Feat: Generate Praxis proxy and policy configs from AuthBridge config - #787
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Add authlib/praxis, which converts an AuthBridge config.Config into a
Praxis proxy configuration (github.com/praxis-proxy/praxis), plus a
cmd/authbridge-praxis binary and container image that generate the config
and hand off to Praxis as the data plane.
What is translated faithfully: listener addresses, the application
backend, routing, mTLS posture (permissive -> client_cert_mode: request,
strict -> require, certs from the SPIFFE mirror), and the admin/metrics
endpoint.
Inbound JWT validation is enforced via a generated Praxis *policy
document*: jwt-validation becomes an identity/jwt policy plugin with
on_error: fail, reusing the plugin's own JWKS derivation priority
(explicit jwks_url -> keycloak_url+realm -> issuer) and its OR-semantics
audience union, so the generated policy verifies the same tokens.
Verified end to end against a policy-engine build: unauthenticated
requests get 401 with WWW-Authenticate: Bearer and X-Policy-Violation.
What is NOT translated is reported rather than dropped silently, in
Result.Unmapped, as WARN logs, and as comments in the generated files.
A generated proxy that no longer enforces what AuthBridge enforced is
exactly the kind of difference that must not be discoverable only by
reading the output file. Notably:
- token-exchange (RFC 8693) has no default-build counterpart; Praxis's
policy filter covers delegation but needs APL routes and a delegator.
- The forward proxy resolves each destination at request time, which
Praxis's cluster-selecting router cannot express; the generated
outbound listener carries a static_response placeholder so it is
explicitly closed rather than accidentally open.
- inbound_interception: transparent relies on SO_ORIGINAL_DST.
- audience_file / audience_mode: per-host cannot be resolved at
generation time, so the policy would not validate aud.
- bypass_paths has no identity-plugin equivalent, so health probes to
those paths would now require a token.
Two safety-relevant details are surfaced loudly rather than papered over:
a plaintext http:// JWKS endpoint needs decoding_key.insecure_http (the
policy engine rejects http:// otherwise), and mtls without a spiffe block
means nothing writes /opt/svid.pem.
The admin endpoint binds AuthBridge's health port (9091), not the stats
port, because Praxis's /ready and /healthy correspond to /readyz and
/healthz — so an existing readiness probe keeps working.
The image builds Praxis with --features policy-engine, which is off by
default upstream and is what compiles in the policy filter; a build-time
probe fails the image if that feature did not take effect, since a
default-feature Praxis would reject exactly the configs that need
inbound auth.
Correctness is pinned against the real Praxis binary rather than Go-side
assertions alone: tests shell out to it to validate 13 generated
configurations, covering rules (filter ordering, cluster
cross-references, field names, admin loopback) that no mock could
reproduce. Those tests skip when no binary is available, so CI without a
Rust toolchain still passes.
Signed-off-by: Ed Snible <snible@us.ibm.com>
Assisted-By: Claude (Anthropic AI) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Included review availability: Your plan provides up to 1 included review per hour; 0 remain after this review. 📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughAdded a Praxis conversion package, JWT policy generation, YAML rendering, conversion tests, a generator command, and a container runtime. The generator produces and validates Praxis configuration and policy files, with optional SPIFFE and audience-file handling. ChangesPraxis integration
Estimated code review effort: 5 (Critical) | ~120 minutes Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to The generated deployment can start while configured authentication or authorization enforcement is not translated, allowing requests to bypass intended protection, and it permits plaintext JWKS sources that could enable forged tokens through key substitution. Merge should be blocked until these behaviors are fail-closed or explicitly constrained. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant Entrypoint as entrypoint.sh
participant Generator as authbridge-praxis
participant Converter as ConvertWithPolicy
participant Files as Generated YAML files
participant Praxis as Praxis
Entrypoint->>Generator: Generate configuration and policy
Generator->>Converter: Convert AuthBridge configuration
Converter->>Files: Render configuration and policy
Entrypoint->>Praxis: Validate generated configuration
Entrypoint->>Praxis: exec with generated configuration
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To test this PR: # Build the new image
podman build -f cmd/authbridge-praxis/Dockerfile -t authbridge-praxis:latest .`
# Configure CLI by logging into Kind Keycloak, getting token, adding token to Cortex
rossoctl --context rossoctl-ui.localtest.me login
rossoctl config use-context cortex
rossoctl login --token $(rossoctl --context rossoctl-ui.localtest.me auth token)
# Start an instance of the new image locally running the weather service
export UV_WORKING_DIR=~/src/agent-examples/a2a/weather_service
rossoctl authbridge exec --verbose --proxyContainerImage authbridge-praxis:latest --config https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rossoctl/rossoctl-cli/refs/heads/main/examples/authbridge-local-weather-service-container.yaml -- bash -c 'PORT=8001 MCP_URL=http://localhost:9090/mcp LLM_API_BASE=http://host.docker.internal:11434/v1 uv run --no-sync server'`
# Verify the service is reachable directly
curl localhost:8001/.well-known/agent-card.json | jq
# Verify the service requires auth
docker ps
DYNAMIC_PORT=...
