fake-proxy-broker

fake-proxy-broker

This is a fake service broker for creating proxy credentials which target a valid host (set in host) and optionally simulate fake user/password and subdomain.

Installation on a cloud foundry

1. Get latest releases in releases page (only build is linux amd64)
2. Unzip if you choose zipped version
3. Create a user provided service to manage your configuration, you can use the file included in the repo and run cf cups <my-proxy-broker>-config -p service.json
4. cf push mybroker -c ./fake-proxy-broker
5. register your broker: cf create-service-broker myproxybroker <broker username> <broker password> <broker url>
6. enable service: cf enable-service-access <proxy name>

Config file

Explanation of the config file given in /service.json:

{
  "broker_username": "user",
  "broker_password": "password",
  "proxy": {
    "name": "myproxy",
    "description": "description of my proxy",
    "host": "my.proxy.host",
    "port": 3128,
    "protocol": "http",
    "random_subdomain": true,
    "random_user": true
  }
}

• name (Required): Name of your proxy, will be use in catalog and plans
• description (Optional): Description of your service and plan
• host (Required): Real host pointing to an existing proxy
• port (Optional, Default: 3128): Port of the real host
• protocol (Optional, Default: http): Protocol used for proxying
• random_subdomain (Optional): If set to true it will add a generated subdomain in binding credentials on host. e.g.: configured host is my.proxy.host credentials will be <generated>.my.proxy.host
• random_user (Optional): If set to true it will add a generated user and password in binding credentials.