What is Identity?

Identity is the component within the Camunda 8 stack responsible for authentication and authorization. It allows you to manage:

• Applications
• APIs
• Roles
• Permissions

For example, using Identity you can:

• Manage roles, which is a way to group sets of permissions which can be assigned to users using the Identity UI.
• Manage permissions to control the level of access a user or an application has to a particular component.
• Manage groups to apply a set of roles and authorizations to users.
• Manage resource authorizations to control resource access within the Identity application.
• Utilize configuration variables.

Next steps

If you're new to Identity, we suggest reviewing our getting started guide.

You can use Identity for authentication with Keycloak. The following guidance can be used during platform installation and deployment:

• Use existing Keycloak
• Connect to an OIDC provider