Shared identity & auth component for the Terraform tooling suite (the registry and
the state manager).
It is owned by neither consuming application: either app can stand the identity
store up at setup time, and whichever app is installed second detects that it already
exists and attaches to it. See ADR 002 in the consuming repositories for the full
rationale.
The module is a Go library — it is linked into each app's binary, not run as a
separate service. Consuming it has no runtime/operational footprint; an app can use the
shared schema or keep identity in its own schema (see Schema routing).
Packages
| Package |
Purpose |
identity |
Migration runner for the dedicated identity Postgres schema (isolated golang-migrate instance + identity_schema_migrations version table). |
identity/models |
The canonical identity data types — User, Organization, OrganizationMember (+ membership views), APIKey, RoleTemplate, OIDCConfig, AuditLog. |
identity/store |
The data-access layer (repository pattern) for those types, plus TokenRepository (JWT revocation). Repos use unqualified table names so the connection's search_path selects the schema. |
identity/auth |
App-neutral auth primitives: scope checking (HasScope/HasAnyScope/HasAllScopes with wildcard admin + write-implies-read), the JWT TokenManager (HS256, JTI, secret rotation), and API-key generation/validation. |
identity/auth/oidc |
A generic OpenID Connect provider (discovery, auth URL, code exchange, ID-token verification, group/user-info extraction). |
Canonical identity model
The data model is canonical across the suite — both apps use the same shapes. The
only per-app variance is the role → scope mapping: the module is app-agnostic about
scope contents, and each app seeds its own scopes onto role_templates at setup (the
"identity-core + app-extended" model).
Notable modelling choices:
- No soft-active flag on users. Access derives entirely from organization memberships
and the scopes their role templates grant; "disabling" a user means removing their
memberships (or deleting the user).
- API keys are usable while they exist and have not passed
expires_at; revocation is
a hard delete (no soft flag). JWT revocation is tracked separately in revoked_tokens.
- Multi-org by default —
UserWithOrgRoles aggregates scopes across all memberships.
Installation
go get github.com/sethbacon/terraform-suite-identity@latest
Pin a minimum version in go.mod. Schema migrations are additive within a major version.
Usage
Migrations
Apply the identity migrations before the application's own migrations:
import "github.com/sethbacon/terraform-suite-identity/identity"
if err := identity.RunMigrations(db, "up"); err != nil {
return err
}
version, dirty, err := identity.GetMigrationVersion(db)
db is a standard *sql.DB on the shared PostgreSQL database. The runner uses
CREATE … IF NOT EXISTS / ON CONFLICT DO NOTHING with an advisory lock, so it is safe
for detect-and-attach when multiple apps run it against the same database.
Schema routing
The store repositories use unqualified table names, so the connection decides the
schema. An app opts into the shared identity schema by giving the identity repositories a
connection whose search_path puts identity first, while its own feature tables fall
back to public:
// Identity connection → identity schema (feature tables still resolve at public).
dsn := baseDSN + " options='-c search_path=identity,public'"
identityDB, _ := sql.Open("postgres", dsn)
userRepo := store.NewUserRepository(identityDB) // reads/writes identity.users
With a plain public connection the same repositories operate entirely in the app's own
schema — so adopting the shared schema is opt-in and reversible behind a feature flag.
Data layer
import "github.com/sethbacon/terraform-suite-identity/identity/store"
userRepo := store.NewUserRepository(db)
user, err := userRepo.GetOrCreateUserFromOIDC(ctx, sub, email, name)
apiKeyRepo := store.NewAPIKeyRepository(db)
tokenRepo := store.NewTokenRepository(db) // revoked_tokens
Auth
import "github.com/sethbacon/terraform-suite-identity/identity/auth"
// Scope checks — the app injects its own write→read pairs and scope set.
ok := auth.HasScope(userScopes, "modules:write", auth.ReadWritePairs{...})
// JWT — secret + issuer injected (never read from the environment by the module).
tm := auth.NewTokenManager([]byte(secret), "terraform-registry")
token, _ := tm.Generate(userID, email, scopes, 24*time.Hour)
claims, _ := tm.Validate(token) // tries current then previous secret (rotation)
// API keys
key, hash, prefix, _ := auth.GenerateAPIKey("tfr")
OIDC:
import identityoidc "github.com/sethbacon/terraform-suite-identity/identity/auth/oidc"
prov, _ := identityoidc.NewProvider(identityoidc.Config{
IssuerURL: issuer, ClientID: id, ClientSecret: secret,
RedirectURL: cb, Scopes: []string{"openid", "email", "profile"},
RequireHTTPS: true,
})
Versioning
Released with release-please + goreleaser on Conventional Commits. The module is in the
0.x series while the API stabilises — breaking changes bump the minor version, and
consumers pin and upgrade in lockstep. Schema migrations are additive.
Development
go build ./...
go vet ./...
go test ./... -race -coverprofile=coverage.out -covermode=atomic # sqlmock — no live DB
gosec ./...
The data layer is unit-tested with sqlmock (no live database). The migration runner is
exercised against live PostgreSQL by the consuming apps' integration/UAT suites.
License
Apache-2.0.