# should return 401
curl localhost:${DYNAMIC_PORT}/.well-known/agent-card.json | jq
# Verify the token we send works
rossoctl a2a send --address http://127.0.0.1:${DYNAMIC_PORT} --message "It is hot in Cairo?" --with-authorization
# (If successful, should report that there is no MCP tool running) |
Dependency Review failed PR rossoctl#787 on a high-severity advisory: authbridge/cmd/authbridge-praxis/go.mod » google.golang.org/grpc@1.82.0 gRPC-Go: xDS RBAC and HTTP/2 Vulnerabilities (high severity) grpc arrives here indirectly via authlib's SPIFFE Workload API client. 1.82.0 is what every other module in the repo already pins, so the advisory is pre-existing repo-wide; it trips the gate here only because a new go.mod presents the dependency as newly added. Bumped to 1.82.1, the first patched version, in this module alone — narrowest change that clears the gate. The other modules still pin 1.82.0 and should be bumped separately. Checked the rest of this module's dependency set against the GitHub advisory DB while here: jsonparser, go-jose, and glog all already sit at or above their patched versions, so grpc was the only real gap. Assisted-By: Claude (Anthropic AI) <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Ed Snible <snible@us.ibm.com>
mlflow.db (plus mlruns/) is MLflow's local tracking store, created by runs in the working tree — local experiment state, not project source. Also extends the existing Go build-artifact list: authbridge-praxis was missing, and `go build ./cmd/...` from authbridge/ writes binaries into that directory rather than each package dir, so those spellings need ignoring too. Both spellings were trivially `git add`-able by mistake. Assisted-By: Claude (Anthropic AI) <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Ed Snible <snible@us.ibm.com>
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Adds slog.Debug lines to authbridge-proxy and authbridge-envoy covering
the two things that are otherwise silent during boot:
- that the config file was loaded, and from which path
- whether the SPIFFE Provider is being constructed, against which
socket, and when it succeeded — plus an explicit line for the
'config does not use SPIFFE' branch
The provider case is the useful one. NewProvider blocks until the SPIRE
Workload API returns the first SVID, so a misconfigured socket looks
identical to a slow cold start: the binary simply hangs with no output.
The before/after pair makes that distinguishable, and the else branch
means 'no SPIFFE' is stated rather than inferred from absent logs.
DEBUG level, so default INFO deployments are unaffected. Visible via
LOG_LEVEL=debug, or by sending SIGUSR1 to a running pod to toggle the
level without a restart.
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Ten review findings, the first several of which were fail-open in the direction that matters most: a generated proxy accepting traffic the AuthBridge config it came from would have rejected. Audience is now a hard error, not a warning (policy.go). TrustedIssuer's Audiences is `omitempty`, so an empty slice omitted the key entirely and the engine accepted ANY token from the trusted issuer — a fail-open weakening of the exact check jwt-validation exists to perform. A warning was the wrong instrument: it is advisory, and the policy still shipped. Both reachable paths are standard shapes, not edge cases (audience_file is the plugin's own default; audience_mode: per-host is the waypoint shape). Missing issuer and undecidable JWKS were already errors; audience now joins them. A test also pins that any emitted policy carries a non-empty audiences key, guarding the omitempty mechanism directly. Algorithms are no longer hardcoded to RS256. AuthBridge does not restrict algorithms at all — its verifier calls jwt.WithKeySet and accepts whatever the JWKS advertises — while the policy engine requires an explicit list. RS256-only meant an ES256 or RS512 realm got a policy rejecting every token AuthBridge accepted: silent total inbound outage. Now defaults to the asymmetric families, reports the default, and honors an `algorithms` field if the plugin ever grows one. HS* stays excluded (symmetric; invites algorithm confusion). The binary-backed test caught that ES512 is NOT a valid engine variant even though RS512/PS512 are — a bug in the first cut of this fix, now pinned against the real engine. JWKS URLs get a scheme allowlist. resolveJWKSURL concatenates raw strings, so a malformed keycloak_url yielded a URL that failed url.Parse, left insecureHTTP false, emitted no warning, and was still written to DecodingKey.URL — an undefined key source that reads as secure. Unparseable, non-http(s), and host-less URLs now fail conversion. transparent_proxy_addr and skip_hosts are now reported (praxis.go). The former is AuthBridge's hard egress guard, deliberately not self-exemptable, and the proxy-sidecar/lite presets default it on — so conversion silently removed a boundary the operator never explicitly enabled, contradicting this PR's stated contract