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Following section shows how to configure the Spring Boot server.

Liquibase🔗

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Metrics🔗

Since Chutney relies on Spring Boot Actuator and Micrometer autoconfiguration, it includes Prometheus by default.
So you can find and use default metrics : JVM, System, Datasource, Loggers, Executors and Spring MVC metrics.

Moreover, Chutney provides following metrics and corresponding Micrometer tags :

  • scenario_execution_count counter (execution status, scenario id, scenario tags) is incremented after a scenario execution.
  • scenario_execution_timer timer (execution status, scenario id, scenario tags) is recorded after a scenario execution.
  • scenario_in_campaign_gauge gauge (campaign id, execution status) counts the scenario execution status after a campaign execution.
  • campaign_execution_count counter (campaign id, campaign title, execution status) is incremented after a campaign execution.
  • campaign_execution_timer timer (campaign id) is recorded after a campaign execution.

Important

We won't thoroughly document how to collect and manage your metrics outside Chutney (even if the demo includes one).
Some hints could be :

  • Use the Actuator Prometheus endpoint to get the metrics with the appropriate format
  • Use push solution (Prometheus Pushgateway or custom)

Authentication🔗

Important

Maven module local-dev shows :

  • How to use in memory authentication and roles, see the mem-auth profile
  • How to use a custom LDAP authentication (for example purpose, it uses an embedded LDAP server)
  • How to use a OIDC provider authentication (for example purpose, it uses a local server)

Chutney uses Spring Security for :

  • Basic authentication
  • Enforce authentication and check authorization on API (ex. admin rights Spring Boot Actuator endpoints)
  • Configuring in memory users and roles with the Spring profile mem-auth if needed
How to use in memory Spring profile mem-auth
  • Activate the profile
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spring:
    profiles:
        active:
          - mem-auth
  • Declare users and roles
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chutney:
  security:
    users:
      -
        id: user
        name: user
        firstname: user
        lastname: user
        mail: user@user.com
        password: user-password-bcrypt
        roles: # (1)!
          - role-with-admin-in-it
  1. Optional, if the role include the characters 'admin', ignoring case, all permissions will be granted to that user.

Warning

If you create a role name including characters 'admin' (ignoring case), all permissions will be granted to users with this role.

If you want to add another authentication mechanism, you should follow the Spring security architecture.

Authentication requirements

The principal build by the authentication mechanism must be an instance of the Chutney UserDto.

User roles and permissions are configured either with Web app form or by editing the file.

One could use the existing AuthenticationService Chutney Spring Bean to retrieve Chutney roles by user id and grant associated authorities.

How to manage permissions

  • A user can only have one role
  • Chutney permissions are defined in the Authorization class.
  • The static grantAuthoritiesFromUserRole method of UserDetailsServiceHelper class could be used to have the same authentication process than mem-auth profile,
    i.e. if the user has a role name containing the characters 'admin', ignoring case, user will be given all authorities available, else he will be given the authorities associated by the role retrieved by the AuthenticationService.

Compression🔗

Spring Boot allows to configure compression on HTTP responses payloads.

Chutney Server stores scenarios executions reports and send them over the network, so it could be useful to use this configuration.

Server compression configuration

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server:
    compression:
        enabled: true
        mime-types: text/html,text/xml,text/plain,text/css,text/javascript,application/javascript,application/json # (1)
        min-response-size: 1024 # (2)
  1. The mime-types you want to compresse
  2. The minimum content length required for compression

Session management🔗

Spring Boot allows to configure session management.

Server session configuration (with cookie)

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server:
    servlet:
        session:
            timeout: 240m # (1)
            tracking-modes: cookie
        cookie:
            http-only: true # (2)
            secure: true # (3)
  1. The session timeout in minutes (example is 4 hours)
  2. Forbids Javascript to access the cookie
  3. Only for HTTPS requests

Actuator🔗

Spring Boot provides production-ready features with the Actuator module. Since Chutney includes this module, you can also configure it.

Actuator configuration examples

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management:
    server:
        port: -1
    endpoints:
        enabled-by-default: false
        web:
            exposure:
                exclude: "*"
        jmx:
            exposure:
                exclude: "*"

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management:
    endpoints:
        web:
            exposure:
                include: "*"
    endpoint:
        health:
            show-details: always

Warning

Chutney enforces ADMIN_ACCESS permissions on all default Actuator endpoints.

Specifics values🔗

Following table shows all properties you can set to configure Chutney.

Name Description Default value
chutney.configuration-folder Local directory path to data and configuration files ~/.chutney/conf
chutney.environment.configuration-folder Local directory path to environments data files ~/.chutney/conf/environment
chutney.jira.configuration-folder Local directory path to jira data files ~/.chutney/conf/jira
chutney.server.execution.async.publisher.ttl Time to live in seconds of a finished observable scenario execution 5
chutney.server.execution.async.publisher.debounce Window time in milliseconds in which a running observable scenario execution ignores new associated engine report 250
chutney.server.campaigns.executor.pool-size Pool size of campaigns' executor 20
chutney.server.scheduled-campaigns.fixed-rate Fixed time period for scheduled campaigns execution checking 60000
chutney.server.scheduled-campaigns.executor.pool-size Pool size of scheduled campaigns' executor 20
chutney.server.schedule-purge.cron Purge launch cron planification 0 0 1 * * *
chutney.server.schedule-purge.timeout Timeout in seconds for purge (+ retries) 600
chutney.server.schedule-purge.retry Number of max purge retries 2
chutney.server.schedule-purge.max-scenario-executions Number of max scenario executions to keep when purging 10
chutney.server.schedule-purge.max-campaign-executions Number of max campaign executions to keep when purging 10
chutney.server.agent.name Default name of local agent
chutney.server.agent.hostname Default hostname of local agent
chutney.server.agent.network.connection-checker-timeout Socket timeout in milliseconds for agent networking management actions 1000
chutney.server.editions.ttl.value Time to live value of unclosed scenario's editions 6
chutney.server.editions.ttl.unit Time to live time unit of unclosed scenario's editions HOURS
chutney.engine.executor.pool-size Pool size of scenarios' executor 20
chutney.engine.delegation.user Username of engine's delegation service HTTP client
chutney.engine.delegation.password Password of engine's delegation service HTTP client
chutney.engine.reporter.publisher.ttl Time to live in seconds of the engine's executions' reports 5
chutney.actions.sql.max-logged-rows Max logged rows in report for SQL action 30