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snyk/broker

Snyk Broker proxies access between snyk.io and your Git repositories, such as GitHub Enterprise, GitHub.com and Bitbucket Server. Snyk Broker can also be used to enable a secure connection with your on-premise Jira deployment.

The Broker server and client establish an applicative tunnel, proxying requests from snyk.io to the Git (fetching manifest files from monitored repositories), and vice versa (webhooks posted by the Git).

The Broker client runs within the user's internal network, keeping sensitive data such as Git tokens within the network perimeter. The applicative tunnel scans and adds only relevant requests to an approved list, narrowing down the access permissions to the bare minimum required for Snyk to actively monitor a repository.

Usage

The Broker client is published as a set of Docker images, each configured for a specific Git. Standard and custom configuration is performed with environment variables as described below, per integration type.

GitHub.com

To use the Broker client with GitHub.com, run docker pull snyk/broker:github-com. The following environment variables are mandatory to configure the Broker client:

• BROKER_TOKEN - the Snyk Broker token, obtained from your Snyk Org settings view (app.snyk.io).
• GITHUB_TOKEN - a personal access token with full repo, read:org and admin:repo_hook scopes.
• PORT - the local port at which the Broker client accepts connections. Default is 7341.
• BROKER_CLIENT_URL - the full URL of the Broker client as it will be accessible by GitHub.com webhooks, such as http://my.broker.client:7341

Command-line arguments

You can run the Docker container by providing the relevant configuration:

docker run --restart=always \
           -p 8000:8000 \
           -e BROKER_TOKEN=secret-broker-token \
           -e GITHUB_TOKEN=secret-github-token \
           -e PORT=8000 \
           -e BROKER_CLIENT_URL=http://my.broker.client:8000 \
       snyk/broker:github-com

Proxy configuration, see Configure Docker to use a proxy server

           -e HTTP_PROXY=http://my.proxy.address:8080
           -e HTTPS_PROXY=http://my.proxy.address:8080
           -e NO_PROXY=*.test.example.com,.example2.com,127.0.0.0/8

Derived docker image

Another option is to build your own docker image and override relevant environment variables:

FROM snyk/broker:github-com

ENV BROKER_TOKEN      secret-broker-token
ENV GITHUB_TOKEN      secret-github-token
ENV PORT              8000
ENV BROKER_CLIENT_URL http://my.broker.client:8000

GitHub Enterprise

To use the Broker client with a GitHub Enterprise deployment, run docker pull snyk/broker:github-enterprise tag. The following environment variables are mandatory to configure the Broker client:

• BROKER_TOKEN - the Snyk Broker token, obtained from your Snyk Org settings view (app.snyk.io).
• GITHUB_TOKEN - a personal access token with full repo, read:org and admin:repo_hook scopes.
• GITHUB - the hostname of your GitHub Enterprise deployment, such as your.ghe.domain.com.
• GITHUB_API - the API endpoint of your GitHub Enterprise deployment. Should be your.ghe.domain.com/api/v3.
• GITHUB_GRAPHQL - the graphql endpoint of your GitHub Enterprise deployment. Should be your.ghe.domain.com/api.
• PORT - the local port at which the Broker client accepts connections. Default is 7341.
• BROKER_CLIENT_URL - the full URL of the Broker client as it will be accessible by your GitHub Enterprise deployment webhooks, such as http://my.broker.client:7341

Command-line arguments

You can run the docker container by providing the relevant configuration:

docker run --restart=always \
           -p 8000:8000 \
           -e BROKER_TOKEN=secret-broker-token \
           -e GITHUB_TOKEN=secret-github-token \
           -e GITHUB=your.ghe.domain.com \
           -e GITHUB_API=your.ghe.domain.com/api/v3 \
           -e GITHUB_GRAPHQL=your.ghe.domain.com/api \
           -e PORT=8000 \
           -e BROKER_CLIENT_URL=http://my.broker.client:8000 \
       snyk/broker:github-enterprise

Derived docker image

Another option is to build your own docker image and override relevant environment variables:

FROM snyk/broker:github-enterprise

ENV BROKER_TOKEN      secret-broker-token
ENV GITHUB_TOKEN      secret-github-token
ENV GITHUB            your.ghe.domain.com
ENV GITHUB_API        your.ghe.domain.com/api/v3
ENV GITHUB_GRAPHQL    your.ghe.domain.com/api
ENV PORT              8000
ENV BROKER_CLIENT_URL http://my.broker.client:8000

