cpe_remote auth headers

[erikng]

the cpe_remote cookbook currently warns if auth headers are not passed, but there is no actual way for people using the cookbook to pass these as it's an internal feature to FB. Could this be generalized and added to the cookbook?

I would love to have auth header usage to protect the chef_remote repo urls

[clburlison]

For what it's worth this can be accomplished right now by editing cpe_remote/libraries/helpers.rb file with the following:

    def auth_headers(url, method)
      #CPE::Distro.auth_headers(url, method)
      require 'base64'
      {'AUTHORIZATION' => "Basic #{
        Base64.strict_encode64('username:password')}",
        'Content-Type' => 'application/data'
      }
    rescue StandardError
      Chef::Log.warn('Building auth headers failed')
      {}
    end

I tried a few variations of creating a CPE::Distro.auth_headers function in a separate helper library file but came up unsucessful. I'm sure that was user error on my part 🤷‍♂️

As for Erik's comment I think this could solved in the README as a new "authorzation" section. It would be nice to document how to add the CPE::Distro.auth_headers format so we could keep this in a sepreate non-cpe_remote cookbook.

Cheers

[erikng]

@mikedodge04 @chilcote did you guys ever finish this? I thought you did.

[johnnyramos]

+1 - would be useful deal with us cloud folks.

[DNSGeek]

Don't think this is still needed.

[natewalck]

Why is this no longer needed? Has cpe_remote been updated to have this functionality?

[erikng]

Definitely still needed if the support hasn't been added.