Can we digitally sign the solutions registry files so that the client can
verify they was created by us?

Christopher

On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 16:37 Gregg Vanderheiden RTF <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Is Github secure enough that we want production code to be downloading
> from there?
>
> I guess if the URL for downloading is in the siteconfig - we can easily
> move it later.
>
> *gregg*
>
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>
> On Apr 20, 2020, at 2:09 PM, Joseph Scheuhammer <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> All, but mostly Stepan, Alfredo, and Sergey (dev-ops),
>
> The goal of GPII-4273[i] is to provide a means by which the Morphic
> client can fetch its platform's latest solutions registry from github.
> In this case "latest" is defined by the version of gpii-universal
> running in the cloud.
>
> I've modified the solutions registry datasource (SRDS)  subcomponent of
> the local flow manager (LFM) to construct an url to github for the
> appropriate solutions registry and make a GET request to download it.
> An example of such an url is, assuming Morphic is running on Windows:
>
> https://raw.githubusercontent.com/GPII/universal/bd992f03313acd9a35b81f00fc63922540292255/testData/solutions/win32.json5
>
> I have modified the production tests to test the new LFM and its SRDS.
> The production tests involve running docker containers built from an
> image of gpii-universal that provide the main components of the GPII cloud.
>
> The production tests also run in GCP in dev and stg.  Here a
> "productiontests" container is run in which the production tests are
> executed as a one-shot job.
>
> Given that background:  will the security within GCP allow the LFM/SRDS
> within the productiontests container to make the outgoing GET request to
> github?  I suspect not, but I will test with my dev cluster.
>
> i. https://issues.gpii.net/browse/GPII-4273
>
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