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Apache Mesos Cookbook
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In this recipe, you will learn how to enable HTTP basic authentication to limit a user who can access the Marathon API.
Before you start, ensure Marathon is up and running. Before applying any authentication, ensure you enabled SSL to protect secrets from eavesdropping.
Update the configuration with credentials:
echo MARATHON_HTTP_CREDENTIALS=username:password >> /etc/default/marathonCheck the API requires authentication:
curl -k https://localhost:8443/pingThe preceding command should return a 401 Unauthorized code, while the following command should work. From now, all interactions with Marathon require passing credentials:
curl -k -u username:password https://localhost:8443/pingWhen HTTP credentials are passed to Marathon, it checks HTTP request headers for credentials and compares them with those configured. When no credentials are provided or the provided credentials don't match, it returns a 401 error code...