Make authenticator binaries downloadable at a scriptable address

tyrannosaurus-becks commented 4 years ago

If I want to get the authenticator binary, the steps are:

Notice on this page that there's a link to the binary
Figure out that you must go to the Github repo's releases

Copy the link url of the binary you want, and attempt to script downloading and running it

curl https://github.com/cyralinc/approzium/releases/download/v0.1.1/darwin_amd64.zip
unzip darwin_amd64.zip
chmod +x authenticator
./authenticator

Notice that the above fails

➜  ~ curl https://github.com/cyralinc/approzium/releases/download/v0.1.1/darwin_amd64.zip
<html><body>You are being <a href="https://github-production-release-asset-2e65be.s3.amazonaws.com/191710884/58a7a680-c527-11ea-9fad-f5fe503b69ea?X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&amp;X-Amz-Credential=AKIAIWNJYAX4CSVEH53A%2F20200721%2Fus-east-1%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&amp;X-Amz-Date=20200721T183732Z&amp;X-Amz-Expires=300&amp;X-Amz-Signature=e6c1ea6629cc235e36eebff3f142a2ec8fe0f84423bce1cce38b5443ac8322ea&amp;X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&amp;actor_id=0&amp;repo_id=191710884&amp;response-content-disposition=attachment%3B%20filename%3Ddarwin_amd64.zip&amp;response-content-type=application%2Foctet-stream">redirected</a>.</body></html>%

Manually download the zip before proceeding with the subsequent commands

Consider automating through Docker instead with something like:

docker run --network=host approzium/authenticator -e VAULT_TOKEN=root -e VAULT_ADDR=http://localhost:8200 --disabletls=true

Be required to deal with networking in Docker to get the authenticator to talk to Vault.

If we improve this user experience, we will likely see higher adoption rates.

Needs

[ ] A well-resolved URL that can be scripted to give a pre-built binary, like https://approzium.com/releases/v0.1.1/darwin_amd64.zip

tyrannosaurus-becks commented 4 years ago

Other things I tried:

curl -L https://github.com/cyralinc/approzium/releases/download/v0.1.1/darwin_amd64.zip
Warning: Binary output can mess up your terminal. Use "--output -" to tell
Warning: curl to output it to your terminal anyway, or consider "--output
Warning: <FILE>" to save to a file.

tyrannosaurus-becks commented 4 years ago

Also tried this and it worked for downloading the file, but I do think we need to make this UX easier and more obvious.

➜  ~ curl -L -O "https://github.com/cyralinc/approzium/releases/download/v0.1.1/darwin_amd64.zip"
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100   629  100   629    0     0   5469      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--  5469
100 9612k  100 9612k    0     0  2338k      0  0:00:04  0:00:04 --:--:-- 2741k

tyrannosaurus-becks commented 4 years ago

This relates to #154 but is not the same.

UpGado commented 4 years ago

I found that wget does a better job of handling the redirection:

➜  aws git:(terraform) ✗ wget https://github.com/cyralinc/approzium/releases/download/v0.1.1/darwin_amd64.zip
--2020-07-22 04:48:53--  https://github.com/cyralinc/approzium/releases/download/v0.1.1/darwin_amd64.zip
Resolving github.com (github.com)... 140.82.113.4
Connecting to github.com (github.com)|140.82.113.4|:443... connected.
........
Connecting to github-production-release-asset-2e65be.s3.amazonaws.com (github-production-release-asset-2e65be.s3.amazonaws.com)|52.216.171.11|:443... connected.
.....
Saving to: ‘darwin_amd64.zip’

darwin_amd64.zip              100%[===============================================>]   9.39M  14.8MB/s    in 0.6s

2020-07-22 04:48:54 (14.8 MB/s) - ‘darwin_amd64.zip’ saved [9843409/9843409]

UpGado commented 4 years ago

Also tried this and it worked for downloading the file, but I do think we need to make this UX easier and more obvious.


➜  ~ curl -L -O "https://github.com/cyralinc/approzium/releases/download/v0.1.1/darwin_amd64.zip"
I don't think this is bad, but it could be improved slightly by:
`curl -LO "https://github.com/cyralinc/approzium/releases/download/v0.1.1/darwin_amd64.zip" `
or
`curl -L "https://github.com/cyralinc/approzium/releases/download/v0.1.1/darwin_amd64.zip"  -o "approzium.zip"`

cyralinc / approzium

Make authenticator binaries downloadable at a scriptable address #161

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