During the SAML SSO configuration for our Jenkins, I faced an issue, when some attributes weren’t passed from Okta to the Jenkins instance. So in this post will try to figure out what is SAML in general, will take a short overview of its architecture and main components, and will make some SAML-requests tracing/sniffing to… Read More »
And going forward with Okta setup for our project. Previous posts: Okta: SSO authentication for Gmail and Slack Jenkins: SAML Authentication with Okta SSO and users groups Jenkins: SAML, Okta, users groups, and Role-Based Security plugin Github: SAML, Okta, and Github Enterprise Cloud – Organization SSO configuration The next task is to integrate our Google… Read More »
As a follow-up to the SSO, Okta, and SAML. We already did everything for our Jenkins (see the Jenkins: SAML, Okta, user groups, and Role-Based Security plugin post) – now it’s time to do the same thing with our Github organization. The idea is the same as for the Jenkins’ setup: keep all users in… Read More »
Still on the subject of the Okta and SSO for Jenkins – let’s configure a Role-Based Security plugin for our Jenkins. See the first part in the Jenkins: SAML Authentication with Okta SSO and users groups post. The general idea is to have user groups defined in the Okta, and Okta has to pass a… Read More »
SAML – Secure Assertion Markup Language is used for federated authentication when some service which we need to get access to (a Service Provider), asks another service (an Identity Provider) to perform a user’s authentification. Check the documentation here>>>. Service Provider (SP): is a system where need to authenticate, in our case this will be Jenkins… Read More »
Okta is a service which provides Single Sign-On ability. I’d like to move all our users to the Okta for better management, so the task now will be to create a Gmail mailbox account and Slack community access. Okta Gmail app Register a new account, go to the Get started, in the Use single sign-on… Read More »