Assignment: Cloud and Big Data Rest Service with Swagger

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• [x] Read and gain knowledge about Swagger and how it works
• [x] Pick a resource to work on
• [x] Create the Swagger Specification
• [x] Develop the actual implementation code
  • [x] Discuss with TA about this
• [ ] Generate the client side code

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first 2 tasks done

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Created new tasks

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@laszewsk Professor, I need to discuss few things regarding the localhost(ssh) Swagger service that I am working on. I'm having trouble with the basic authentication and also wanted to confirm if my implementation is as expected. Please let me know when we can have a call. Thanks & regards, Shagufta

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Created the swagger spec, generated the server-side code, implemented the REST service, implemented basic authentication and submitted the code for review.

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@laszewsk Professor, as per your feedback recently on Piazza (https://piazza.com/class/jbkvbp3ed3m2ez?cid=248), I have stored username/password for Basic Auth in a separate yaml file called 'config.yaml' placed under ~/server/command/flaskConnexion/creds directory. I have also tried to create a separate module for the authentication part 'auth_util.py' placed under the controllers directory for now. I simply import auth_util.py in the default_controller.py code and check for the authentication.

I am however doing 'ssh' in the subprocess.check_output command, which currently waits till I enter the password to execute the further steps, which I do not like. Going forward I would like to do the passwordless SSH and for that I will probably need another machine.

For now, request you to please take a look and provide your comments. Note: everything is checked into Github.

Thanks and regards.

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TODO:

• Create another VM to test out the ssh service
• Restrict the service access to only localhost by adding hostname in the main.py generated in the swagger code

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Updates:

• Set another Ubuntu Virtual machine
• Created Passwordless SSH logins between the two VMs
• The Swagger service is able to ssh to VM2 from VM1 and execute the commands using curl commands with Basic Auth

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Today I did the following:

• made changes to the directory structure. Correct dir structure now is swagger/cloudmesh/localhost
• updated the localhost.yaml and corrected the base path
• updated localhost.yaml and change command as payload instead of path earlier
• updated default_controller.py code and did some enhancements
• created the dockerfile, made sure the image is built on the container and its running
• Not able to test swagger service on container using curl commands
• Updated Professor/ TAs about it

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I am able to test the service on container. Updated README with the details on how to test. Hence closing this issue.