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vCenter Server Identity Federation with Authentik Identity Provider

01.13.2025 by William Lam // 2 Comments

While answering a recent question on the VMware Reddit Community, I came to learn about Authentik, an open source identity provider (IdP), which is pretty feature rich and best of all, you can self-host the Authentik IdP solution.

While Authentik is not one of the officially supported Identity Providers for vCenter Server Identity Federation such as Okta, Microsoft Entra ID, Microsoft ADFS or PingFederate, I was curious if it would to allow me to easily play with the Identity Federation feature in vCenter Server? 🤔

Hint: It works! 😁

Disclaimer: Authentik is currently not an officially supported vCenter Server IdP as mentioned earlier, please use at your own risk.

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Categories // VCSA, VMware Cloud Foundation, vSphere, vSphere 8.0 Tags // Authentik, Identity Provider, OAuth, OIDC, SCIM, vCenter Server

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