gRPC API Guide

Protobuf files

To communicate with TSB over a gRPC connection you will need the protobuf and gRPC service definition files. Please contact your Tetrate account manager if you wish to acquire them.

In this guide you'll see how you can use the TSB gRPC API to perform common operations on the platform. The examples in this guide use the Go bindings, as those are the ones we provide on request by default, but gRPC clients generated for other languages will work as well.

Initializing the gRPC client

Transport configuration

The first thing to configure when creating the gRPC client is the connection to TSB. Depending how TSB is exposed, you can configure the connection as a plain-text connection or as a TLS one.

Configuring a plain-text connection

To configure a plain text connection, use the following gRPC dial options:

opts := []grpc.DialOption{
	grpc.WithBlock(), // Block when calling Dial until the connection is really established
	grpc.WithInsecure(),
}
tsbAddress := "<tsb host>:<tsb port>"
cc, err := grpc.DialContext(ctx, tsbAddress, opts...)

The first option will instruct the gRPC client to block on the Dial call until the connection has been established, the second option configures the plain-text transport credentials.

Configuring a TLS connection

If TSB is exposed via TLS, you should enable TLS connections as follows:

tlsConfig := &tls.Config{}  // Default TLS configuration to use the host CA
creds := credentials.NewTLS(tlsConfig)
opts := []grpc.DialOption{
	grpc.WithBlock(), // Block when calling Dial until the connection is really established
	grpc.WithTransportCredentials(creds),
}
tsbAddress := "<tsb host>:<tsb port>"
cc, err := grpc.DialContext(ctx, tsbAddress, opts...)

The default TLS configuration will use the host CA to verify the certificate presented by the TSB server. If the certificate cannot be validated by that CA because it's self-signed, or because its root CA is not a public one, configure the TLS connection with a custom CA as follows:

// Read the custom CA bundle from a file
ca, err := ioutil.ReadFile("custom-ca.crt")
if err != nil {
	return fmt.Errorf("failed to load CA file: %w", err)
}
// Load the CA bundle into an x509 certificate pool
certs := x509.NewCertPool()
if ok := certs.AppendCertsFromPEM(ca); !ok {
	return errors.New("error loading CA")

}
// Configure the TLS options to use the loaded root CA
tlsConfig := &tls.Config{
	RootCAs: certs,
}

Finally, if you want to establish a TLS connection, but don't want to validate the server certificate, you can skip the validation by configuring the TLS options as follows:

tlsConfig := &tls.Config{
	InsecureSkipVerify: true,
}

This will instruct the gRPC client to establish a TLS connection without validating the certificate presented by TSB.

Authentication

Once the transport options have been configured, you must set authentication as well. Authentication is configured as a credentials.PerRPCCredentials object.

TSB has two main authentication mechanisms: basic authentication and JWT token authentication.

Basic Auth

In order to configure basic authentication, you can use a helper object that implements the gRPC interfaces you need. The following code shows an example of how to configure it:

// BasicAuth is an HTTP Basic credentials provider for gRPC
type BasicAuth struct {
	Username string
	Password string
}

// GetRequestMetadata implements credentials.PerRPCCredentials
func (b BasicAuth) GetRequestMetadata(_ context.Context, _ ...string) (map[string]string, error) {
	auth := b.Username + ":" + b.Password
	enc := base64.StdEncoding.EncodeToString([]byte(auth))
	return map[string]string{"authorization": "Basic " + enc}, nil
}

// RequireTransportSecurity implements credentials.PerRPCCredentials
func (BasicAuth) RequireTransportSecurity() bool {
	return false
}

With this object in place, configure the gRPC client to use Basic Authentication as follows:

auth := BasicAuth{
	Username: "username",
	Password: "password",
}

opts := []grpc.DialOption{
	grpc.WithBlock(), // Block when calling Dial until the connection is really established
	grpc.WithPerRPCCredentials(auth),
}
tsbAddress := "<tsb host>:<tsb port>"
cc, err := grpc.DialContext(ctx, tsbAddress, opts...)

