Staging Environment Protection

Configuration for Heroku

Add # BASIC_AUTH: 'admin:some-memorable-password' to application.example.yml, then run the following command:

heroku config:set BASIC_AUTH='admin:[first-memorable-password]' --app [your-app]-develop

Finally, save the passwords in 1Password.

Configuration for Deploio

HTTP Basic Authentication should be configured to prevent public traffic on our development applications.

With Deploio, configure Basic Auth in the Rails app:

Managing Basic Auth via Rails

To manage Basic Auth via Rails, use the following commands:

nctl config set --project {PROJECT_NAME} --application {APPLICATION_NAME} --env=BASIC_AUTH={USERNAME}:{PASSWORD}
nctl config set --project {PROJECT_NAME} --application {APPLICATION_NAME} --basic-auth false

ApplicationController Configuration

Configure the ApplicationController like this when managing Basic Auth via Rails:

class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base
  # ...

  ENV['BASIC_AUTH'].to_s.split(':').presence&.then do |username, password|
    http_basic_authenticate_with name: username, password: password
  end

  # ...
end