Clout Auth Server

A simple plug and play Node micro-service to provide an authentication layer for any project.

Docker

Running this locally

1. Install Docker on your manchine.

2. Clone this repository

   git clone git@github.com:clout-stack/clout-auth-server.git

3. start the build server

   cd clout-auth-server
   docker-compose up

Building for production

Running in production

1. Understand the variables and configure them to point to your production services

   ENV variable	Description
   NODE_ENV	e.g production, development, test
   NODE_PORT	e.g 80
   REDIS_HOST	e.g redislabs.com
   MONGODB_HOST	e.g. redislabs.com
   MONGODB_USER	e.g. USERNAME
   MONGODB_PASS	e.g. PASSWORD
   SESSION_SECRET	e.g. SECRET
   JWT_SECRET_KEY	e.g. SECRET
   JWT_EXPIRES_IN	e.g. 7
   NODE_DEBUG	e.g. clout-js:*

2. Run clout-auth-server container in your machine

Clout PaaS

To use Clout PaaS, ensure you have;

• an account
• clout-cli

You can deploy this application to clout PaaS following these steps.

1. Create a clout.json file with the following contents

   {
       "depends_on": ["mysql", "redis"],
       "environment": {
           "NODE_DEBUG": "",
           "NODE_ENV": "production",
           "SESSION_SECRET": "mysecret",
           "JWT_SECRET_KEY": "mysecretjwt",
           "JWT_EXPIRES_IN": "7"
       }
   }

2. Deploy this application to clout PaaS

   clout publish --project-dir .