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Developer Guide

So you want to contribute code to this project? Excellent! We're glad you're here. Here's what you need to do.

Prerequisites

Please make sure to follow the OpenSearch Install Prerequisites before starting for the first time.

This project runs as a plugin of OpenSearch. You can download a minimal release of OpenSearch and then install this plugin there. However, we will compile it using source code so that we are pulling in changes from the latest commit.

Native platforms

Not all platforms natively support OpenSearch, to check distribution avaliability please check these issues.

On MacOS / PC the OpenSearch distribution can be run with docker. This distribution contains the released version of OpenSearch including the security plugin. For development we do not recommend using this docker image.

To get started, follow the getting started section of OpenSearch's developer guide. This will get OpenSearch up and running built from source code. You can skip the ./gradlew check step to save some time. Reach to the point where you can run a successful curl localhost:9200 call. Great! now kill the server with Ctrl+C.

Next, run the following commands to copy the built code (snapshot) to a new folder in a different location. (This where you'll be running OpenSearch service). Run this from the base directory of the OpenSearch fork you cloned above:

export OPENSEARCH_HOME=~/<your-folder-location>/opensearch-*
export OPENSEARCH_BUILD=distribution/archives/darwin-tar/build/install/opensearch-*
cp -Rf $OPENSEARCH_BUILD $OPENSEARCH_HOME

Choose $OPENSEARCH_HOME as the base folder where your server will live, and adjust $OPENSEARCH_BUILD based on your version and OS (this is an example running on MacOS, hence darwin.)

Let's test and see if we can run the server!

cd $OPENSEARCH_HOME
./bin/opensearch

The curl localhost:9200 call should succeed again. Kill the server with Ctrl+c. We are ready to install the security plugin.

Worth noting:
The version of OpenSearch and the security plugin must match as there is an explicit version check at startup. This can be a bit confusing as, for example, at the time of writing this guide, the main branch of this security plugin builds version 1.3.0.0-SNAPSHOT compatible with OpenSearch 1.3.0-SNAPSHOT that gets built from branch 1.x. Check the expected compatible version here and make sure you get the correct branch from OpenSearch when building that project.

Building

First create a fork of this repo and clone it locally. Changing to directory containing this clone and run this to build the project:

./gradlew clean assemble

Install the built plugin into the OpenSearch server:

export OPENSEARCH_SECURITY_HOME=$OPENSEARCH_HOME/plugins/opensearch-security
mkdir $OPENSEARCH_SECURITY_HOME
cp build/distributions/opensearch-security-*.zip $OPENSEARCH_SECURITY_HOME
cd $OPENSEARCH_SECURITY_HOME
unzip opensearch-security-*.zip
rm opensearch-security-*.zip
mkdir $OPENSEARCH_HOME/config/opensearch-security
mv config/* $OPENSEARCH_HOME/config/opensearch-security/
rm -rf config/

Install the demo certificates and default configuration, answer y to the first two questions and n to the last one. The log should look like below:

./tools/install_demo_configuration.sh
OpenSearch Security Demo Installer
 ** Warning: Do not use on production or public reachable systems **
Install demo certificates? [y/N] y
Initialize Security Modules? [y/N] y
Cluster mode requires maybe additional setup of:
  - Virtual memory (vm.max_map_count)

Enable cluster mode? [y/N] n
Basedir: /Users/XXXXX/Test/opensearch-*
OpenSearch install type: .tar.gz on
OpenSearch config dir: /Users/XXXXX/Test/opensearch-*/config
OpenSearch config file: /Users/XXXXX/Test/opensearch-*/config/opensearch.yml
OpenSearch bin dir: /Users/XXXXX/Test/opensearch-*/bin
OpenSearch plugins dir: /Users/XXXXX/Test/opensearch-*/plugins
OpenSearch lib dir: /Users/XXXXX/Test/opensearch-*/lib
Detected OpenSearch Version: x-content-*
Detected OpenSearch Security Version: *

### Success
### Execute this script now on all your nodes and then start all nodes
### OpenSearch Security will be automatically initialized.
### If you like to change the runtime configuration
### change the files in ../config and execute:
"/Users/XXXXX/Test/opensearch-*/plugins/opensearch-security/tools/securityadmin.sh" -cd "/Users/XXXXX/Test/opensearch-*/config/opensearch-security/" -icl -key "/Users/XXXXX/Test/opensearch-*/config/kirk-key.pem" -cert "/Users/XXXXX/Test/opensearch-*/config/kirk.pem" -cacert "/Users/XXXXX/Test/opensearch-*/config/root-ca.pem" -nhnv
### or run ./securityadmin_demo.sh
### To use the Security Plugin ConfigurationGUI
### To access your secured cluster open https://<hostname>:<HTTP port> and log in with admin/admin.
### (Ignore the SSL certificate warning because we installed self-signed demo certificates)

Now if we start our server again and try the original curl localhost:9200, it will fail. Try this one instead: curl -XGET https://localhost:9200 -u 'admin:admin' --insecure. It should succeed.

You can also make this call to return the authenticated user details:

curl -XGET https://localhost:9200/_plugins/_security/authinfo -u 'admin:admin' --insecure

{
  "user": "User [name=admin, backend_roles=[admin], requestedTenant=null]",
  "user_name": "admin",
  "user_requested_tenant": null,
  "remote_address": "[::1]:57755",
  "backend_roles": [
    "admin"
  ],
  "custom_attribute_names": [],
  "roles": [
    "own_index",
    "all_access"
  ],
  "tenants": {
    "global_tenant": true,
    "admin_tenant": true,
    "admin": true
  },
  "principal": null,
  "peer_certificates": "0",
  "sso_logout_url": null
}

Using IntelliJ IDEA

Launch IntelliJ IDEA, choose Project from Existing Sources, and select directory with Gradle build script (build.gradle).

Submitting Changes

See CONTRIBUTING.

Backports

The Github workflow in backport.yml creates backport PRs automatically when the original PR with an appropriate label backport <backport-branch-name> is merged to main with the backport workflow run successfully on the PR. For example, if a PR on main needs to be backported to 1.x branch, add a label backport 1.x to the PR and make sure the backport workflow runs on the PR along with other checks. Once this PR is merged to main, the workflow will create a backport PR to the 1.x branch.