Secure Eureka Dashboard with Spring Security

In this tutorial, I am going to share with you how to secure Spring Cloud Eureka dashboard with Spring Security.

To learn how to build RESTful Microservices with Spring Cloud by watching step-by-step video lessons, please check this page: Spring Boot Microservices and Spring Cloud.

Add Spring Security to Eureka

To secure Eureka with Spring Security we will need to add Spring Security dependency to a pom.xml file of our Eureka Discovery Server Spring Boot project. Open the pom.xml file of your Eureka Discovery Server project and add the following dependency.

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
    <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-security</artifactId>
</dependency>

Eureka Discovery Server Application Properties File

Once you have added the Spring Security dependency to the pom.xml file, as shown above, open application.properties file of your Eureka Discovery Server and add the following configuration properties:

spring.security.basic.enabled=true
spring.security.user.name=theusername
spring.security.user.password=thepassword

Configure HttpSecurity

The next step is to configure HttpSecurity object in Eureka Discovery Server. To do that, create a new Java class and make it extend WebSecurityConfigurerAdapter, as it is shown in the example below. Override the configure() method and configure HttpSecurity object as is shown below:

import org.springframework.security.config.annotation.web.builders.HttpSecurity;
import org.springframework.security.config.annotation.web.configuration.EnableWebSecurity;
import org.springframework.security.config.annotation.web.configuration.WebSecurityConfigurerAdapter;

@EnableWebSecurity
public class WebSecurity extends WebSecurityConfigurerAdapter {

        @Override
        protected void configure(HttpSecurity http) throws Exception {
        http
                .csrf()
                .disable()
                .authorizeRequests()
                .anyRequest().authenticated()
                .and()
                .httpBasic();
        }
}
 

Do not forget to annotate this class with @EnableWebSecurity annotation.

Eureka Discovery Server is now protected with Spring Security and is ready to be used.

If you attempt to open Eureka dashboard in the browser window now, you should be prompted to provide username and password first.

Eureka Client Configuration

To make your Microservices and other Eureka clients be able to authenticate with Eureka and register with it. Add the following configuration properties to application.properties file of your Eureka Client:

eureka.client.serviceUrl.defaultZone=http://theusername:thepassword@localhost:8010/eureka

Notice that the Eureka Default Zone URL now has the username and password added. If the username and the password match the ones you have configured in the application.properties file of your Discovery Server then your Eureka Client should be able to successfully authenticate and register.

I hope this tutorial was helpful to you.

Spring Cloud Video Course

If you are interested in learning more about building RESTful Web Services with Spring Boot and Spring Cloud, and you enjoy learning by watching step-by-step video lessons, then have a look at this video course: Spring Boot Microservices and Spring Cloud.

Happy learning!