that nothing is dropped silently. The policy filter is gated on the inbound direction. enforced[name] was direction-blind while BuildPolicy reads only inbound plugins, so an outbound jwt-validation emitted a policy filter pointing at an inbound-only document — enforcing the wrong stage's rules on egress and reporting the plugin as translated. Now covered by a test, as the reviewer noted it was not. A missing reverse_proxy_backend now warns. It previously skipped the inbound chain silently while main.go still logged "wrote Praxis policy enforces=[jwt-validation]" — asserting enforcement that did not exist. The transparent branch above it already warned; this restores symmetry. Writes are atomic and stale policies are removed (main.go). The nil-document branch left a previous run's policy in place, which entrypoint's `[ -s ]` check then announced as "policy engine will enforce it" for a file nothing loads. Both files now write via temp-file + fsync + rename, so Praxis — which watches its config and reloads on change — cannot observe a truncated document. The Dockerfile probe is now a positive assertion. It previously passed when output did NOT contain "unknown filter type", failing open on exactly the condition it guards: that string is an upstream format! with no stability guarantee and PRAXIS_REF is overridable, so any rewording would make the gate pass unconditionally. It now validates a complete, valid policy document and requires exit 0 — verified to exit 0 with policy-engine and 1 without. The git fetch fails closed. The all-branch-tips fallback plus `|| checkout FETCH_HEAD` meant a transient tag-fetch failure silently built main, undoing the reproducibility the comment above it promises. Each shape now checks out the ref it fetched, or the build stops. Also documents why rust:1.96-alpine is the one base image without a digest pin: a digest names a single architecture's manifest, and this is the stage that must build from source on both arm64 and amd64. Assisted-By: Claude (Anthropic AI) <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Ed Snible <snible@us.ibm.com>
Lacking a literal audience is no longer a hard error. The previous commit made it one to close a fail-open path, but that overshot: in the common in-cluster shape the audience genuinely exists, it just lives in a file rather than in the YAML. jwt-validation defaults to reading /shared/client-id.txt — the Rossoctl convention, where the operator mounts the workload's Keycloak client ID as a Secret — so refusing to convert those configs rejected the most typical deployment. BuildPolicy and ConvertWithPolicy now take a PolicyOptions carrying an optional AudienceFile, and a policy is produced when EITHER the plugin config names an audience or that file supplies one. Both sources union under jwt-validation's own OR semantics, deduplicated, reusing config.ReadCredentialFile so the trim and empty-file handling match the plugin exactly rather than being reimplemented. Conversion still fails when neither source yields an audience, because that case remains fail-open: Audiences is `omitempty`, so an empty slice omits the key and the engine accepts any token from the trusted issuer. The error now names the flag and path that fix it (--audience-file /shared/client-id.txt, taken from the plugin's own audience_file when set) instead of just refusing. Reading the filesystem is opt-in rather than automatic on the plugin's audience_file: the generator may not run in the pod that will serve traffic, and silently baking in whatever happened to be on the generating machine's disk — under a path the operator never named — would produce a policy whose audience nobody chose. Passing the path is the operator saying "this file is the authority." An explicitly named file that is missing, empty, or whitespace-only is an error, not a fallback. Because the value is resolved once and written into a static document, a warning records that AuthBridge re-reads the file at runtime while the policy does not: rotating the client ID requires regenerating. The container entrypoint passes --audience-file /shared/client-id.txt when that file exists, so the in-cluster shape works with no extra configuration, while standalone runs (no /shared mount) and configs that state their audience inline are unaffected. Verified in-container: a config with only audience_file plus a mounted /shared/client-id.txt now yields `audiences: [agent-team1-weather-service]` and still answers 401 without a token; the same config without the mount fails with the actionable message. Assisted-By: Claude (Anthropic AI) <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Ed Snible <snible@us.ibm.com>
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947-951: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winReal-binary test invocations run without a context deadline. All three call sites use
exec.Command, whichgolangci-lintflags withnoctx. A context deadline also prevents a test hang if the Praxis binary blocks instead of exiting after-t.
