OWASP ZAP for security testing
by Heiko Rupp
I was last week in a session about "Security during the build", where
the presenter
talked about enforcing checks for security issues during the build phase
(preferably
nightly CI run)
One of the interesting tools is
https://www.owasp.org/index.php/OWASP_Zed_Attack_Proxy_Project
which is a web client that can run attacks against web applications to
try things like
* sql injection
* cross site forgery
* just parameter fuzzing
and much more.
While this is a bit hard to set up with pure REST-APIs (if they don't
follow HATEOAS),
it seems worth doing anyway to make sure that the obvious things don't
hit.
And before someone mentions that this does not apply to us because we
use Cassandra
and not a SQL data store: it is possible to generate profiles and e.g.
switch off the sql injection attack vector.
8 years, 8 months
New Hawkular Blog Post: OpenTracing JAX-RS Instrumentation
by Thomas Heute
New Hawkular blog post from noreply(a)hawkular.org (Pavol Loffay): http://ift.tt/2tYLEaM
In the previous demo we have demonstrated how to instrument a Spring Boot app using OpenTracing, a vendor-neutral standard for distributed tracing. In this article we are going to instrument a Java API for RESTful Web Services (JAX-RS), and show you how to trace the business layer and add custom data to the trace.
Demo application
Creating a JAX-RS app from scratch can be a time consuming task, therefore in this case we are going to use Wildfly Swarm’s app generator. Select JAX-RS and CDI dependencies and hit generate button.
Figure 1: Wildfly Swarm generator.
The generated application contains one REST endpoint which returns hello world string. This endpoint is accessible on http://localhost:8080/hello. In the next step we are going to add instrumentation and simple business logic.
Instrumentation
Adding OpenTracing instrumentation to JAX-RS is very simple, just include the following dependency in the classpath and the tracing feature will be automatically registered.
<dependency>
<groupId>io.opentracing.contrib</groupId>
<artifactId>opentracing-jaxrs2</artifactId>
</dependency>
OpenTracing is just an API, therefore it is required to register a specific tracer instance. In this demo we are going to use Jaeger tracing system. The tracer should be created and initialized only once per process, hence ServletContextListener is the ideal place for this task:
@WebListener
public class TracingContextListener implements ServletContextListener {
@Inject
private io.opentracing.Tracer tracer;
@Override
public void contextInitialized(ServletContextEvent sce) {
GlobalTracer.register(tracer);
}
@Override
public void contextDestroyed(ServletContextEvent sce) {}
@Produces
@Singleton
public static io.opentracing.Tracer jaegerTracer() {
return new Configuration("wildfly-swarm", new Configuration.SamplerConfiguration(
ProbabilisticSampler.TYPE, 1),
new Configuration.ReporterConfiguration())
.getTracer();
}
}
Tracer initialization code requires to specify app name, which is in this case wildfly-swarm and sampler configuration.
Note that we are suing Java’s Context and Dependency Injection (CDI) to share a tracer instance in our app. If we forget to register a specific tracer instance, then the tracing feature would use NoopTracer. Now we can verify tracing by starting Jaeger server using the following command: docker run --rm -it --network=host jaegertracing/all-in-one and accessing the endpoint at http://localhost:8080/hello. Our trace with one span should be present in the UI at http://localhost:16686.
Instrumenting business logic
JAX-RS instrumentation provides nice visibility into your app, however, it is often necessary to add custom data to the trace to see what is happening in the service or database layer.
The following code snippet shows how the service layer can create and add data to the trace:
public class BackendService {
@Inject
private io.opentracing.Tracer tracer;
public String action() throws InterruptedException {
int random = new Random().nextInt(200);
try (ActiveSpan span = tracer.buildSpan("action").startActive()) {
anotherAction();
Thread.sleep(random);
}
return String.valueOf(random);
}
private void anotherAction() {
tracer.activeSpan().setTag("anotherAction", "data");
}
Note that it’s not necessary to manually pass a span instance around. The method anotherAction accesses the current active span from the tracer.
With the additional instrumentation shown above, an invocation of the REST endpoint would result in a trace consisting of two spans, one representing the inbound server request, and the other the business logic. The span representing server processing is automatically considered as the parent for span created in business layer. If we created span in anotherAction then its parent would be span created in action method.
Figure 1: Jaeger showing reported spans.
Video
Conclusion
We have demonstrated that instrumenting a JAX-RS app is just a matter of adding a dependency and registering a tracer instance. If we would like to use a different OpenTracing implementation, Zipkin for instance, it would just require changing tracer producer code. No changes to the application or business logic! In the next demo we will wire this app with Spring Boot created in previous demo and deploy them on Kubernetes.
Links
OpenTracing: http://opentracing.io
Github repository with demo: http://ift.tt/2s6QrTB
OpenTracing JAX-RS instrumentation: http://ift.tt/2uxvWQO
Jaeger: http://ift.tt/2eOSqHE
from Hawkular Blog
8 years, 8 months
Generic Hawkular-UI in MiQ
by Heiko W.Rupp
Hey,
the current way we implement the Hawkular-part of the MiQ ui is static,
where we write .haml files that show what properties and relations to
show.
Basically for each resource type one such page exists.
Adding a new kind of server like e.g. Apache Tomcat would need to add
a ton new .haml files.
In RHQ we had a pretty generic UI that was driven off of the metadata
inside the plugin descriptor. If a resource type had <operation>
elements,
then the UI showed the operations tab. Similar for the list of metrics
or the Events tab etc. Also for the resource configuration, the tab and
the
list of configuration properties was driven off of the plugin
descriptor.
See also [1].
The idea is now to apply the same mechanics to the ManageIQ UI so that
the resource type definitions coming from the agent can drive the UI.
We most probably need to extend the current config [2] to show
- what is shown by default
- how relations are to be shown
- which properties should be grouped together
The agent would store those in the resource type, which MiQ
can pull and build the UI from those definitions.
There is currently a rough spot: how to deal with one / more "competing"
WildFly RTs?
In RHQ we had the one canonical definition of a
resource type. Now each agent could send a different one. While
technically we can
work with that, it may be confusing if 2 WF-standalone look different.
It will not happen
often though - especially in container-land, where the config is "backed
into the image".
I wonder if we should change this way of inventory a bit to be similar
to RHQ (but more
simple):
- RT definition is done on the server
- agent asks for the RT definition on 1st start
- MiQ also gets the RT definition from the server.
With Inventory.v3 this may mean that some startup code needs to populate
RTs
and probably periodically refresh them.
Thoughts?
[1]
https://github.com/pilhuhn/misc_writing/blob/master/HowToWriteAnRhqPlugin...
[2]
https://github.com/hawkular/hawkular-agent/blob/master/hawkular-javaagent...
8 years, 8 months
Blogs on Hawkular.org and DZone.com
by Pavol Loffay
Hello bloggers!
I have a good news! Editors from DZone[1] are watching our blog. If you
post an interesting article there is a chance that they will migrate it
onto DZone. However, It's a manual process and they are watching several
sites so they might miss some interesting articles.
We can still manually share articles on DZone and link them with
hawkular.org. It's a preferred way if you want to be sure that your article
will be shared there!
[1]: https://dzone.com/
Regards,
--
PAVOL LOFFAY
Red Hat Česká republika <https://www.redhat.com/>
Purkyňova 111 TPB-B 612 45 Brno
M: +421948286055
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8 years, 8 months
