Microsoft Entra ID service-to-service authentication playground

This repository provides a playground to experiment with service to service communication between custom services.

The repository contains two small REST API services, implemented in ASP.NET Core:

1. CodeRepositoryService
   • Provides APIs to manage pseudo code repositories
2. CiService
   • Provides APIs to create pseudo jobs for repositories, served by CodeRepository service
   • Communicates either with an app-token, acquired by client_credentials flow, or with an user-token, acquired by on-behalf-of flow

The repository can be used to demo four authentication flows:

1. Authorization code flow using PKCE
   • Using swagger-ui
2. Client credentials flow
   • Using terraform-generated ci-service.client_credentials.for.code-repository-service.sh script and swagger-ui
   • Alternatively implicitly by creating a CiService job, which uses the .NET Microsoft.Identity.Web.DownstreamApi Library
3. On-behalf-of flow
   • Using terraform-generated ci-service.device-code.and.on-behalf-of.flow.for.code-repository-service.sh script and swagger-ui
   • Alternatively implicitly using the .NET Microsoft.Identity.Web.DownstreamApi Library
4. Device code flow
   • Using terraform-generated ci-service.device-code.and.on-behalf-of.flow.for.code-repository-service.sh script and swagger-ui

Getting started

1. Install Azure CLI, Terraform, Docker
2. Login to Azure Tenant with Azure CLI: az login --tenant "${YOUR_TENANT_ID}"
   • Nothing bad will happen if you are signed in to a different tenant by accident. The follwing scripts will simply fail to execute.
3. Create a config.sh file, similar to the config.example.sh.
4. Execute terraform_plan.sh in the project root directory to inspect planned changes in the Azure tenant.
5. Execute setup_and_start.sh in the project root directory.
   • Provisions example App registrations via terraform in target Entra ID directory
   • Creates appsettings.Compose.json in apps/CiService and apps/CodeRepositoryService for docker-compose environment
   • Creates appsettings.Development.json in apps/CiService and apps/CodeRepositoryService for local debugging
   • Starts a swagger-ui on http://localhost:8080
   • Builds and starts CiService and CodeRepositoryService in docker-compose environment
   • Keeps running and prints logs of swagger-ui, ci-service and code-repository-service

Example scenario

1. Open swagger-ui in browser on http://localhost:8080

Create Code Repository

1. Select CodeRepository definition (should be the default)
2. Authorize for code-repository-service application
   1. Click Authorize button to open Available authorizations dialog
   2. Scroll to UserAuthentication form
   3. Select {app-id}/.default scope.
   4. Copy {app-id} into the client_id field
   5. Click Authorize on Available authorizations dialog
   6. Accept consent form for code-repository-service application
      • 
   7. Click Close on Available authorizations dialog
3. Create test repository
   1. Click Try it out on POST /repositories
   2. Enter test as repositoryName
   3. Click Execute button
4. Inspect logs of code-repository-service-1 to see the Bearer token
   • Decode Bearer token. E.g. via https://jwt.io/

   • {
       "aud": "{CODE_REPOSITORY_CLIENT_ID}", // Audience: Client ID of the code repository server application. Other applications must not accept this token.
       "iss": "https://login.microsoftonline.com/{TENANT_ID}/v2.0", // Issuer: Authorization server which issued this token. Is trusted by the code repository server.
       "azp": "{CODE_REPOSITORY_CLIENT_ID}", // Authorized Party: Client ID of the code repository server application.
       "name": "{user_display_name}",
       "oid": "{user_principal_object_id_in_entra_id}",
       "preferred_username": "{preferred_username}",
       "scp": "UserImpersonation.ReadWrite.All", // Scopes: Token authorizes to perform read and write operations on behalf of the user. This scope is only valid for the specfic audience (in this case the code repository service)!
       "sub": "{application_scoped_user_id_string}",
       "tid": "{TENANT_ID}",
       [...]
     }
     

5. Create code resource via PUT /repositories/{repositoryName}/code endpoint for the test repository and with any content

Create Job for test repository, authenticating to CodeRepositoryService via app token

1. Select CiService definition in swagger-ui
2. Authorize for ci-service application
   1. Click Authorize button to open Available authorizations dialog
   2. Scroll to UserAuthentication form
   3. Select {app-id}/.default scope.
   4. Copy {app-id} into the client_id field
   5. Click Authorize on Available authorizations dialog
   6. Accept consent form for ci-service application
      • 
      • 
   7. Click Close on Available authorizations dialog
3. Create job for test repository with any command and with impersonateUser=false
4. Inspect logs of ci-service-1 to see the Bearer token
   • Decode Bearer token. E.g. via https://jwt.io/

   • {
       "aud": "{CI_SERVICE_CLIENT_ID}", // Audience: Client ID of the ci service application. Other applications must not accept this token.
       "iss": "https://login.microsoftonline.com/{TENANT_ID}/v2.0", // Issuer: Authorization server which issued this token. Is trusted by the ci service.
       "azp": "{CI_SERVICE_CLIENT_ID}", // Authorized Party: Client ID of the ci service application.
       "name": "{user_display_name}",
       "oid": "{user_principal_object_id_in_entra_id}",
       "preferred_username": "{preferred_username}",
       "scp": "UserImpersonation.ReadWrite.All", // Scopes: Token authorizes to perform read and write operations on behalf of the user. This scope is only valid for the specfic audience (in this case the ci service)!
       "sub": "{application_scoped_user_id_string}",
       "tid": "{TENANT_ID}",
     }
     

5. Inspect logs of code-repository-service-1 to see the Bearer token
   • Decode Bearer token. E.g. via https://jwt.io/

   • {
       "aud": "{CODE_REPOSITORY_CLIENT_ID}",  // Audience: Client ID of the code repository server application. Other applications must not accept this token.
       "iss": "https://login.microsoftonline.com/{TENANT_ID}/v2.0",
       "azp": "{CI_SERVICE_CLIENT_ID}", // Authorized Party: Client ID of the ci service application.
       "oid": "{ci_service_principal_object_id_in_entra_id}",
       "roles": [
         "Repositories.Code.Read.All" // ci-service has the code-repsitory-service app role "Repositories.Code.Read.All" assigned. Therefore it is allowed to read the repository code of any user.
       ],
       "sub": "{ci_service_principal_object_id_in_entra_id}",
       "tid": "{TENANT_ID}",
       [...]
     }
     

Create Job for test repository, authenticating to CodeRepositoryService on-behalf of the user via a user token