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In `@authbridge/authlib/praxis/policy.go`:
- Around line 408-421: Require explicit operator opt-in before generating a
policy with insecure JWKS: add AllowInsecureJWKS to PolicyOptions, propagate the
corresponding CLI flag through the Praxis command entrypoint, and make the
conversion return an error for http:// JWKS URLs unless the option is enabled.
Only set decoding_key.insecure_http and emit the existing warning when the
opt-in is active.
In `@authbridge/cmd/authbridge-praxis/Dockerfile`:
- Line 163: Replace the cd-based directory change in the authbridge-praxis build
step with a WORKDIR set to /app/cmd/authbridge-praxis, then run the existing Go
build command from that working directory while preserving its flags and output
path.
In `@authbridge/cmd/authbridge-praxis/entrypoint.sh`:
- Around line 1-2: Update the shell strict-mode declaration in entrypoint.sh to
include pipefail, using the required set -euo pipefail configuration while
preserving the existing errexit and nounset behavior.
In `@authbridge/cmd/authbridge-praxis/main.go`:
- Around line 278-284: Update the conversion flow around res.Unmapped and
res.Warnings to return a machine-readable conversion error when any unmapped
plugin provides IBAC or token-exchange enforcement, preventing successful Praxis
startup; retain warning-only behavior for unmapped non-enforcement features.
- Around line 110-112: Update the version output in the showVersion branch of
main to print the Praxis binary name, authbridge-praxis, instead of
authbridge-proxy; leave the version value and return behavior unchanged.
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In `@authbridge/authlib/praxis/policy_test.go`:
- Around line 947-951: Replace exec.Command with exec.CommandContext using
bounded t.Context() deadlines for the real-binary invocations at
authbridge/authlib/praxis/policy_test.go:947-951,
authbridge/authlib/praxis/policy_test.go:980-981, and
authbridge/authlib/praxis/praxis_test.go:870-875. Preserve each existing command
and output/error handling while ensuring blocked Praxis processes are terminated
by the test deadline.
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| // The policy engine rejects a plaintext http:// JWKS URL unless | ||
| // insecure_http is set. AuthBridge does not have this guard, so a local / | ||
| // demo config that works under AuthBridge would fail Praxis startup | ||
| // outright. Set the flag to preserve behavior, and say so — over plaintext | ||
| // anyone on the path can swap the key material and forge accepted JWTs. | ||
| insecureHTTP := u.Scheme == "http" | ||
| if insecureHTTP { | ||
| warnings = append(warnings, fmt.Sprintf( | ||
| "jwt-validation JWKS endpoint %q is plaintext http://, so the generated policy sets "+ | ||
| "decoding_key.insecure_http: true (the policy engine rejects http:// JWKS URLs "+ | ||
| "otherwise). Anyone on the network path to that endpoint can substitute key "+ | ||
| "material and forge tokens this proxy will accept. Acceptable for local "+ | ||
| "development; use https for anything else.", jwks)) | ||
| } |
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🔒 Security & Privacy | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win
Automatic insecure_http: true weakens the generated policy without operator consent.
The converter enables insecure_http for every plaintext http:// JWKS URL and records a warning. A warning does not block generation, so a cluster config that uses an http:// Keycloak URL produces a policy that trusts a plaintext key source. Anyone on the network path can then substitute key material and forge accepted tokens, as the warning itself states.
Consider gating this on an explicit opt-in in PolicyOptions, and returning an error otherwise. That keeps the local development path available while preventing a silent downgrade in a real deployment.
🔒 Proposed change
insecureHTTP := u.Scheme == "http"
- if insecureHTTP {
+ if insecureHTTP && (opts == nil || !opts.AllowInsecureJWKS) {
+ return PolicyPlugin{}, nil, fmt.Errorf(
+ "praxis: jwt-validation JWKS endpoint %q is plaintext http://; anyone on the "+
+ "network path can substitute key material and forge accepted tokens. Use https, "+
+ "or pass --allow-insecure-jwks to generate a policy with "+
+ "decoding_key.insecure_http: true for local development", jwks)
+ }
+ if insecureHTTP {
warnings = append(warnings, fmt.Sprintf(Add AllowInsecureJWKS bool to PolicyOptions and plumb a flag through authbridge/cmd/authbridge-praxis/main.go.
As per coding guidelines "Do not bypass authentication or policy for traffic that requires IBAC or token-exchange enforcement".
Also applies to: 514-519
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In `@authbridge/authlib/praxis/policy.go` around lines 408 - 421, Require explicit
operator opt-in before generating a policy with insecure JWKS: add
AllowInsecureJWKS to PolicyOptions, propagate the corresponding CLI flag through
the Praxis command entrypoint, and make the conversion return an error for
http:// JWKS URLs unless the option is enabled. Only set
decoding_key.insecure_http and emit the existing warning when the opt-in is
active.