Bitbucket Server

To use the Broker client with a Bitbucket Server deployment, run docker pull snyk/broker:bitbucket-server tag. The following environment variables are mandatory to configure the Broker client:

• BROKER_TOKEN - the snyk broker token, obtained from your Bitbucket Server integration settings view (app.snyk.io).
• BITBUCKET_USERNAME - the Bitbucket Server username.
• BITBUCKET_PASSWORD - the Bitbucket Server password.
• BITBUCKET - the hostname of your Bitbucket Server deployment, such as your.bitbucket-server.domain.com.
• BITBUCKET_API - the API endpoint of your Bitbucket Server deployment. Should be $BITBUCKET/rest/api/1.0.
• BROKER_CLIENT_URL - the full URL of the Broker client as it will be accessible by your Bitbucket Server for webhooks, such as http://my.broker.client:7341
• PORT - the local port at which the Broker client accepts connections. Default is 7341.

Command-line arguments

You can run the docker container by providing the relevant configuration:

docker run --restart=always \
           -p 8000:8000 \
           -e BROKER_TOKEN=secret-broker-token \
           -e BITBUCKET_USERNAME=username \
           -e BITBUCKET_PASSWORD=password \
           -e BITBUCKET=your.bitbucket-server.domain.com \
           -e BITBUCKET_API=your.bitbucket-server.domain.com/rest/api/1.0 \
           -e BROKER_CLIENT_URL=http://my.broker.client:8000 \
           -e PORT=8000 \
       snyk/broker:bitbucket-server

Derived docker image

Another option is to build your own docker image and override relevant environment variables:

FROM snyk/broker:bitbucket-server

ENV BROKER_TOKEN        secret-broker-token
ENV BITBUCKET_USERNAME  username
ENV BITBUCKET_PASSWORD  password
ENV BITBUCKET           your.bitbucket-server.domain.com
ENV BITBUCKET_API       your.bitbucket-server.domain.com/rest/api/1.0
ENV PORT                8000

GitLab

To use the Broker client with GitLab.com or an on-prem GitLab deployment, run docker pull snyk/broker:gitlab tag. The following environment variables are mandatory to configure the Broker client:

• BROKER_TOKEN - the Snyk Broker token, obtained from your GitLab integration settings view (app.snyk.io).
• GITLAB_TOKEN - a GitLab personal access token with api scope
• GITLAB - the hostname of your GitLab deployment, such as your.gitlab.domain.com or GitLab.com.
• PORT - the local port at which the Broker client accepts connections. Default is 7341.
• BROKER_CLIENT_URL - the full URL of the Broker client as it will be accessible by GitLab.com webhooks, such as http://my.broker.client:7341

Command-line arguments

You can run the docker container by providing the relevant configuration:

docker run --restart=always \
           -p 8000:8000 \
           -e BROKER_TOKEN=secret-broker-token \
           -e GITLAB_TOKEN=secret-gitlab-token \
           -e GITLAB=your.gitlab.domain.com \
           -e BROKER_CLIENT_URL=http://my.broker.client:8000 \
           -e PORT=8000 \
       snyk/broker:gitlab

Derived docker image

Another option is to build your own docker image and override relevant environment variables:

FROM snyk/broker:gitlab

ENV BROKER_TOKEN        secret-broker-token
ENV GITLAB_TOKEN        secret-gitlab-token
ENV GITLAB              your.gitlab.domain.com
ENV BROKER_CLIENT_URL   http://my.broker.client:8000
ENV PORT                8000

Azure Repos

To use the Broker client with Azure, run docker pull snyk/broker:azure-repos tag. The following environment variables are mandatory to configure the Broker client:

• BROKER_TOKEN - the Snyk Broker token, obtained from your Azure Repos integration settings view (app.snyk.io).
• AZURE_REPOS_TOKEN - an Azure Repos personal access token. Guide how to get/create the token. Required scopes: ensure Custom defined is selected and under Code select Read & write
• AZURE_REPOS_ORG - organization name, which can be found in your Organization Overview page in Azure
• AZURE_REPOS_HOST - the hostname of your Azure Repos Server deployment, such as your.azure-server.domain.com.
• PORT - the local port at which the Broker client accepts connections. Default is 7341.
• BROKER_CLIENT_URL - the full URL of the Broker client as it will be accessible by your Azure Repos' webhooks, such as http://my.broker.client:7341

