Django microservice auth SDK

Django auth DB router.

Simple database router that helps to split your main database and authentication database. This may be necessary when splitting a project into microservices. Let's say you have some Django project and want to split it into microservices. But all of your microservices need to use the same authentication database. This router will help you to do that.

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How it works

1. Django project that provides authentication also shares default database with other microservices.
2. Other microservices may have their own databases, but they all use the same authentication database.

Which apps are routed to auth_db database?

• contenttypes
• sites
• auth
• admin
• flatpages
• redirects
• auditlog
• sessions

Models of these apps are routed to auth_db database.

These apps are hardcoded in ms_auth_router.routers.DefaultRouter.

List can be extended by adding ROUTE_APP_LABELS setting.

If you know that some reusable Django apps should be routed to auth_db database, please create an issue or pull request.

Quickstart

Add ms_auth_router to your INSTALLED_APPS setting like this:

INSTALLED_APPS = [
    ...,
    'ms_auth_router',
    ...
]

Add DATABASE_ROUTERS setting in settings.py file or append to existing list:

DATABASE_ROUTERS = [
    'ms_auth_router.routers.DefaultRouter',
    ...
]

Add auth_db section to DATABASES:

DATABASES = {
   ...
   'auth_db': {
       'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.sqlite3',
       'NAME': BASE_DIR / 'auth.sqlite3',
   },
   ...
}

Finally, add AUTH_DB setting:

AUTH_DB = 'auth_db'

Without this setting router will use default db connection.

Note: To get session authentication working between microservices, the SECRET_KEY setting must be the same in all microservices.

Use with custom auth app

If you're using custom auth app and want it to be routed to auth_db database, you need to add ROUTE_APP_LABELS setting:

ROUTE_APP_LABELS = ['my_custom_auth_app', ]