Source: Coding guidelines
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| ARG GO_BUILD_TAGS="" | ||
| ENV GOWORK=off | ||
| RUN cd cmd/authbridge-praxis && CGO_ENABLED=0 GOOS=linux go build -tags "${GO_BUILD_TAGS}" -ldflags="-s -w" -o /authbridge-praxis . |
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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Use WORKDIR for the generator build directory.
Hadolint reports DL3003 because this command uses cd. Set WORKDIR to /app/cmd/authbridge-praxis before the build command so the Docker lint check passes.
Proposed fix
-RUN cd cmd/authbridge-praxis && CGO_ENABLED=0 GOOS=linux go build -tags "${GO_BUILD_TAGS}" -ldflags="-s -w" -o /authbridge-praxis .
+WORKDIR /app/cmd/authbridge-praxis
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| RUN cd cmd/authbridge-praxis && CGO_ENABLED=0 GOOS=linux go build -tags "${GO_BUILD_TAGS}" -ldflags="-s -w" -o /authbridge-praxis . | |
| WORKDIR /app/cmd/authbridge-praxis | |
| RUN CGO_ENABLED=0 GOOS=linux go build -tags "${GO_BUILD_TAGS}" -ldflags="-s -w" -o /authbridge-praxis . |
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In `@authbridge/cmd/authbridge-praxis/Dockerfile` at line 163, Replace the
cd-based directory change in the authbridge-praxis build step with a WORKDIR set
to /app/cmd/authbridge-praxis, then run the existing Go build command from that
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| #!/bin/bash | ||
| set -eu |
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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Enable pipefail.
Line 2 omits pipefail. Use the required shell strict mode.
As per coding guidelines, “Use shell strict mode: set -euo pipefail.”
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-set -eu
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| set -eu | |
| #!/bin/bash | |
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In `@authbridge/cmd/authbridge-praxis/entrypoint.sh` around lines 1 - 2, Update
the shell strict-mode declaration in entrypoint.sh to include pipefail, using
the required set -euo pipefail configuration while preserving the existing
errexit and nounset behavior.
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| if *showVersion { | ||
| fmt.Println("authbridge-proxy", version) | ||
| return |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Print the Praxis binary name.
Line 111 prints authbridge-proxy for authbridge-praxis --version. This misidentifies the running binary in diagnostics.
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- fmt.Println("authbridge-proxy", version)
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| if *showVersion { | |
| fmt.Println("authbridge-proxy", version) | |
| return | |
| if *showVersion { | |
| fmt.Println("authbridge-praxis", version) | |
| return |
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In `@authbridge/cmd/authbridge-praxis/main.go` around lines 110 - 112, Update the
version output in the showVersion branch of main to print the Praxis binary
name, authbridge-praxis, instead of authbridge-proxy; leave the version value
and return behavior unchanged.
| for _, u := range res.Unmapped { | ||
| slog.Warn("AuthBridge plugin not represented in the generated Praxis config", "detail", u) | ||
| } | ||
| for _, w := range res.Warnings { | ||
| slog.Warn("Praxis config translation note", "detail", w) | ||
| } | ||
| return nil |
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🔒 Security & Privacy | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift
Fail closed for unmapped enforcement plugins.
These lines only log res.Unmapped and then return success. praxis.RenderResult states that unmapped plugins are not enforced, and the entrypoint starts Praxis after this successful exit. If an unmapped plugin provides IBAC or token-exchange enforcement, affected traffic bypasses configured policy.
Expose enforcement omissions as a machine-readable conversion error. Abort generation for those plugins. Keep warnings only for non-enforcement features.
As per coding guidelines, “Do not bypass authentication or policy for traffic that requires IBAC or token-exchange enforcement.”
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In `@authbridge/cmd/authbridge-praxis/main.go` around lines 278 - 284, Update the
conversion flow around res.Unmapped and res.Warnings to return a
machine-readable conversion error when any unmapped plugin provides IBAC or
token-exchange enforcement, preventing successful Praxis startup; retain
warning-only behavior for unmapped non-enforcement features.
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Reviewed at cd252fd. Unusually careful work — the fail-open analysis in policy.go and the positive build-time probe are both better than I normally get to review.
