Bring consistency to config options

The configuration options that exist in bmcweb are an amalgimation of
CROW options, CMAKE options using #define, pre-bmcweb ifdef mechanisms
and meson options using a config file.  This history has led to a lot of
different ways to configure code in the codebase itself, which has led
to problems, and issues in consistency.

ifdef options do no compile time checking of code not within the branch.
This is good when you have optional dependencies, but not great when
you're trying to ensure both options compile.

This commit moves all internal configuration options to:
1. A namespace called bmcweb
2. A naming scheme matching the meson option.  hyphens are replaced with
   underscores, and the option is uppercased.  This consistent transform
   allows matching up option keys with their code counterparts, without
   naming changes.
3. All options are bool true = enabled, and any options with _ENABLED or
   _DISABLED postfixes have those postfixes removed.  (note, there are
   still some options with disable in the name, those are left as-is)
4. All options are now constexpr booleans, without an explicit compare.

To accomplish this, unfortunately an option list in config/meson.build
is required, given that meson doesn't provide a way to dump all options,
as is a manual entry in bmcweb_config.h.in, in addition to the
meson_options.  This obsoletes the map in the main meson.build, which
helps some of the complexity.

Now that we've done this, we have some rules that will be documented.
1. Runtime behavior changes should be added as a constexpr bool to
   bmcweb_config.h
2. Options that require optionally pulling in a dependency shall use an
   ifdef, defined in the primary meson.build.  (note, there are no
   options that currently meet this class, but it's included for
   completeness.)

Note, that this consolidation means that at configure time, all options
are printed.  This is a good thing and allows direct comparison of
configs in log files.

Tested: Code compiles
Server boots, and shows options configured in the default build. (HTTPS,
log level, etc)

Change-Id: I94e79a56bcdc01755036e4e7278c7e69e25809ce
Signed-off-by: Ed Tanous <ed@tanous.net>
35 files changed
tree: fcf84de17508887775cc14a9c15ad4a41d72b049
  1. .github/
  2. config/
  3. http/
  4. include/
  5. redfish-core/
  6. scripts/
  7. src/
  8. static/
  9. subprojects/
  10. test/
  11. .clang-format
  12. .clang-tidy
  13. .codespell-ignore
  14. .dockerignore
  15. .gitignore
  16. .markdownlint.yaml
  17. .openbmc-enforce-gitlint
  18. .prettierignore
  19. .shellcheck
  20. AGGREGATION.md
  21. CLIENTS.md
  22. COMMON_ERRORS.md
  23. DBUS_USAGE.md
  24. DEVELOPING.md
  25. HEADERS.md
  26. LICENSE
  27. meson.build
  28. meson_options.txt
  29. OEM_SCHEMAS.md
  30. OWNERS
  31. README.md
  32. Redfish.md
  33. REDFISH_CHECKLIST.md
  34. run-ci
  35. TESTING.md
README.md

OpenBMC webserver

This component attempts to be a "do everything" embedded webserver for OpenBMC.

Features

The webserver implements a few distinct interfaces:

  • DBus event websocket. Allows registering on changes to specific dbus paths, properties, and will send an event from the websocket if those filters match.
  • OpenBMC DBus REST api. Allows direct, low interference, high fidelity access to dbus and the objects it represents.
  • Serial: A serial websocket for interacting with the host serial console through websockets.
  • Redfish: A protocol compliant, DBus to Redfish translator.
  • KVM: A websocket based implementation of the RFB (VNC) frame buffer protocol intended to mate to webui-vue to provide a complete KVM implementation.

Protocols

bmcweb at a protocol level supports http and https. TLS is supported through OpenSSL.

AuthX

Authentication

Bmcweb supports multiple authentication protocols:

  • Basic authentication per RFC7617
  • Cookie based authentication for authenticating against webui-vue
  • Mutual TLS authentication based on OpenSSL
  • Session authentication through webui-vue
  • XToken based authentication conformant to Redfish DSP0266

Each of these types of authentication is able to be enabled or disabled both via runtime policy changes (through the relevant Redfish APIs) or via configure time options. All authentication mechanisms supporting username/password are routed to libpam, to allow for customization in authentication implementations.

Authorization

All authorization in bmcweb is determined at routing time, and per route, and conform to the Redfish PrivilegeRegistry.

*Note: Non-Redfish functions are mapped to the closest equivalent Redfish privilege level.

Configuration

bmcweb is configured per the meson build files. Available options are documented in meson_options.txt

Compile bmcweb with default options

meson setup builddir
ninja -C builddir

If any of the dependencies are not found on the host system during configuration, meson will automatically download them via its wrap dependencies mentioned in bmcweb/subprojects.

Use of persistent data

bmcweb relies on some on-system data for storage of persistent data that is internal to the process. Details on the exact data stored and when it is read/written can seen from the persistent_data namespace.

TLS certificate generation

When SSL support is enabled and a usable certificate is not found, bmcweb will generate a self-signed a certificate before launching the server. Please see the bmcweb source code for details on the parameters this certificate is built with.

Redfish Aggregation

bmcweb is capable of aggregating resources from satellite BMCs. Refer to AGGREGATION.md for more information on how to enable and use this feature.