Introducing Okta Journeys: A Better Way for Developers to Learn Identity

Learning identity management is hard enough. Navigating Okta’s documentation to build something shouldn’t be. If you’ve ever lost an afternoon stitching together how-to guides, product docs, and scattered blog posts just to figure out where to start, you’re not alone – and we’ve heard you, loudly and repeatedly.

Today, we’re excited to announce the official launch of Journeys: a new way to navigate Okta documentation built around the tasks you’re actually trying to accomplish.

What are Okta Journeys for developers?

A Journey is a curated, expert-driven, end-to-end guide built around a small-to-medium-sized development project. Rather than sending you to find a single document and piece the rest together yourself, each Journey walks you through the entire project, from foundational concepts to completion.

Journeys address the most frequent questions we’ve heard from developers. Every Journey includes both brand-new material and revised content to ensure that what you’re reading is accurate, up to date, and genuinely useful.

Each Journey organizes content into three main sections.

Learn identity foundations

Before you write a single line of code, it helps to know the terrain. The Learn section anchors the broad “identity” concept, covering foundational knowledge including Okta features, software development kits (SDKs), and application programming interfaces (APIs) relevant to your task. Whether you’re new to Okta or just unfamiliar with a specific area, this section gives you the vocabulary and mental model you need to make informed decisions. It ensures you’re not just following steps, but truly understanding the technology and concepts underlying your project.

Plan your customer identity implementation

Good implementations start with good planning. The Plan section walks you through the key decision points to consider before you begin – from the pros and cons of migration strategies and deployment models to configuration options, rate limits, and key performance indicators (KPIs). These are all common concerns from the field. Decisions made here shape everything that follows, so you won’t discover them for the first time mid-build.

Build and implement identity solutions

This is where everything comes together. The Build section presents a carefully curated collection of resources, organized to guide you through your project from start to finish. No more hunting across technical content channels to find the correct how-to guide, configuration advice, Knowledge Base (KB) article, blog post, API endpoint details, or videos. Everything you need is in one place, in the right order.

Every Journey covers the Okta-recommended approach and adds common alternatives when practical, because we know one size doesn’t always fit all.

Six Okta Journeys available now

The first six Journeys are live today, targeting Okta Customer Identity (OCI) builders developing and securing customer-facing portals. If you’re working on user authentication, registration, company branding, or user management, these Journeys are for you.

Explore Journeys

What’s next: Okta for AI agents and more

This is just the beginning. We’re already building new Journeys to tackle high-impact, emerging scenarios, including:

• Okta for AI Agents: Detect, identify, manage, register, and govern your AI agents.
• Building for the Okta Integration Network (OIN): Journeys for developers building different types of integrations for the Okta Integration Network.
• Classic Engine to Okta Identity Engine Migration: Update your org to Okta Identity Engine and remove the Classic Engine-specific code from your apps.

We are committed to continuously expanding this library so that, no matter your development goal, you have a clear, expert-guided path to success.

Tell us what you think

These Journeys will fundamentally improve your development experience. Explore them, share your feedback, and let us know what Journeys you’d like to see next. Use the feedback tab on the Journey page, reach out to us on the Okta Developer Forums, or find us on socials.

Happy building.

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