NJS: Prototype Custom JWT (NJS)

[shawnhankim]

As a Solution Engineer,

I have a customer who is using NGINX Plus w/ NJS to enrich flexible API traffic management between external Microservices and internal Upstream service as the following process. When it gets a JWT from a client, it will reach out to a number of other Microservices to pull information. Then, it adds information to the JST to send on to an Upstream service. I would like to stay the custom NJS on NGINX Plus, and it can be managed by NMS-ACM.

As a Product Manager,

I want to provide the features of Bring Your Own Custom Policy(BYOCP) where scriptExtensions can be included in NMS-ACM and NGINX Plus.

As a Backend Engineer,

I want to save time for designing the BYOCP` in NGINX-ACM. The prototyping is one of ways to quickly implement a minimal viable product and determine based on the demo between PMs and SWEs which solution would be better among several approaches. So I can avoid redesigning entire architectures if there is any big mistakes of architecture after completing design and implementation.

Acceptance Criteria:

• Prototype reference implementation
  • NJS: custom-jwt.js
  • NGINX configuration
  • Example of Microservices
• Docker container environment for testing
• Quick starter guide

Misc.:

• Customers can refactor this reference implementation (custom-JWT) based on their requirements.