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feat: Tokens for use with the REST API

Open jesuino opened this issue 1 year ago • 1 comments

Provide a clear and concise description of the feature request

As user I want to interact with the REST APIs from my third part application, but currently it is not possible to generate a token from UI or from other endpoint.

The backstage UI sends a bearer token for all API requests, but users currently can't do it without inspecting requests from Backstage UI:

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Describe the problem that this feature resolves

Allow third part applications to consume backstage REST API.

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Acceptance Criteria

A documented endpoint or UI screen should allow users to generate tokens that can be used with the REST API.

jesuino avatar Nov 22 '23 18:11 jesuino