Command-line arguments

You can run the docker container by providing the relevant configuration:

docker run --restart=always \
           -p 8000:8000 \
           -e BROKER_TOKEN=secret-broker-token \
           -e AZURE_REPOS_TOKEN=secret-azure-token \
           -e AZURE_REPOS_ORG=org-name \
           -e AZURE_REPOS_HOST=your.azure-server.domain.com \
           -e BROKER_CLIENT_URL=http://my.broker.client:8000 \
           -e PORT=8000 \
       snyk/broker:azure-repos

Derived docker image

Another option is to build your own docker image and override relevant environment variables:

FROM snyk/broker:azure-repos

ENV BROKER_TOKEN        secret-broker-token
ENV AZURE_REPOS_TOKEN   secret-azure-token
ENV AZURE_REPOS_ORG     org-name
ENV AZURE_REPOS_HOST    your.azure-server.domain.com
ENV BROKER_CLIENT_URL   http://my.broker.client:8000
ENV PORT                8000

Artifactory

To use the Broker client with an artifactory deployment, run docker pull snyk/broker:artifactory tag. The following environment variables are needed to customize the Broker client:

• BROKER_TOKEN - the snyk broker token, obtained from your artifactory integration settings view.
• ARTIFACTORY_URL - the URL of your artifactory deployment, such as <yourdomain>.artifactory.com/artifactory.

Command-line arguments

You can run the docker container by providing the relevant configuration:

docker run --restart=always \
           -p 8000:8000 \
           -e BROKER_TOKEN=secret-broker-token \
           -e ARTIFACTORY_URL=<yourdomain>.artifactory.com/artifactory \
       snyk/broker:artifactory

Derived docker image

Another option is to build your own docker image and override relevant environment variables:

FROM snyk/broker:artifactory

ENV BROKER_TOKEN      secret-broker-token
ENV ARTIFACTORY_URL   <yourdomain>.artifactory.com

Jira

To use the Broker client with a Jira deployment, run docker pull snyk/broker:jira tag. The following environment variables are mandatory to configure the Broker client:

• BROKER_TOKEN - the Snyk Broker token, obtained from your Jira integration settings view.
• JIRA_USERNAME - the Jira username.
• JIRA_PASSWORD - the Jira password.
• JIRA_HOSTNAME - the hostname of your Jira deployment, such as your.jira.domain.com.
• BROKER_CLIENT_URL - the full URL of the Broker client as it will be accessible by your Jira for webhooks, such as http://my.broker.client:7341
• PORT - the local port at which the Broker client accepts connections. Default is 7341.

Command-line arguments

You can run the docker container by providing the relevant configuration:

docker run --restart=always \
           -p 8000:8000 \
           -e BROKER_TOKEN=secret-broker-token \
           -e JIRA_USERNAME=username \
           -e JIRA_PASSWORD=password \
           -e JIRA_HOSTNAME=your.jira.domain.com \
           -e BROKER_CLIENT_URL=http://my.broker.client:8000 \
           -e PORT=8000 \
       snyk/broker:jira

Derived docker image

Another option is to build your own docker image and override relevant environment variables:

FROM snyk/broker:jira

ENV BROKER_TOKEN        secret-broker-token
ENV JIRA_USERNAME       username
ENV JIRA_PASSWORD       password
ENV JIRA_HOSTNAME       your.jira.domain.com
ENV PORT                8000

Container registry agent

To use the Broker client with a container registry agent deployment, run docker pull snyk/broker:container-registry-agent. The following environment variables are mandatory to configure the Broker client:

• BROKER_TOKEN - The Snyk Broker token, obtained from your Container registry integration settings (app.snyk.io).
• BROKER_CLIENT_URL - The URL of your broker client (including scheme and - port) used by container registry agent to call back to Snyk.
• CR_AGENT_URL - The URL of your container registry agent (including scheme and - port) to which brokered requests would be forwarded.
• CR_TYPE - The container registry type as listed in supporter registries, for example "DockerHub", "GoogleCR", "ArtifactoryCR".
• CR_BASE - The hostname of the container registry api to connect to, for example: "cr.host.com".
• CR_USERNAME - The username for authenticating to container registry api. Not used for DigitalOcean container registry.
• CR_PASSWORD - The password for authenticating to container registry api. Not used for DigitalOcean container registry.
• CR_TOKEN - Authentication token for DigitalOcean container registry.
• PORT - The local port at which the Broker client accepts connections. Default is 7341.

