Technical requirements

We’ll create and process authorization tokens in this chapter, and for that, we need the PyJWT package, which you install like this:

$ pip install pyjwt

We could include (hardcode) the created tokens in our Django app and microservices, but that would be rather unsafe. Therefore, we’ll include the tokens as settings in a safe .env file, and to process the tokens, we’ll apply the python-dotenv package, which you install as follows:

$ pip install python-dotenv

Furthermore, you’ll find the files for this chapter on GitHub at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Hands-on-Microservices-with-Django/tree/main/Chapter09.