On the two things you flagged for reviewers
insecure_http: true is the right call, and I'd push back on treating it like the audience case. The distinction is downgrade vs parity: with a missing audience AuthBridge does validate aud and the generated policy would not — a real downgrade, correctly a hard error. With a plaintext JWKS URL, AuthBridge fetches over plaintext too (no guard in validation/jwks.go), so the generated config is equally forgeable, not more so. Refusing to convert would reject a config AuthBridge itself accepts. Warning + parity is defensible; the asymmetry with the audience handling is justified, not inconsistent.
mtls: without spiffe: — agreed this is fail-closed (Praxis cannot bind the listener), so a warning is the right instrument.
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Fail-open paths in BuildPolicy |
All hard errors — no issuer, underivable JWKS, malformed/non-http(s) URL, and all three unresolvable-audience variants. The omitempty → "engine accepts ANY token from the issuer" reasoning is correct and is the subtle one worth having caught. |
Is the on_error: "off" skip faithful? |
Yes. ErrorPolicyOff is documented as "not dispatched" and is skipped at pipeline.go:106/149/199. |
| Dockerfile hardening | USER 1001; both runtime stages digest-pinned; the positive policy-engine probe replaces a string-match that would have failed open — that reasoning is right. |
| New module deps | No novel third-party dependencies; every version matches authlib, and the replace is properly justified. |
entrypoint.sh |
set -eu, no pipes so pipefail is moot, fails closed on an empty generated config, exec for PID 1. |
Four non-blocking comments inline.
Summary
Author: esnible (MEMBER — maintainer)
Areas reviewed: Go, Dockerfile, Shell
Agent/IDE config (.claude/.vscode): none
Commits: 6, all signed off
CI status: 19 passing; CodeRabbit still in progress
Assisted-By: Claude Code
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| if p.Name != "jwt-validation" || p.OnError == "off" { |
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suggestion — on_error: observe silently converts to fail-closed, with no warning.
This skips only on_error == "off". An observe entry falls through and gets OnError: policyOnErrorFail below. But ErrorPolicyObserve is documented as "evaluates the plugin normally but turns a Reject into a pass-through" — shadow mode. So an operator canarying jwt-validation in observe, deliberately letting unauthenticated traffic through while they watch the shadow-deny counter, converts to a proxy that 401s all of it.
The direction is safe, and upstream's own comment calls shadowing an auth gate "an authentication bypass dressed as a feature" — so arguably the conversion improves on the input. But it is an unwarned outage, and it is the mirror image of the bypass_paths case this file does warn about ("those paths require a token too… probes will get 401"). Your stated principle — a generated proxy that no longer enforces what AuthBridge enforced must not be discoverable only by reading the output file — cuts both ways: enforcing what AuthBridge deliberately did not enforce deserves the same visibility.
A warning naming the flip would be enough; no behavior change needed.
| # `policy-engine` pulls in the praxis-policy crates (identity/jwt, Cedar PDP, | ||
| # OAuth delegator). Build only the server crate; the workspace's test and | ||
| # benchmark members are not needed for the binary. | ||
| RUN cargo build --release -p praxis-proxy --features policy-engine \ |
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suggestion — cargo build without --locked.
Without --locked (or --frozen), Cargo may update Cargo.lock during resolution, so two builds of the same PRAXIS_REF can compile different transitive crate versions. That undercuts the reproducibility the PRAXIS_REF comment promises, and this stage compiles the binary that terminates inbound auth — the place where dependency drift matters most.
cargo build --locked --release -p praxis-proxy --features policy-engine pins it to upstream's committed lockfile, and fails loudly if the lockfile is stale rather than quietly resolving something else.
| # non-reproducible and could silently pick up a schema change the generator in | ||
| # stage 2 does not emit for. v0.5.3 carries the policy-engine feature and the | ||
| # `policy` filter fields this image's generated configs use. | ||
| ARG PRAXIS_REF=v0.5.3 |
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suggestion — PRAXIS_REF is a mutable ref, and the header comment describes it as something it isn't.
Line 23 says "PRAXIS_REF defaults to a commit rather than a branch so an image rebuild is reproducible", but the default here is the tag v0.5.3. Git tags are movable: upstream can force-update v0.5.3 and a rebuild silently compiles different source. That is weaker than the comment claims, and it is the same class of risk the fetch logic below already guards against for the wrong-ref case.
A commit SHA is the immutable form, and the fetch block already handles it (that is what the second git fetch shape exists for). Pinning the SHA and keeping the tag in a comment for readability gets both. Failing that, the line 23 comment should say "tag" so the guarantee on offer is stated accurately.
| policyModeSequential = "sequential" | ||
| policyOnErrorFail = "fail" | ||
| policyClaimMapperStd = "standard" | ||
| policyDefaultLeewaySec = 60 |
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nit — 60s of leeway where AuthBridge has none, and it isn't warned about.
validation/jwks.go builds its parse options as WithKeySet + WithValidate(true) + WithIssuer and passes no WithAcceptableSkew, so AuthBridge's skew is jwx's default of zero — a token one second past exp is rejected. The generated policy accepts it for another 60 seconds.
