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The Authentication Support Service is a generic service that can provides support to offload a service from authentication , and fetching and /refreshing of an authorization token to be used for any service.
A POD running a Service can include this as running in a sidecar container. The container will This Authorization Support Service will then make sure that a valid token is available to the service via by means of a local file (in the POD).
The service will Service can then just read the token from a file and insert it into the HTTP header of each REST call.
The component The Authorization Support Service currently supports authorization using a private shared key and the . The used authorization provider used for testing is Keycloak.
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