MicroserviceAuthenticator

This is a nuget package built in ASP.NET Core to help quickly setup authentication up and running on your Web api app and also secure microservices. It's built on jwtBearer library.

Installation

MicroServiceAuthenticator can be installed via the nuget UI (as MicroServiceAuthenticator), or via the nuget package manager console:

PM> Install-Package MicroServiceAuthenticator

Dependencies

PM> Install-Package Microsoft.AspNetCore.Authentication.JwtBearer -Version 3.1.2

Configuring Settings

{
   "TokenAuthentication": {
    "SecretKey": "secret-key",
    "Issuer": "issuer-app",
    "Audience": "audience-key",
    "ExpirationTime":300
    
  }
}

Usage

After updating the application settings, open the Startup.cs file. Startup class is the heart of ASP.NET Core application’s configuration. First we need to import the MicroServiceAuthenticator namespace.

The most important type in this library is the just adding it to the services configure pipline. Which can be added as shown below:

public ConfigureServices(IServiceCollection services)
{
    services.AddMicroServiceAuthenticator(new TokenProviderOptions
            {
               Issuer =  configuration["TokenAuthentication:Issuer"],
               Audience = configuration["TokenAuthentication:Audience"],
               SecretKey = configuration["TokenAuthentication:SecretKey"],
               ExpirationTime = configuration["TokenAuthentication:ExpirationTime"] 
           });
}

Testing

Place the [Authorize] attribute on the controller you want to authenticate and use the identity service to get your token and set the token to the authorization of the api endpoint and boom you are authenticated successfully.

Contribution

Feel free to send a PR.

Contributors

_{Sunkanmi Ijatuyi}
💻

This project follows the all-contributors specification. Contributions of any kind are welcome!

License

MIT