Advanced Authentication patterns at the Edge

With the spread of micro services, it becomes a best practice to manage the authentication at the Edge (using an API gateway) instead of implementing it independently for each service. But this approach also introduces new challenges:

  • how does the application know who the user is ?
  • how can the application get more information about the user ?
  • how can the application force a logout ?
  • what about the authorization ? In this talk, I’ll cover the different authentication mechanisms (OAuth, JWT, …) and show how to overcome these challenges with practical examples and demos

Speaker

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Denis Jannot

  

Denis is the Director of Field Engineering at Solo.io, a company building application networking solutions for the edge and service mesh.

Denis is a passionate engineer who has spent his career in

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