Small, and 60s is a defensible value in its own right. It stands out only because every sibling divergence in this file gets a warning: the algorithm set, insecure_http, bypass_paths, the baked-in file audience. Either 0 to match, or a note alongside the others.
Four review findings. on_error: observe now warns (policy.go). Observe is shadow mode: AuthBridge evaluates jwt-validation and may still return Reject, but the framework converts that Reject into a pass-through and counts it as Shadow=true. So an operator canarying jwt-validation in observe is DELIBERATELY admitting unauthenticated traffic while they watch the shadow-deny counter. The entry previously fell through and got on_error: fail, silently inverting that: the generated proxy 401s all of it. Checked for a counterpart before settling on a warning — the policy engine has no dry-run or shadow mode, and its own OnError (fail / ignore / disable) covers plugin *errors*, not deny decisions, so `ignore` cannot emulate it either. Kept as a warning rather than an error because the flip is toward MORE enforcement: the generated proxy is stricter, so nothing AuthBridge would have blocked gets through. It can still cause an outage mid-canary, so the warning names the flip and the 401s explicitly. While there, replaced the `p.OnError == "off"` string literals in both policy.go and praxis.go with pipeline.ErrorPolicyOff via Resolved(), so "" (meaning enforce) is handled by the type rather than by each caller. The cargo build now passes --locked. Pinning the source commit without pinning the lockfile left most of the dependency surface unpinned: cargo was free to resolve newer semver-compatible versions than upstream tested and released, so two builds of the same PRAXIS_REF could ship different dependency trees, and a broken or compromised point release of any transitive crate would be pulled in silently. PRAXIS_REF is now the immutable commit SHA (7c6cef76, release v0.5.3) rather than the tag, matching what the file's own header comment already claimed. A tag is better than a branch but still mutable — it can be force-moved or deleted upstream, which is the same hazard one step removed. The version stays in a comment for readability, on its own line rather than trailing the ARG (an inline comment there is stripped by podman but treated as part of the value by other builders). The fetch's tag form is kept first so a tag-valued override still works; the build log confirms the SHA form takes over and checks out "release: v0.5.3". policyDefaultLeewaySec now explains itself. Upstream treats leeway_seconds: 0 as "use the resolver default", and that default is currently 60s, so 60 is upstream's effective value stated explicitly rather than a departure from it — emitting it keeps the document self-describing and pins the behavior if that internal default changes. The comment also records that this is marginally more permissive than AuthBridge, which sets no skew tolerance and so takes jwx's strict default. Verified by rebuilding the image: the SHA fetch resolves and checks out 7c6cef7, --locked builds clean, the policy-engine gate still passes, and the shipped binary reports "praxis 0.5.3 (7c6cef7)". Assisted-By: Claude (Anthropic AI) <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Ed Snible <snible@us.ibm.com>
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Summary
Adds
authlib/praxis, which converts an AuthBridgeconfig.Configinto aPraxis proxy configuration, plus a
cmd/authbridge-praxisbinary and container image that generate the config andhand off to Praxis as the data plane.
Structural configuration is translated faithfully — listener addresses, the
application backend, routing, mTLS posture, and the admin/metrics endpoint.
Inbound JWT validation is enforced through a generated Praxis policy
document, so the resulting proxy actually rejects unauthenticated requests
rather than merely parsing.
What's here
authlib/praxis/praxis.goConvert(cfg, *Options)+ the Praxis schema typesauthlib/praxis/policy.goBuildPolicy(cfg)— theidentity/jwtpolicy documentauthlib/praxis/render.gocmd/authbridge-praxis/ConvertWithPolicy(cfg, policyPath)produces both documents together, with theproxy config's
policyfilter referencing the policy by path.Mapping
listener.reverse_proxy_addrlisteners[inbound].addresslistener.reverse_proxy_backendload_balancercluster endpointlistener.forward_proxy_addrlisteners[outbound].addressmtls.mode: permissive/strictclient_cert_mode: request/requiretls.certificates/tls.client_ca/healthz,/readyz(:9091)/healthy,/readyjwt-validationidentity/jwtpolicy pluginThe admin endpoint binds AuthBridge's health port (9091), not the stats port
(9093), because
/readyand/healthycorrespond to/readyzand/healthz—so an existing readiness probe keeps working. Only the host is taken from
stats.address, since that carries the operator's reachability intent.What is NOT translated
Reported in
Result.Unmapped, as WARN logs, and as comments in the generatedfiles. A generated proxy that no longer enforces what AuthBridge enforced is
exactly the kind of difference that must not be discoverable only by reading the
output file.
token-exchange(RFC 8693) — no default-build counterpart. Praxis'spolicyfilter covers delegation, but that needs APL routes and a delegatorplugin; a larger translation than JWT identity.
