The EDC default web context is deployed on HTTP port 8181. This context contains the health endpoint at http://localhost:8181/api/check/health.
The Registration Service REST Controller is deployed in a additional EDC web context named authority.
The port mapping and REST URL path for this context must be specified in deployment.
For example in Docker Compose:
environment:
WEB_HTTP_AUTHORITY_PORT: 8182
WEB_HTTP_AUTHORITY_PATH: /authority
This makes the List Participants endpoint available at http://localhost:8182/authority/registry/participants.
DID-based JWS authentication will be used for the Registration Service controller, using a JAX-RS filter.
However, for docker health check (used in docker compose up --wait in CI to wait until containers have successfully started), we use curl to access the health endpoint, which is deployed in the EDC default context. Therefore, we do not want to apply our authentication filter to the default context, and need to introduce an additional context for the API controller.
It is also good practice not to expose health and management endpoints to public access. Deploying them on a different ports allow deployments to expose their port on internal routes only.