Secure Password Generator

REST API (and CLI tool) to generate secure passwords written in Go.

Features

• Allow specification of minimum length
• Allow specification of number of special characters
• Allow specification of number of numeric characters
• Allow generation of multiple passwords in one go
• Unit tested (table-driven testing)
• Automated Kubernetes deployment

Usage

To use the command-line (CLI) tool:

# Build the tool for your platform
go build .
# Start REST API Server at http:localhost:8080
./go-password-generator
# Generate a single 8-character password with 2 special characters and 2 numerals
./go-password-generator generatePassword

REST API

To generate passwords via the REST API, you need to first startup the server:

./go-password-generator

Then make a POST request to http://localhost:8080/api/v1/password with a JSON body like:

{
    "min_length": 8,
    "special_characters_count": 2,
    "numbers_count": 2,
    "pwds_to_create": 3
}

A sample curl request is:

curl --request POST \
  --url http://localhost:8080/api/v1/password \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --data '{
	"min_length": 8,
	"special_chars_count": 2,
	"numbers_count": 1,
	"pwds_to_create": 3
}'

CLI Tool

To generate passwords with the CLI tool:

# Generate 5 8-character passwords with 2 special characters and 1 numeral each
./go-password-generator generatePassword -m 8 -c 2 -n 1 -p 5
# To get usage help
./go-password-generator help

Running Tests

To run tests:

go test ./...

Deployment to Kubernetes

A deployment setup for Kubernetes has been assembled in ansible playbook deploy.yaml. This playbook:

• builds a docker image for the application
• publishes the docker image to GitHub Container Registry
• generates Kubernetes Deployment, Service, and Ingress configs
• applies generated configs