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vCenter Server Identity Federation with Pocket ID

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Having explored various OIDC identity providers, including Authentik, KeyCloak and Synology SSO, I recently came across Pocket ID, a super basic OIDC provider. Instead of using traditional username and passwords, Pocket ID only supports passkeys authentication based on the WebAuthn standard, which means you can login to your vCenter Server or VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) environment using a physical device like a Yubico YubiKey or Apple Face ID.


Disclaimer: Pocket ID is not an officially supported vCenter Server IdP, please use at your own risk.

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vCenter Server Identity Federation with Synology SSO

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I recently found another cool use case for my Synology NAS, which is using the Synology SSO application to setup vCenter Server Identity Federation. I had not considered looking at Synology, but I was recently setting up some additional DNS entries and noticed there was SSO Server application, that supports both SAML2 and OIDC.


For those with a Synology, this is a super easy way to get hands on experience with configuring vCenter Server Identity Federation and this can all run locally within your environment, unlike some of the other external identity providers which typically will require direct/in-direction connection to your vCenter Server or require a SCIM (System for Cross-domain Identity Management) proxy server.

Disclaimer: Synology SSO is currently not an officially supported vCenter Server IdP, please use at your own risk.

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Setup HTTPS for OIDC endpoint with Authentik and Keycloak for vCenter Server or VCF Identity Federation

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If you have been following my recent adventures in playing with both Authentik and Keycloak as an OAuth/OIDC Identity Provider (IdP) for use with vCenter Server or VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) Identity Federation, you can take it one step further and authenticate with a Yubico YubiKey or Apple Face ID for additional security.

In my original setup, the OIDC endpoint provided by both Authentik and Keycloak was using HTTP and works perfectly fine with both vCenter Server and SDDC Manager for a VCF-based environment. With that said, if you have a requirement to serve the OIDC endpoint over HTTPS, which is a requirement for using WebAuthn (e.g. YubiKey, Face Id, etc), then some additional configurations are required on both the identity provider as well on the vCenter Server side depending on the type of TLS certificate you are using.

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