Auth Module: Guest Provider

This module provides a guest auth provider implementation for @backstage/plugin-auth-backend. This is meant to supersede the existing 'guest' option for authentication that does not emit tokens and is completely stored as frontend state.

Installation

First add the package itself to your backend dependencies:

# From your Backstage root directory
yarn --cwd packages/backend add @backstage/plugin-auth-backend-module-guest-provider
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Then import it into your backend

// In packages/backend/src/index.ts
const backend = createBackend();
backend.add(import('@backstage/plugin-auth-backend-module-guest-provider'));
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And finally make sure to enable it in your config:

# In app-config.yaml - NOT app-config.production.yaml
auth:
  providers:
    guest: {}
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Notice the double curly braces, which correspond to an empty object. This sets everything up using the default settings, which are:

• The user is signed in as a user with the ref user:development/guest
• The user only claims ownership through that ref
• The sign in will only work in development mode; if you try to enable it in production it will refuse to sign you in for security reasons.

See the config schema for details about the available options. If you add options to your app-config file under the guest key, remember to remove the double curly braces as well.

Links

• Backstage
• Repository