JWT Token Auth

For JWT Token-based authentication, use a supporting object that will facilitate configuring the gRPC options:

// TokenAuth is a JWT based credentials provider for gRPC
type TokenAuth string

// GetRequestMetadata implements credentials.PerRPCCredentials
func (t TokenAuth) GetRequestMetadata(_ context.Context, _ ...string) (map[string]string, error) {
	return map[string]string{"x-tetrate-token": string(t)}, nil
}

// RequireTransportSecurity implements credentials.PerRPCCredentials
func (TokenAuth) RequireTransportSecurity() bool {
	return false
}

Then, configure the gRPC client with the following DialOptions:

auth := TokenAuth("jwt-token")

opts := []grpc.DialOption{
	grpc.WithBlock(), // Block when calling Dial until the connection is really established
	grpc.WithPerRPCCredentials(auth),
}
tsbAddress := "<tsb host>:<tsb port>"
cc, err := grpc.DialContext(ctx, tsbAddress, opts...)

Example: creating organizations, tenants and workspaces

The following example demonstrates how you can instantiate the different TSB gRPC clients using the configured connection to access TSB's different APIs.

var (
	tsbAddress = "<tsb host>:<tsb port>"
	username   = "username"
	password   = "password"

	tlsConfig = &tls.Config{
		// Add any custom TLS options
	}
)

// ----------------------------------
// Connection configuration
// ----------------------------------

opts := []grpc.DialOption{
	grpc.WithBlock(),
	grpc.WithTransportCredentials(credentials.NewTLS(tlsConfig)),
	grpc.WithPerRPCCredentials(BasicAuth{
		Username: username,
		Password: password,
	}),
}

cc, err := grpc.DialContext(context.Background(), tsbAddress, opts...)
if err != nil {
	panic(err)
}

// ------------------------------------------------
// gRPC client creation and API usage
// ------------------------------------------------

var (
	orgsClient       = v2.NewOrganizationsClient(cc)
	tenantsClient    = v2.NewTenantsClient(cc)
	workspacesClient = v2.NewWorkspacesClient(cc)
)

ctx, cancel := context.WithTimeout(context.Background(), 10*time.Second)
defer cancel()

org, err := orgsClient.CreateOrganization(ctx, &v2.CreateOrganizationRequest{
	Name: "myorg",
	Organization: &v2.Organization{
		DisplayName: "My Organization",
		Description: "Organization created using the TSB gRPC API",
	},
})
if err != nil {
	panic(err)
}
fmt.Printf("Created organization %q (%s)\n", org.DisplayName, org.Fqn)

tenant, err := tenantsClient.CreateTenant(ctx, &v2.CreateTenantRequest{
	Parent: org.Fqn, // Create the tenant in the organization we just created
	Name:   "mytenant",
	Tenant: &v2.Tenant{
		DisplayName: "My Tenant",
		Description: "Tenant created using the TSB gRPC API",
	},
})
if err != nil {
	panic(err)
}
fmt.Printf("Created tenant %q (%s)\n", tenant.DisplayName, tenant.Fqn)

ws, err := workspacesClient.CreateWorkspace(ctx, &v2.CreateWorkspaceRequest{
	Parent: tenant.Fqn, // Create the workspace in the tenant we just created
	Name:   "myworkspace",
	Workspace: &v2.Workspace{
		DisplayName: "My Workspace",
		Description: "Workspace created using the TSB gRPC API",
		NamespaceSelector: &typesv2.NamespaceSelector{
			Names: []string{"*/*"},
		},
	},
})
if err != nil {
	panic(err)
}
fmt.Printf("Created workspace %q (%s)\n", ws.DisplayName, ws.Fqn)

Appendix

Obtaining JWT tokens from TSB

The first time you connect to TSB, you may not have a token. If you want to use token-based authentication, you can exchange the basic authentication credentials for a session token to connect to TSB.

The following example shows a helper function that can be used to get an access token that you can configure in the JWT Token-based authentication options:

func GetToken(ctx context.Context, address string, username string, password string) (string, error) {
	tlsConfig := &tls.Config{
		// Add any custom TLS options
	}
	creds := credentials.NewTLS(tlsConfig)
	opts := []grpc.DialOption{
		grpc.WithBlock(),
		grpc.WithTransportCredentials(creds),
		// Note we are not configuring per RPC credentials here. This will create
		// a connection to the TSB IAM API and credentials will be provided in
		//  in the request payload
	}

	cc, err := grpc.DialContext(ctx, address, opts...)
	if err != nil {
		return "", err
	}
	defer func() { _ = cc.Close() }()

	iamClient := iam.NewAuthenticationClient(cc)

	tokens, err := iamClient.Authenticate(ctx, &iam.Credentials{
		Auth: &iam.Credentials_Basic{
			Basic: &iam.Credentials_BasicAuth{
				Username: username,
				Password: password,
			},
		},
	})

	if err != nil {
		return "", err
	}

	return tokens.BearerToken, nil
}