[FR] UI should disable auth if Feathr is deployed with RBAC set to off

[blrchen]

Willingness to contribute

Yes. I can contribute a fix for this bug independently.

Feature Request Proposal

Right now, if user deploys deploys Feathr with RBAC disabled, there are still login prompts when user accesses web UI. The means the RBAC flag only works on server side but not on UI side. This causes many confusions.

A proposed change to improve UI experience is make UI respect rbacEnabled env setting set by deployment, only trigger login flow if this flag is true.

Motivation

What is the use case for this feature?

For users who is working on dev/test or evaluation poc, they would prefer to setup a sandbox environment without RBAC to get started quickly.

Details

No response

What component(s) does this feature request affect?

• Python Client: This is the client users use to interact with most of our API. Mostly written in Python.
• Computation Engine: The computation engine that execute the actual feature join and generation work. Mostly in Scala and Spark.
• Feature Registry API: The frontend API layer supports SQL, Purview(Atlas) as storage. The API layer is in Python(FAST API)
• Feature Registry Web UI: The Web UI for feature registry. Written in React