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The Truth About Building Your Own Authentication Server
Despite a large supply of purchasable solutions, some firms choose to build their own authentication server. While this solution might work for some, there are various potentially unknown drawbacks that you should consider before settling for this method.
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A serverless future
With the rise of serverless and our need to scale, we wanted to explore the possibilities and values that modern serverless platform provides.
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SAML vs OIDC: Which Protocol is Best for Your Organization?
To help you determine which protocol is best suited for your use case, this article carefully explains the similarities and key differences between the two standards and what they each have to offer.
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New Personal Access Tokens (PAT): A game changer for Service Users
In this article, we will explain why we have chosen to introduce PAT in addition to JWT, which audience this change will benefit and how PAT can be implemented into the ZITADEL console.
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OpenID Connect Certification
We are happy to announce that ZITADEL has been officially certified by the OpenID Foundation for the “Basic OP” profile.
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Treat Kubernetes Clusters as Cattle, Not Pets
I’m sure you know the phrase “treat NODES as cattle, not pets”. It means that we’d rather just replace a “sick” instance by a new healthy one than taking it to a doctor. We take it to another level and say “treat CLUSTERS as cattle, not pets”.
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Where should I start if I want to try out or run ZITADEL?
Part (2/2) As you have seen from the first part, ZITADEL runs on Kubernetes. You can use any available cluster with the minimal requirements needed to run ZITADEL (SMTP, SMS-Service, Database, Domain), and get started quickly with ZITADELCTL. Use ORBOS, maybe tailored to use your favorite tools, to automate most of the infrastructure and tools.
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Where should I start if I want to try out or run ZITADEL?
Part (1/2) The first step to integrate a new application into an existing infrastructure is always to determine what the requirements are and the process you need to follow until it is ready to start with the first tests. See what we prepared to make it easy for you to start with ZITADEL and how few requirements you have to try out ZITADEL in the near future yourself.
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Always run a changing system - The CAOS approach
A company's way to build and deploy modern software comes with many different advantages and disadvantages, joy and sweat in real life. See which challenges we had or still have and which strategy we follow to deal with it.
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Our Vision for ZITADEL
We built ZITADEL not only with the vision of becoming a great open source project but also as a superb platform to support developers building their applications, without need to handle secure user login and account management themselves.
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