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Python Microservices Development

You're reading from   Python Microservices Development Build, test, deploy, and scale microservices in Python

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785881114
Length 340 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Tarek Ziadé Tarek Ziadé
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Preface 1. Understanding Microservices 2. Discovering Flask FREE CHAPTER 3. Coding, Testing, and Documenting - the Virtuous Cycle 4. Designing Runnerly 5. Interacting with Other Services 6. Monitoring Your Services 7. Securing Your Services 8. Bringing It All Together 9. Packaging and Running Runnerly 10. Containerized Services 11. Deploying on AWS 12. What Next?

Authentication and authorization


The React dashboard needs to be able to authenticate its users, and perform authorized calls on some microservices. It also needs to let the user grant access to Strava.

We make the assumption that the dashboard only works when you are authenticated, and that there are two kinds of users: first-time user and returning user.

Following is the user story for first-time users:

As a first-time user, when I visit the dashboard, there's a "login" link. When I click on it, the dashboard redirects me to Strava to grant access to my resources. Strava then redirects me back to the dashboard, and I am connected. The dashboard then starts to fill with my data.

As described, our Flask app performs an OAuth2 dance with Strava to authenticate users. Connecting to Strava also means we need to store the access token into the Runnerly user profile so we can use it to fetch runs later on.

Before going further, we need to make a design decision: do we want the dashboard merged with...

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