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Integrate authentication into your app
The following links outline what you need to know to successfully integrate authentication in to your app. The guides cover planning, designing, building, deploying, and troubleshooting apps that require user management, authentication, and API authorization.
If you're using Okta as an identity layer for the first time, start with How Okta Works and the Okta Data Model. Then, review the following guides.
Get the basics:
Sign users in:
Authorize:
- Implement authorization by grant type
- Configure SSO for native apps
- Refresh access tokens
- Validate access tokens
- Validate ID tokens
- Configure an access policy
- Customize tokens returned from Okta with custom claims
- Customize tokens returned from Okta with Groups claim
- Customize tokens returned from Okta with a dynamic allowlist
- Customize tokens returned from Okta with a static allowlist
Brand and customize:
Deploy to production:
Automate management of your Okta org using Terraform:
- Essentials
- Create and manage resources
- Manage groups of users with Terraform
- Manage user access with Terraform
- Manage external authentication services with Terraform
- Manage device connection requirements
- Create a custom authorization server
- Manage branding with Terraform
- Manage custom domains with Terraform
- Import existing Okta objects into Terraform
- Optimize your configuration
Customize Okta process flows with event or inline hooks:
Publish an integration in the OIN
Partner integrations connect your app or service to our mutual customers. One of the most common integrations is Single Sign-On (SSO), which gives Okta users the ability to sign in directly to your application through Okta. Many partners also build provisioning integrations (using the SCIM protocol) to automate lifecycle management use cases for their customers. Integrations can also extend Okta functionality or integrate with your service in more complex ways.
You can publish your integration in the Okta Integration Network (OIN) catalog to expose your app to thousands of Okta Workforce customers.
If you're creating an Okta integration for the first time, Okta recommends the following sequence of guides:
- OIN landing
- Overview of Single Sign-On in the OIN
- Overview of lifecycle management in the OIN
- Overview of API service apps in the OIN
- OIN submission requirements
- Submit an app integration
Perform Identity Governance tasks through the API
Most Okta Identity Governance tasks are accomplished through the Admin Console for admins or the Okta End-User Dashboard for end users. However, you might want to perform the same UI tasks through a customized app or automated service using Okta APIs. In some cases, specific tasks and flows are only triggered through the API or other Okta apps, such as Workflows (opens new window). For these API uses cases, the following guides provide best practice implementation flows and examples for Okta Identity Governance subscribers:
- Access certifications