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Customizing roles and authorizationedit
If you need to retrieve user roles from a system not supported out-of-the-box or if the authorization system that is provided by the Elasticsearch security features does not meet your needs, a SPI loaded security extension can be implemented to customize role retrieval and/or the authorization system. The SPI loaded security extension is part of an ordinary elasticsearch plugin.
Implementing a custom roles provideredit
To create a custom roles provider:
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Implement the interface
BiConsumer<Set<String>, ActionListener<Set<RoleDescriptor>>>
. That is to say, the implementation consists of one method that takes a set of strings, which are the role names to resolve, and an ActionListener, on which the set of resolved role descriptors are passed on as the response. -
The custom roles provider implementation must take special care to not block on any I/O
operations. It is the responsibility of the implementation to ensure asynchronous behavior
and non-blocking calls, which is made easier by the fact that the
ActionListener
is provided on which to send the response when the roles have been resolved and the response is ready.
To package your custom roles provider as a plugin:
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Implement an extension class for your roles provider that implements
org.elasticsearch.xpack.core.security.SecurityExtension
. There you need to override one or more of the following methods:@Override public List<BiConsumer<Set<String>, ActionListener<Set<RoleDescriptor>>>> getRolesProviders(Settings settings, ResourceWatcherService resourceWatcherService) { ... }
The
getRolesProviders
method is used to provide a list of custom roles providers that will be used to resolve role names, if the role names could not be resolved by the reserved roles or native roles stores. The list should be returned in the order that the custom role providers should be invoked to resolve roles. For example, ifgetRolesProviders
returns two instances of roles providers, and both of them are able to resolve roleA
, then the resolved role descriptor that will be used for roleA
will be the one resolved by the first roles provider in the list.
Implementing an authorization engineedit
To create an authorization engine, you need to:
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Implement the
org.elasticsearch.xpack.core.security.authz.AuthorizationEngine
interface in a class with the desired authorization behavior. -
Implement the
org.elasticsearch.xpack.core.security.authz.Authorization.AuthorizationInfo
interface in a class that contains the necessary information to authorize the request.
To package your authorization engine as a plugin:
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Implement an extension class for your authorization engine that extends
org.elasticsearch.xpack.core.security.SecurityExtension
. There you need to override the following method:@Override public AuthorizationEngine getAuthorizationEngine(Settings settings) { ... }
The
getAuthorizationEngine
method is used to provide the authorization engine implementation.
Sample code that illustrates the structure and implementation of a custom authorization engine is provided in the elasticsearch repository on GitHub. You can use this code as a starting point for creating your own authorization engine.
Implement an elasticsearch pluginedit
In order to register the security extension for your custom roles provider or authorization engine, you need to also implement an elasticsearch plugin that contains the extension:
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Implement a plugin class that extends
org.elasticsearch.plugins.Plugin
- Create a build configuration file for the plugin; Gradle is our recommendation.
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Create a
plugin-descriptor.properties
file as described in Help for plugin authors. -
Create a
META-INF/services/org.elasticsearch.xpack.core.security.SecurityExtension
descriptor file for the extension that contains the fully qualified class name of yourorg.elasticsearch.xpack.core.security.SecurityExtension
implementation - Bundle all in a single zip file.
Using the security extensionedit
To use a security extension:
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Install the plugin with the extension on each node in the cluster. You run
bin/elasticsearch-plugin
with theinstall
sub-command and specify the URL pointing to the zip file that contains the extension. For example:bin/elasticsearch-plugin install file:///<path>/my-extension-plugin-1.0.zip
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Add any configuration parameters for implementations in the extension to the
elasticsearch.yml
file. The settings are not namespaced and you have access to any settings when constructing the extensions, although it is recommended to have a namespacing convention for extensions to keep yourelasticsearch.yml
configuration easy to understand.For example, if you have a custom roles provider that resolves roles from reading a blob in an S3 bucket on AWS, then you would specify settings in
elasticsearch.yml
such as:custom_roles_provider.s3_roles_provider.bucket: roles custom_roles_provider.s3_roles_provider.region: us-east-1 custom_roles_provider.s3_roles_provider.secret_key: xxx custom_roles_provider.s3_roles_provider.access_key: xxx
These settings are passed as arguments to the methods in the
SecurityExtension
interface. - Restart Elasticsearch.