Discourse is a really great opensource forum, written in Ruby on Rails and Ember.js.
We should try to use it to complement mailing lists and IRC in internal communication, when we need persistent, searchable discussions (with helpful links to the outside world) for a broad and offtopicky subjects.
My aim is to set up an instance (probably in Cloud, but Discourse natural deployment strategy is docker), bind it to our internal SAML for authentication, and call that https://discourse.suse.de
SAML authorization proxy
https://gitlab.suse.de/kpimenov/samlauthproxy
Deployment scripts (for SLE12)
https://gitlab.suse.de/kpimenov/discourse_playbook
Setup for demo:
In the /etc/hosts
file:
10.162.168.34 discourse.suse.de
10.162.168.34 discourse-auth-proxy.suse.de
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over 9 years ago by kpimenov | Reply
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It turns out, auth plugin is not the right path for us to follow, as it can only complement classical login-and-password auth in Discourse.
The correct way to implement only the SAML SSO is to build a proxy, which will respond to Discourse SSO spec and forward requests to the selected SAML endpoint.
That's my plan for today.
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over 9 years ago by darix | Reply
- you can have emails. even opening new threads via email should be possible.
- you don't need saml. ancor already has an omniauth plugin for ichain style auth.
- we already have discourse packages and I actually have it running on my private machine.
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