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signed urls

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Description

At today's Pangeo meeting, we discussed the idea of using signed urls to provided unauthenticated users access to google cloud storage, specifically for reading zarr stores. I'm creating this issue to track that idea.

I found this page in the gcs docs with some helpful advice.
https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/access-control/signing-urls-manually

How would we go about "proxying" access to a restricted bucket via signed urls? I can't quite wrap my head around it. Where would the signing happen? It couldn't happen from the user's notebook pod--it would have to happen from within some service running somewhere with enhanced credentials. Could we connect it to jupyterhub's auth? Or to our auth0 account?

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Research direction

No implementation files or tests are named. Start with the linked Google Cloud Storage manual signing-URLs documentation, then investigate how a service could sign restricted-bucket requests for unauthenticated Zarr reads and how JupyterHub or Auth0 might fit. Done means an agreed, implementable design or a documented decision that this approach is out of scope.

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Assessment

Tech stack
gcp, python
Domain
authentication, cloud
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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