to access their respective audience: rabbit_prod and rabbit_dev
  • RabbitMQ OAuth2 plugin is configured with two resources: rabbit_prod and rabbit_dev 
    auth_oauth2.resource_servers.1.id = rabbit_prod
    auth_oauth2.resource_servers.2.id = rabbit_dev
  • Also RabbitMQ OAuth2 plugin is configured with common settings for the two resources declared above 
    auth_oauth2.preferred_username_claims.1 = preferred_username
    auth_oauth2.preferred_username_claims.2 = user_name
    auth_oauth2.preferred_username_claims.3 = email
    auth_oauth2.jwks_url = https://keycloak:8443/realms/test/protocol/openid-connect/certs
    auth_oauth2.scope_prefix = rabbitmq.
    auth_oauth2.https.peer_verification = verify_peer
    auth_oauth2.https.cacertfile = /etc/rabbitmq/keycloak-cacert.pem

Follow these steps to deploy Keycloak and RabbitMQ:

  1. Launch Keycloak. Check out Admin page with the credentials admin:admin

    make start-keycloak

  2. Launch RabbitMQ

    export MODE="multi-keycloak"
    make start-rabbitmq

  3. Launch the AMQP producer registered in Keycloak with the client_id prod_producers and with the permission to access the rabbit_prod resource, and with the scopes rabbitmq.read:*/* rabbitmq.write:*/* rabbitmq.configure:*/*

    make start-perftest-producer-with-token PRODUCER=prod_producer TOKEN=$(bin/keycloak/token prod_producer PdLHb1w8RH1oD5bpppgy8OF9G6QeRpL9)

    This is an access token generated for prod_producer.

    {
      "exp": 1690974839,
      "iat": 1690974539,
      "jti": "c8edec50-5f29-4bd0-b25b-d7a46dc3474e",
      "iss": "http://localhost:8081/realms/test",
      "aud": "rabbit_prod",            
      "sub": "826065e7-bb58-4b65-bbf7-8982d6cca6c8",
      "typ": "Bearer",
      "azp": "prod_producer",
      "acr": "1",
      "realm_access": {
        "roles": [
          "default-roles-test",
          "offline_access",
          "producer",
          "uma_authorization"
        ]
      },
      "resource_access": {
        "account": {
          "roles": [
            "manage-account",
            "manage-account-links",
            "view-profile"
          ]
        }
      },
      "scope": "profile email rabbitmq.read:*/* rabbitmq.write:*/* rabbitmq.configure:*/*",
      "clientId": "prod_producer",
      "clientHost": "172.18.0.1",
      "email_verified": false,
      "preferred_username": "service-account-prod_producer",
      "clientAddress": "172.18.0.1"
    }

  4. Similarly, launch AMQP producer dev_producer, registered in Keycloak too but with the permission to access rabbit_dev resource:

    make start-perftest-producer-with-token PRODUCER=dev_producer TOKEN=$(bin/keycloak/token dev_producer z1PNm47wfWyulTnAaDOf1AggTy3MxX2H)

Test Management UI accessed via two separate resources​

This is a summary of the configuration, found in rabbitmq.conf:

  • There are two users declared in Keycloak: prod_user and dev_user
  • The two resources: rabbit_prod and rabbit_dev are declared in the RabbitMQ Management Plugin with their own OAuth2 client (rabbit_prod_mgt_ui and rabbit_dev_mgt_ui) scopes, and the label associated with each resource. 
    management.oauth_resource_servers.1.id = rabbit_prod
    management.oauth_resource_servers.1.client_id = rabbit_prod_mgt_ui
    management.oauth_resource_servers.1.label = RabbitMQ Production
    management.oauth_resource_servers.1.scopes = openid profile rabbitmq.tag:administrator

    management.oauth_resource_servers.2.id = rabbit_dev
    management.oauth_resource_servers.2.client_id = rabbit_dev_mgt_ui
    management.oauth_resource_servers.2.label = RabbitMQ Development
    management.oauth_resource_servers.2.scopes = openid profile rabbitmq.tag:management
  • As there is only one OAuth2 server, both resources share the same provider_url: 
    management.oauth_provider_url = http://0.0.0.0:8081/realms/test
  • Each OAuth2 client, rabbit_prod_mgt_ui and rabbit_dev_mgt_ui, is declared in Keycloak so that they can only emit tokens for their respective audience, be it rabbit_prod and rabbit_dev respectively.

Follow the steps:

  1. Go to the RabbitMQ Management UI
  2. Select RabbitMQ Production resource
  3. Login as prod_user:prod_user
  4. Keycloak prompts you to authorize various scopes for prod_user
  5. You should now get redirected to the Management UI as prod_user user

Now, logout and repeat the same steps for dev_user user. For this user, RabbitMQ is configured to request the rabbitmq.tag:management scope only.

Note: In step 3, if you login as the dev_user, RabbitMQ will not authorize the dev_user because RabbitMQ is configured to request the scope: rabbitmq.tag:administrator for RabbitMQ Production. The dev_user does not have the rabbitmq.tag:administrator scope, it has the rabbitmq.tag:management scope. In this scenario, the dev_user gets a token which has none of the scopes RabbitMQ supports.