Kong is a scalable, open source API Layer (also known as an API Gateway, or API Middleware). Kong was originally built at [Mashape][mashape-url] to secure, manage and extend over 15,000 APIs & Microservices for its API Marketplace, which generates billions of requests per month.
Backed by the battle-tested NGINX with a focus on high performance, Kong was made available as an open-source platform in 2015. Under active development, Kong is now used in production at hundreds of organizations from startups, to large enterprises and government departments.
The JWT upstream plugin has been developed to provide a JWT towards upstream APIs - registered on Kong - without worrying about the authentication plugin used by a consumer.
More information can be found on the jwt-up wiki page
Only works from Kong 0.8.0. You can not use the JWT-up plugin in combination with the JWT plugin. This is because the JWT-up by default validates HS256 incoming JWT and implicitly generates a RS256 token for upstream APIs. The JWT-up can be used in order to have 2 types of consumers:
- consumer applications, using a key-auth policy to reqeust a service
- end-user consumers, using a consumer application, in order to request a service
Both authentication means can be different:
- consumer applications: uses only key-auth
- end-user consumer: uses JWT received after successful login
Both will result - after applying the JWT-up - in a RS256 JWT - enriched - send to upstream API.
Update to Kong 0.9.0 At the moment we need to provide the certificates hardcodes in the fixtures files. This is due to a cert upload issue we have using Kong 0.8.0
Update JWT time to use ngx.time to be compliant with epoch spec.
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