URI / CONNECT), which Praxis's cluster-selecting router cannot express. The
generated outbound listener carries a
static_response: 502placeholder so itis explicitly closed rather than accidentally open.
inbound_interception: transparentrelies onSO_ORIGINAL_DST.audience_file/audience_mode: per-hostcannot be resolved atgeneration time, so the policy would not validate
aud.bypass_pathshas no identity-plugin equivalent — health probes to thosepaths would now require a token.
:9094events API, andtls_bridgeareAuthBridge-specific.
Two things reviewers should look at
A plaintext
http://JWKS endpoint forcesdecoding_key.insecure_http: true— the policy engine rejectshttp://JWKSURLs outright, so a local config that works under AuthBridge would otherwise
fail Praxis startup. Over plaintext anyone on that network path can substitute
key material and forge accepted tokens. Set and warned about explicitly.
mtls:without aspiffe:block means nothing writes/opt/svid.pem, soPraxis cannot bind the listener. Both that case and the subtler
spiffe.mirror_files: false(provider runs, keeps SVIDs in memory) get a warningand an in-file comment.
The policy-engine requirement
Praxis's
policyfilter sits behind thepolicy-enginecargo feature, which isoff in its default feature set; a default build rejects it with
unknown filter type: 'policy'. So:Convertemits thepolicyfilter only when a policy document isgenerated alongside. Without one, auth plugins stay unmapped and the config
still loads on a default-feature build.
--features policy-engine, and a build-timeprobe fails the image if the feature did not take effect — a default-feature
Praxis would reject exactly the configs that need inbound auth.
Testing
Correctness is pinned against the real Praxis binary, not Go-side assertions
alone. Tests shell out to it to validate 13 generated configurations, covering
rules no mock could reproduce (filter ordering, cluster cross-references, field
names, admin loopback, and the policy document itself, which the engine parses at
filter construction). They skip when no binary is available, so CI without a
Rust toolchain still passes;
PRAXIS_BINpoints at one explicitly.Verified live end to end, in-container:
Registered plugin 'jwt-validation' (kind: 'identity/jwt')WWW-Authenticate: Bearer,X-Policy-Violation: auth.malformed_header/ready,/healthy,/metricsall serving on 9091praxisis PID 1 (viaexec), so it drains on SIGTERMNotes
and exits 0; Praxis is the data plane. Exiting 0 is what lets the container
entrypoint chain to Praxis only on success.
cmd/authbridge-praxis/go.modneeded areplacefor the in-treeauthlib(container builds use
GOWORK=off), mirroringcmd/authbridge-proxy.PRAXIS_REF=v0.5.3— a tag, not a branch, so rebuilds arereproducible. Override with
--build-arg PRAXIS_REPO/PRAXIS_REF..github/workflows/build.yaml; happy to follow up. The Ruststage is ~4-5 min uncached.
Assisted-By: Claude (Anthropic AI) noreply@anthropic.com
Also in this PR
Two small changes folded in, unrelated to the Praxis conversion itself:
chore: Ignore mlflow.db and stray cmd binaries—mlflow.db/mlruns/are MLflow's local tracking store. Also extends the existing Go
build-artifact list:
authbridge-praxiswas missing, andgo build ./cmd/...fromauthbridge/writes binaries into that directoryrather than each package dir, so those spellings needed ignoring too.
chore(authbridge): Add debug logging around config load and SPIFFE startup—slog.Debuglines inauthbridge-proxyandauthbridge-envoycovering configload and SPIFFE Provider construction.
NewProviderblocks until the WorkloadAPI returns the first SVID, so a bad socket path is currently
indistinguishable from a slow cold start — the binary just hangs silently.
DEBUG level, so default INFO deployments are unaffected.
fix(praxis): Bump grpc to 1.82.1— clears the Dependency Review gate onGHSA "gRPC-Go: xDS RBAC and HTTP/2 Vulnerabilities" (high). Note the advisory
is pre-existing repo-wide:
authlib,authbridge-proxy,authbridge-envoy,authbridge-cpex, andabctlall still pin the vulnerable1.82.0, and CIwon't flag them because their
go.modfiles aren't changing. Worth a separatePR.
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