Login not working when load balancing over multiple Kallithea Instances

Robert Rauch robert.rauch at gns-systems.de
Wed Jan 13 12:24:59 UTC 2016


Thanks, these information are very helpful. In particular, which
configuration data is to be considered secret.

I will hopefully publish my Vagrant environment for this Kallithea
cluster setup on GitHub. As you may have guessed, it makes heavy use of
the Kallithea Puppet module I have written.

Am 13.01.2016 um 10:43 schrieb Søren Løvborg:
> In this context, the name "app_instance_uuid" might be a bit confusing
> (the name is traditional).
> 
> In Kallithea, app_instance_uuid is a per-application ("per-cluster",
> if you will) secret, and should be the same across instances, but
> unique to a given Kallithea site/installation (and kept secret).
> 
> It's used as a secret key for protecting the integrity of password
> reset tokens (among other things?). In a freshly generated config
> file, it's identical to the value of "beaker.session.secret", which is
> similarly used to protect the integrity of cookies.
> 
> /Søren
> 
> On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 9:10 AM, Robert Rauch
> <robert.rauch at gns-systems.de> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Am 13.01.2016 um 00:17 schrieb Mads Kiilerich:
>>> Are the config files completely the same except instance_id - including
>>> beaker.session.secret?
>> Of course not :). Just merged them and it worked like a charm. Thanks!
>>
>> By the way, what is the technical meaning of the `app_instance_uuid`
>> setting?
>>
>> Robert
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