backstage/plugins/auth-backend-module-guest-provider

Auth Module: Guest Provider

This module provides a guest auth provider implementation for @backstage/plugin-auth-backend. This is meant to supersede the existing 'guest' option for authentication that does not emit tokens and is completely stored as frontend state.

NOTE: This provider should only ever be enabled for development. This package is explicitly disabled for non-development environments.

Installation

Backend

New Backend

const backend = createBackend();
...

+backend.add(import('@backstage/plugin-auth-backend-module-guest-provider'));

...
backend.start();

Frontend

Add the following to your SignInPage providers,

const providers = [
+  'guest',
   ...
]

Config

Similar to the other authentication providers, you have to enable the provider in config. Add the following to your app-config.local.yaml,

auth:
    providers:
+       guest:
+           development: {}

We need to specify that the provider is enabled for the given environment, and as there are no config values for this provider yet, you can just specify an empty object.

Links

• Backstage
• Repository