grpc-private-bff-example

grpc-private-bff-example

⚠ !!! DO NOT USE IN PRODUCTION !!! ⚠

sequenceDiagram
    participant Client
    participant BFF
    participant SA as Invoker Service Account
    participant Server

    Note over Client,Server: initialize BFF
    BFF->>SA: Get ID token
    SA-->>BFF: ID token

    Note over Client,Server: request from client

    Client->>BFF: HTTP/JSON request
    BFF->>Server: gRPC request with ID token
    Server-->>BFF: gRPC response
    BFF->>Client: HTTP/JSON response

Usage

• You need to have
  • a valid GCP account
    • authenticated by gcloud auth application-default login
  • Docker environment in your local machine

Server

• Deploy server to Cloud Run

PROJECT_ID=xxx make deploy

• Remember Cloud Run service domain (exclude https:// from service URL)
  • e.g. xxx-yyy.a.run.app
• Create service account cloud-run-invoker@<PROJECT_ID>.iam.gserviceaccount.com
• Grant roles/run.invoker role of the deployed Cloud Run app to the above service a ccount
• Grant roles/iam.serviceAccountTokenCreator of the above service account to your GCP user account
  • Note that roles/owner does NOT have permission to impersonate a certain service account (i.e. iam.serviceAccounts.getAccessToken)

BFF

• Run BFF
  • CLOUD_RUN_ENDPOINT: The Cloud Run app domain
  • IMPERSONATE_SA_EMAIL: The email address of the above service acccount

make build-bff-image
CLOUD_RUN_ENDPOINT=xxx-yyy.a.run.app IMPERSONATE_SA_EMAIL=cloud-run-invoker@xxx.iam.gserviceaccount.com make run-bff-image

• Call service endpoint through BFF

$ curl localhost:8080/v1/hello/sayhello/dtan4
{"message":"Hello, dtan4"}