oAuth with Elastic Load Balancer SSL

Question

I am using AWS EC2 instances with ELB. I know that ELB itself has SSL connection enabled. My EC2 instances does not support SSL.

Here comes my problem. I need to implement some kind of authentication method like oAuth.

Is there a way to authenticate users with ELB?

Answer 1

You can't do that on ELB.

I recommend you to take a look at the ELB documentation http://docs.aws.amazon.com/ElasticLoadBalancing/latest/DeveloperGuide/Welcome.html and this blog post http://harish11g.blogspot.com.br/2012/03/ssl-offloading-elastic-load-balancing.html

Answer 2

In Kong, you can do one thing. You can terminate SSL (trusted, can use free SSL via ACM) on ELB of KONG and use the feature Accept HTTP if already terminated in OAUTH2 plugin. But keep in mind the ELB Listeners will be (Secure TCP 443)--> (Secure TCP 8443 [https port exposed by KONG]).