Running Flowable as a Micro-service

Flowable Engine
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Hello!
We want run Flowable as a microservice (for workflows a BPM engine is apt) amongst the other services we have or/and eventually may build.

Flowable REST API:
The REST APIs provided by Flowable are authenticated with HTTP Basic Authentication. Is there a way this can be disabled or configured to use an existing auth service we already have?

User/Group database and Auth:
Can we have the Flowable REST API querying an existing user/group database instead of a local database Flowable is attached to?

Thanks,
harsha

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Hello,
If anyone is running Flowable as a microservice with an external auth service, your thoughts/ideas on this matter would be really appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

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The rest application uses by default basic auth in the configuration, see https://github.com/flowable/flowable-engine/blob/master/modules/flowable-app-rest/src/main/java/org/flowable/rest/conf/SecurityConfiguration.java

Spring Security is used there, so anything that Spring security supports is possible.

You can easily define your own application + Configuration classes to use them in a different way and by depending on the rest classes by adding the flowable-rest dependency (see https://github.com/flowable/flowable-engine/blob/master/modules/flowable-app-rest/pom.xml#L501)

Alternatively, you can add your own configuration by adding it to a package that is scanned on boot (https://github.com/flowable/flowable-engine/blob/master/modules/flowable-app-rest/src/main/java/org/flowable/rest/conf/ApplicationConfiguration.java#L17)

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@joram, Thank you for these pointers! They are a great starting point for me. Can’t underscore enough because I am new to the Java/Spring world as well.

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No problem. if you’re stuck somewhere along the road, post here so we and other people can help you.