Command-line arguments

You can run the docker container by providing the relevant configuration:

docker run --restart=always \
           -p 8000:8000 \
           -e BROKER_TOKEN=secret-broker-token \
           -e BROKER_CLIENT_URL=https://my.broker.client:8000 \
           -e CR_AGENT_URL=https://my.container.registry.agent \
           -e CR_TYPE=container-registry-type \
           -e CR_BASE=your.container.registry.domain.com \
           -e CR_USERNAME=secret-container-registry-username \
           -e CR_PASSWORD=secret-container-registry-password \
           -e PORT=8000 \
       snyk/broker:container-registry-agent

Derived docker image

Another option is to build your own docker image and override relevant environment variables:

FROM snyk/broker:container-registry-agent

ENV BROKER_TOKEN          secret-broker-token
ENV BROKER_CLIENT_URL     https://my.broker.client:8000
ENV CR_AGENT_URL          https://my.container.registry.agent
ENV CR_TYPE               container-registry-type
ENV CR_BASE               your.container.registry.domain.com
ENV CR_USERNAME           secret-container-registry-username
ENV CR_PASSWORD           secret-container-registry-password
ENV PORT                  8000

Monitoring

Healthcheck

The Broker exposes an endpoint at /healthcheck, which can be used to monitor the health of the running application. This endpoint responds with status code 200 OK when the internal request is successful, and returns { ok: true } in the response body.

In the case of the Broker client, this endpoint also reports on the status of the Broker websocket connection. If the websocket connection is not open, this endpoint responds with status code 500 Internal Server Error and { ok: false } in the response body.

To change the location of the healthcheck endpoint, you can specify an alternative path via an environment variable:

ENV BROKER_HEALTHCHECK_PATH /path/to/healthcheck

Systemcheck

The Broker client exposes an endpoint at /systemcheck, which can be used to validate the brokered service (Git or the like) connectivity and credentials. This endpoint causes the Broker client to make a request to a preconfigured URL, and report on the success of the request. The supported configuration is:

• BROKER_CLIENT_VALIDATION_URL - the URL to which the request will be made.
• BROKER_CLIENT_VALIDATION_AUTHORIZATION_HEADER - [optional] the Authorization header value of the request. Mutually exclusive with BROKER_CLIENT_VALIDATION_BASIC_AUTH.
• BROKER_CLIENT_VALIDATION_BASIC_AUTH - [optional] the basic auth credentials (username:password) to be base64 encoded and placed in the Authorization header value of the request. Mutually exclusive with BROKER_CLIENT_VALIDATION_AUTHORIZATION_HEADER.
• BROKER_CLIENT_VALIDATION_METHOD - [optional] the HTTP method of the request (default is GET).
• BROKER_CLIENT_VALIDATION_TIMEOUT_MS - [optional] the request timeout in milliseconds (default is 5000 ms).

This endpoint responds with status code 200 OK when the internal request is successful, and returns { ok: true } in the response body. If the internal request fails, this endpoint responds with status code 500 Internal Server Error and { ok: false } in the response body.

To change the location of the systemcheck endpoint, you can specify an alternative path via an environment variable:

ENV BROKER_SYSTEMCHECK_PATH /path/to/systemcheck

Logging

By default the log level of the Broker is set to INFO. All SCM responses regardless of HTTP status code will be logged by the Broker client. The following settings can be set in your environment variables to alter the logging behaviour:

Key	Default	Notes
LOG_LEVEL	info	Set to "debug" for all logs
LOG_ENABLE_BODY	false	Set to "true" to include the response body in the Client logs

Advanced Configuration

HTTPS

The Broker client runs an HTTP server by default. It can be configured to run an HTTPS server for local connections. This requires an SSL certificate and a private key to be provided to the docker container at runtime.

For example, if your certificate files are found locally at ./private/broker.crt and ./private/broker.key, provide these files to the docker container by mounting the folder and using the HTTPS_CERT and HTTPS_KEY environment variables:

docker run --restart=always \
           -p 8000:8000 \
           -e BROKER_TOKEN=secret-broker-token \
           -e GITHUB_TOKEN=secret-github-token \
           -e PORT=8000 \
           -e HTTPS_CERT=/private/broker.crt \
           -e HTTPS_KEY=/private/broker.key \
           -e BROKER_CLIENT_URL=https://my.broker.client:8000 \
           -v /local/path/to/private:/private \
       snyk/broker:github-com

Note that BROKER_CLIENT_URL now has the HTTPS scheme.

