OpenIddict: 401 errors when two or more service instance count

Question

I have a .NET Core application with Angular2 UI running in a Service Fabric Cluster that I secured using OpenIddict. I followed this example: https://github.com/openiddict/o

Answer 1

I solved this by looking at this: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/security/data-protection/implementation/key-storage-providers#azure-and-redis

Here are the basic steps I took:

1. Create a blob storage account to store the shared keys.

2. Add the following code to your Startup.cs:

var storageAccount = CloudStorageAccount.Parse("blob storage connection string");

//Create the blob client object.
CloudBlobClient blobClient = storageAccount.CreateCloudBlobClient();

//Get a reference to a container to use for the sample code, and create it if it does not exist.
CloudBlobContainer container = blobClient.GetContainerReference("mycontainer");
container.CreateIfNotExists();

services.AddDataProtection()
    .SetApplicationName("MyApplication")
    .PersistKeysToAzureBlobStorage(container, "myblobname");

That was it.