Create an initial implementation of AuthInitialize interface that can connect to PCC about spring-boot-data-geode

[jxblum]

I think the first step for the Spring Boot / Pivotal GemFire support should be auto-configuration of the cache, and a ClientCache in particular.

I also think the default implementation of the AuthInitialize interface should live in Spring Data GemFire

Will provide more thoughts and feedback on this shortly.

[jxblum]

Just an update to my earlier comment above...

Since Spring Data Kay (i.e. Spring Data GemFire 2.0), I have added first-class support for both Pivotal GemFire client and server-side security, which is part of the new Annotation config model.

More general information about configuring Security in Pivotal GemFire using Spring Data GemFire, begins here.

But effectively, SDG now provides a default implementation of the o.a.g.security.AuthInitialize interface.

Using this new Security annotation support in SDG for Spring Boot, Pivotal GemFire ClientCache applications, is as simple as the following...

@SpringBootApplication
@ClientCacheApplication
@EnableSecurity
class MySpringBootPivotalGemFireCacheClientApplication {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        SpringApplication.run(MySpringBootPivotalGemFireCacheClientApplication.class, args);
    }
}

Thus, annotate the Spring Boot main application class with SDG's @EnableSecurity annotation, and then set the username and password properties to authenticate the client in Spring Boot's application.properties...

#application.properties

spring.data.gemfire.security.username=MyUser
spring.data.gemfire.security.password=MyPassword

...

Inside of PCF, when pushing and deploying your Pivotal GemFire-based, Spring Boot application, you will not need to explicitly define username and password properties in application.properties.

Spring Boot Data GemFire will effectively be able to extract this information from the VCAP environment variables created by PCF when a Spring Boot application is deployed.

More to come...

[jxblum]

Spring Boot auto-configuration of either Apache Geode or Pivotal GemFire Security, securing a client connecting to a server in either a local, non-managed environment (i.e. standalone) as well as a cloud, managed environment (e.g. PCF) is complete!