This is a sample TypeScript CDK app to show how to set up AWS API Gateway JWT Authorizers using Keycloak as an OIDC provider.
The sample app comprises of the following components:
- DynamoDB table
items
- Lambda function
create-item
- creates an item in DynamoDB table, parses JWT token from the request and uses email claim as a PK attribute (SK attribute is uuid) - Lambda function
get-items
- gets items from DynamoDB table, performs scan operation on the table - API Gateway v2 HTTP service with JWT authorizer
GET /items
- invokesget-items
lambda, publically availablePOST /items
- invokescreate-items
lambda, available to authorized users only
Make sure you have cdk installed and cdk has access to typescript and all nodejs packages are available:
# global setup
npm install -g cdk
npm install -g typescript
# project-specific setup
git clone [email protected]:lukaszbudnik/aws-cdk-items-app.git
cd aws-cdk-items-app
npm link typescript
npm install
# check if cdk can synthesize the stacks
cdk synth
# build create-item lambda - nothing special, but uses uuid to generate unique SK in DynamoDB
cd lib/lambda/create-item
npm install
The cdk will deploy two stacks in your AWS account: Database
and Service
. cdk will take care of provisioning everything, including IAM policies.
In order to deploy JWT Authorizer the following two parameters are required and have to be valid: Service:jwtIssuer
and Service:jwtAudience
.
The JWT Authorizer is validated during the deploy and the deployment will fail if any of the parameters is missing or is invalid. If you don't have OIDC provider at hand, don't worry, I got you covered. See my video which shows how super easy it is to deploy Keycloak cluster to AWS EKS: https://youtu.be/BuNZ7bjbzOQ.
Once you have Keycloak (or any other OIDC provider), pass the issuer URL and audience parameters to the cdk deploy command:
cdk bootstrap
cdk deploy --all \
--parameters Service:jwtIssuer=https://example.com/auth/realms/customer123 \
--parameters Service:jwtAudience=account
The cdk.json
file tells the CDK Toolkit how to execute your app.
npm run build
compile typescript to jsnpm run watch
watch for changes and compilenpm run test
perform the jest unit testscdk deploy
deploy this stack to your default AWS account/regioncdk diff
compare deployed stack with current statecdk synth
emits the synthesized CloudFormation templatecdk destroy
destroys this stack from your default AWS account/region