User Endpoints
RBAC API v1 in Puppet allows you to handle both locally produced and remotely created users on a directory service. You may access user lists and create new local users using the users endpoints.
🔅 GET/users
All users, local and distant, can be fetched (including the superuser). Uses query parameters to filter results by ID. It's essential to authenticate for using this endpoint.
🔅 GET/users/<sid>
Gets a single client by its subject ID (sid). It's essential to authenticate for using this endpoint.
🔅 GET/users/current
The same behavior as GET /users/sid> is used to fetch information about the currently authenticated user, except that <sid> is taken from the authentication context. It's essential to authenticate to this endpoint.
🔅 POST/users
Generate a new local user. Including an array of roles in the role, ids may add the new user to user roles. For the user, you can specify a password in the password endpoint. The password must contain a minimum of six characters to function in the PE console. It's essential to authenticate.
User Group Endpoints
Instead of handling responsibilities for each user individually, groups are used to assign roles to a group of users. You can add a new directory group and receive listings of groups using the groups endpoints.
🔅 GET/groups
It fetches all groups. It also supports filtering by ID through query parameters. It requires authentication.
🔅 GET/groups/<sid>
Gets a single group by its subject ID (sid). It's essential to authenticate for using this endpoint.
🔅 DELETE/groups/<sid>
Removes the user group from RBAC API v1 in Puppet with the supplied ID (sid) without modifying the directory service. It's essential to authenticate to this endpoint.
🔅 POST/group
Creates a new remote group and adds any roles listed in its roles list to the new group. It's essential to authenticate for using this endpoint.
User Roles Endpoints
You may manage users in groups with access permissions to different PE objects by assigning them roles. This improves the organization and manageability of user access tracking. You may access lists of roles and create new roles using the roles endpoints.
🔅 GET/roles
It retrieves all roles together with lists of user and group IDs and permissions. It's essential to authenticate for using this endpoint.
🔅 GET/roles/<rid>
Gets a single role by its subject ID (rid). It's essential to authenticate for using this endpoint.
🔅 POST/roles
It creates a role and assigns the required permissions, users, and groups to it. It's essential to authenticate.
🔅 DELETE/roles/<rid>
The role indicated by the role ID is deleted (rid). Users who hold this position lose it immediately, along with all of the permissions it confers, although their session is unaffected. The new set of permissions the user has without this position determines access to the following request that the user submits.
Password Endpoints
You must create a password reset token for local users in cases when they lose their passwords or accidentally lock themselves out of PE by repeatedly attempting to log in with the wrong credentials. You can create password reset tokens using the password endpoints for a specific local user or with a token that has a temporary password in its body.
🔅 POST /users/:sid/password/reset
For the provided local user, create a one-time password reset token.
The created token has a finite lifespan and can only be used once to reset the password. Based on a configuration variable puppet_enterprise::profile::console::rbac_password_reset_expiration, the lifespan is determined (number of hours). The 24-hour value is the default. It's essential to authenticate.
🔅 POST /auth/reset
Resets a local user's password with the new password in the body using a one-time token received from the /users/:sid/password/reset endpoint. Use of this endpoint does not need authentication.
🔅 PUT /users/current/password
Changes the local user's current password. The current password must be included in the payload. It's essential to authenticate.
Token Endpoints
Authentication tokens can limit a user's access to PE services. Using the token endpoint, users can create their authentication tokens.
🔅 POST /auth/token
For the user whose login information is POSTed, it generates an access token. Then, using either the X-Authentication header or the token query parameter, this token can be used to authenticate requests to PE services.
Directory Service Endpoints
You can test your directory service connection, change the settings for your directory service connection, and obtain information about the directory service using the ds (directory service) API endpoints.
Specify null for the lookup user and leave these fields empty to connect to the directory service anonymously.
🔅 GET /ds
Find out what directory service is connected. It's essential to authenticate.
🔅 GET /ds/test
Perform the connected directory service's connection test. It's essential to authenticate.
🔅 PUT /ds/test
Tests the connection using the supplied settings. It's essential to authenticate.
🔅 PUT /ds
Changes the connection settings for the directory service. It's essential to authenticate.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Puppet?
Puppet is a configuration management program. The main objective is to have a single central server with all important machine configuration information.
Do we need to change the port number in the request if we change the service's port number?
Yes, we need to specify the port number in the request if we change the service's port number.
What are puppet reports?
You can customize the built-in report processors in Puppet. By default, Puppet creates a report after applying a catalog that contains details about the Run, including events, log messages, resource statuses, metrics, and metadata. Each host transmits a YAML dump of its report.
Is Puppet a monitoring tool?
External services can use performance and status metrics from Puppet Server to track the health and performance of a server over time.
What are the three essential principles for RBAC API v1 in Puppet?
The parts of RBAC API v1 in Puppet, for example, job authorizations, user-job, and job connections, simplify it to perform user tasks.
Conclusion
That concludes our article exploring the advanced concepts of RBAC API v1 in Puppet. We went over various endpoints and discussed them in brief. See:
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