Configuration

The CM loads configuration data from a file (typically backed by a Kubernetes config map). If the service is unable to retrieve the configuration data, it will not start. Refer to the configuration for details.

Service configuration structure

The recommended configuration format is YAML. The below sections describe the officially supported configuration options that influence various aspects of the service functionality. The service may support options other than the ones listed below, but those are not a part of the public API and may be changed or deleted at any time.

General service configuration

CM uses a standard Spring Boot server.port property to configure the port to expose the REST API at.

The service-specific configuration properties are located under kaa.cm.

server:
  port: <unsigned short integer>  # Server port used to expose the REST API at

kaa:
  cm:
    ep-token:
      length: <integer>           # Controls the length of CM-generated endpoint tokens

Kaa applications

Many Kaa services can be configured for different behavior depending on the application version of the endpoint the processed data relates to. This is called appversion-specific behavior and is handled in service configurations under kaa.applications. Alternatively, the application-specific configuration can be sourced from Kaa Tekton. See the Tekton configuration section to find out how to configure such integration.

kaa:
  applications:
    <application 1 name>:
      versions:
        <application 1 version 1 name>:

Tekton

CM supports integration with Kaa Tekton for centralized application configuration management. The below configuration options set up the integration interface.

kaa:
  tekton:
    enabled: <boolean>    # Enables Tekton integration. False by default. Also can be set with the KAA_TEKTON_ENABLED environment variable.
    url: <string>         # URL of the Tekton service. "http://tekton" by default. Also can be set with the KAA_TEKTON_URL environment variable.
  scmp.consumer:
    provider.service-instance.name: <string>  # Service instance name of the Tekton service. "tekton" by default. Also can be set with the KAA_SCMP_CONSUMER_PROVIDER_SERVICE_INSTANCE_NAME environment variable. 

Endpoint register interface

Use the below parameters to configure the REST-based endpoint register interface CM uses to listen to EP unregistered events.

kaa:
  cm:
    ep-register:
      service-instance:
        name: <service instance name>  # Instance name of the endpoint register

Data persistence interface

CM uses Spring Boot datasource configuration. Refer to the corresponding documentation for the list of supported configuration options.

NOTE For security reasons, username and password must be sourced from the environment variables.

NOTE CM has been tested with MariaDB data source only.

NATS

The below parameters configure CM’s connection to NATS.

NOTE For security, reasons NATS username and password are sourced from the environment variables.

nats:
  urls: <comma separated list of URL>                  # NATS connection URLs
  request-timeout: <unsigned integer>                  # How long to wait for a response message (in msec). Default is 10000.
  concurrency:
    max-threads: <unsigned integer>                    # The maximum number of threads to read and process incoming messages. Default is 50.
    core-pool-size: <unsigned integer>                 # The number of threads to keep in the pool, even if they are idle. Default is 3.
    keep-alive-time-millis: <unsigned integer>         # When the number of threads is greater than the core, this is the maximum time that excess idle threads will wait for new tasks before terminating. Default is 10000.

Authentication, authorization, and multi-tenancy

CM supports two integrations for security:

  • OAuth2 protocol with a UMA profile. Enabled when kaa.security.enabled is true and kaa.security.iamcore.enabled is false.
  • iamcore. Enabled when both kaa.security.enabled and kaa.security.iamcore.enabled are true.

OAuth2 with UMA profile

Authentication and authorization is handled within the scope of a given Kaa tenant. Each tenant has a separate OAuth 2.0 issuer, managed by the Kaa Tenant Manager. When multi-tenancy is disabled, all authentication and authorization is conducted in the default system tenant (“kaa”).

CM OAuth2 with UMA profile security is controlled with the following configuration options (for security reasons it is advised to set these via environment variables).

kaa:
  security:
    enabled: <boolean>      # Enables authentication and authorization. False by default.
    issuer:
      public-url: <string>  # OAuth 2.0 issuer public URL for the system tenant ("kaa").
      private-url: <string> # OAuth 2.0 issuer private URL for the system tenant ("kaa").
    client-id: <string>     # Client ID for making requests in the system tenant scope.
    client-secret: <string> # Client secret for making requests in the system tenant scope.
    multitenancy:
      enabled: <boolean>    # Enables multitenancy via integration with the Kaa Tenant Manager. Only effective when kaa.security.enabled is set to true. False by default.
      tenant-manager:
        url: <string>       # URL of the Kaa Tenant Manager that provides security configurations for tenants. "http://tenant-manager" by default.

iamcore

Authentication and authorization is handled by iamcore.

CM iamcore security is controlled with the following configuration options (for security reasons it is advised to set these via environment variables).

kaa:
  security:
    enabled: <boolean>      # Enables authentication and authorization. False by default.
    iamcore:
      enabled: <boolean>    # Enables iamcore integration. False by default.
      api-key: <string>     # iamcore API KEY
      url: <string>         # iamcore server URL. "https://cloud.iamcore.io" by default.
      application: <string> # iamcore application. "kaa" by default

Authorization disabling

It is possible to disable authorization on CM’s REST API endpoints. In such a case only authentication will be applied.

The below parameter disables authorization.

kaa:
  security:  
    authz:
      disabled: <boolean>  # Disables authorization.

NOTE Authorization disabling may significantly improve CM’s REST API response time depending on the particular REST API endpoint since it disables the permission evaluation on the resource server.

Management

CM monitoring and management implementation is based on the Spring Boot Actuator. Refer to the corresponding documentation for the list of supported configuration options.

Logging

By default, CM uses Spring Boot logging configuration with logback for logging. Refer to the corresponding documentation for the list of supported configuration options.

Built-in configuration profiles

For your convenience, CM comes with a default built-in configuration profile. You can control which profiles are enabled with spring.profiles.active parameter.

Built-in profiles are optimized for a Kubernetes-based production deployment. They do not define any Kaa applications—you have to configure them for a specific Kaa-based solution.

Default

server:
  port: 80

kaa:
  cm:
    ep-token:
      length: 10
    ep-register:
      base-url: http://epr
      service-instance:
        name: epr

spring:
  datasource:
    url: jdbc:mariadb://mariadb:3306/cm

nats:
  urls: nats://nats:4222
  request-timeout: 10000
  concurrency:
    max-threads: 50
    core-pool-size: 3
    keep-alive-time-millis: 10000

management:
  server:
    port: 8080
  endpoint:
    health:
      enabled: true
      show-details: always
      status:
        http-mapping:
          UNKNOWN: 503
    shutdown:
      enabled: true
    metrics:
      enabled: true
  endpoints:
    web:
      base-path: /
      exposure:
        include: info,health,metrics