NIFI-7246 - External load balancer support for JWT using static, configured key

[Shreyaskc]

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[joewitt]

there appears to be several conflicts to resolve. there also needs to be a JIRA that this links to

[Shreyaskc]

there appears to be several conflicts to resolve. there also needs to be a JIRA that this links to

Added a JIRA : https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NIFI-7246 and resolved conflicts. I have deployed this fix in my organization and its working fine.

[joewitt]

It is super cool that you're trying to contribute. But, there does need to be discussion on something like this and so far the discussion is not favorable. I encourage you to spend more time attempting to build consensus on this change.

[Shreyaskc]

I am using NiFi in my org and facing this problem, hence had to put this fix. I see that in community there are many folks facing the same problem.
Ex : https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/Use-REST-API-to-access-a-secured-NiFi-cluster/m-p/197818/highlight/true#M159869

[pvillard31]

Why not use sticky session on the load balancer?
edit - let's continue the discussion on the JIRA where there are more details.

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