Git with an internal certificate

By default, the Broker client establishes HTTPS connections to the Git. If your Git is serving an internal certificate (signed by your own CA), you can provide the CA certificate to the Broker client.

For example, if your CA certificate is at ./private/ca.cert.pem, provide it to the docker container by mounting the folder and using the CA_CERT environment variable:

docker run --restart=always \
           -p 8000:8000 \
           -e BROKER_TOKEN=secret-broker-token \
           -e BITBUCKET_USERNAME=username \
           -e BITBUCKET_PASSWORD=password \
           -e BITBUCKET=your.bitbucket-server.domain.com \
           -e BITBUCKET_API=your.bitbucket-server.domain.com/rest/api/1.0 \
           -e PORT=8000 \
           -e CA_CERT=/private/ca.cert.pem \
           -v /local/path/to/private:/private \
       snyk/broker:bitbucket-server

Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

By default, some file types used by Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) are not enabled. To grant the Broker access to IaC files in your repository, such as Terraform for example, edit your accept.json and add the relevant IaC specific rules.

For example, if you are using GitHub and you would like to give the Broker access to your Terraform files, you should add the following rules to your accept.json:

{
  "//": "used to enable scanning of Terraform files",
  "method": "GET",
  "path": "/repos/:name/:repo/contents/:path*/*.tf",
  "origin": "https://${GITHUB_TOKEN}@${GITHUB_API}"
},
{
  "//": "used to enable scanning of Terraform files",
  "method": "GET",
  "path": "/repos/:name/:repo/contents/:path*%2F*.tf",
  "origin": "https://${GITHUB_TOKEN}@${GITHUB_API}"
},

More details can be found here: Detecting infrastructure as code files using a broker

Custom approved-listing filter

The default approved-listing filter supports the bare minimum to operate on all repositories supported by Snyk. In order to customize the approved-listing filter, create the default one locally by installing snyk-broker and running broker init [Git type]. The created accept.json is the default filter for the chosen Git. Place the file in a separate folder such as ./private/accept.json, and provide it to the docker container by mounting the folder and using the ACCEPT environment variable:

docker run --restart=always \
           -p 8000:8000 \
           -e BROKER_TOKEN=secret-broker-token \
           -e GITHUB_TOKEN=secret-github-token \
           -e PORT=8000 \
           -e BROKER_CLIENT_URL=https://my.broker.client:8000 \
           -e ACCEPT=/private/accept.json
           -v /local/path/to/private:/private \
       snyk/broker:github-com

Types of Filtering

By Header

Add a validation block with the following key/values:

Key	Value	Value Type	Example
header	The name of the header you wish to filter on. If this is defined then the named header must explicitly exist on the request otherwise it will be blocked	String	accept
values	The header value must match one of the defined strings	Array<String>	["application/vnd.github.v4.sha"]

For example, to only allow the SHA Media Type accept header for requests to the GitHub Commits API you would add the following:

{
    "method": "GET",
    "path": "/repos/:name/:repo/commits/:ref",
    "origin": "https://${GITHUB_TOKEN}@${GITHUB_API}",
    "valid": [
        {
            "header": "accept",
            "values": ["application/vnd.github.v4.sha"]
        }
    ]
}

Mounting Secrets

Sometime it is required to load sensitive configurations (GitHub/Snyk's token) from a file instead from environment variables. Broker is using dotenv to load the config, so the process is relatively simple:

• Create a file named .env and put your sensitive config there:
• Mount this file (for example, using Kubernetes secret). Mount the file to be somewhere like /broker.
• Change the workdir of the docker image to be /broker/ Example of such file is located in your broker container at $HOME/.env

Troubleshooting

Support of big manifest files (> 1Mb) for GitHub / GitHub Enterprise

One of the reason for failing of open Fix/Upgrade PRs or PR/recurring tests might be fetching big manifest files (> 1Mb) failure. To address this issue, additional Blob API endpoint should be whitelisted in accept.json:

• should be in private array

{
    "//": "used to get given manifest file",
    "method": "GET",
    "path": "/repos/:owner/:repo/git/blobs/:sha",
    "origin": "https://${GITHUB_TOKEN}@${GITHUB_API}"
}

Note To ensure the maximum possible security, we do not enable this rule by default, as usage of this endpoint means that the Snyk platform can theoretically access all files in this repository, as the path does not include specific allowed file names.

Misc

• License: Apache License, Version 2.0
• Contributing
• Security