Configuring a third-party SAML Identity Provider for Apigee

On this article, we will probably be taking a look at how you can configure a SAML Identification Supplier (Auth0 on this case) for signing in to Apigee’s Built-in Developer Portal.

The standard strategy to sign up to an Apigee Built-in Developer Portal is thru the built-in Identification Supplier choice. It requires customers to cross their credentials (username and password; person registration ought to be accomplished if not an current person) to the built-in portal for authentication. Once you create a brand new portal, the built-in id supplier is configured and enabled. To grasp the sign-in expertise from the person perspective, see Signing in to the portal utilizing person credentials (built-in supplier).

Now you can configure the Apigee Built-in Developer Portal with any third-party id supplier that helps Safety Assertion Markup Language (SAML), a regular protocol for imposing Single Signal-On (SSO). SSO authentication utilizing SAML permits you to log in to your Apigee Built-in Developer Portal(s) with out having to create new accounts, through the use of your current accounts registered with the Identification Supplier. The SAML integration function is at the moment in Preview.

Configuring SAML as an Identification Supplier for an Built-in Developer Portal gives the next advantages:

• Arrange your developer program as soon as and re-use it throughout a number of built-in portals. Select your developer program when creating your Built-in Developer Portal. Simply replace or change the developer program as necessities evolve.

• Take full management of person administration. Join your organization SAML server to the Built-in Developer Portal. When customers go away your group and are deprovisioned centrally, they are going to not have the ability to authenticate together with your SSO service to make use of the Built-in Developer Portal.

To configure the SAML supplier, it is advisable configure service supplier (Apigee) in addition to id supplier (reminiscent of Auth0) as under.

Configure the Service Supplier (Apigee) 

1. Choose Publish > Portals within the facet navigation bar to show the checklist of portals.

2. Click on Accounts on the portal touchdown web page. Alternatively, you’ll be able to choose Accounts within the portal drop-down within the prime navigation bar.

3. Click on the Authentication tab.

4. Within the Identification suppliers part, click on the SAML supplier kind.

5. Choose the Enabled checkbox to allow the id supplier.

6. Click on Save.