Authentication and Authorization

DevOps glossary terms in Authentication and Authorization.

  • OIDC (OpenID Connect)

    OAuth 2.0-based identity layer that lets apps verify who a user is and get basic profile info via standardized tokens.

    Authentication and Authorization

  • Open Policy Agent (OPA)

    Open Policy Agent (OPA) is an open source policy engine that evaluates rules against requests and configurations to enforce authorization and security checks.

    Authentication and Authorization

  • Kubernetes RBAC

    Kubernetes RBAC controls which users, groups, or service accounts can perform actions on cluster resources to limit access.

    Authentication and Authorization

  • Kubernetes ServiceAccount

    A Kubernetes ServiceAccount is an identity for pods to authenticate to the API server and access cluster resources.

    Authentication and Authorization

  • Kubernetes ClusterRole

    Kubernetes ClusterRole is a cluster-wide RBAC role that defines access to namespace and cluster resources.

    Authentication and Authorization

  • Kubernetes RoleBinding

    Kubernetes RoleBinding assigns a Role鈥檚 namespace permissions to users, groups, or service accounts for RBAC control.

    Authentication and Authorization

  • Kubernetes ClusterRoleBinding

    Kubernetes ClusterRoleBinding maps a ClusterRole to users, groups, or service accounts for cluster-wide RBAC access.

    Authentication and Authorization

  • Kubernetes Role

    Kubernetes Role is a namespaced RBAC object that defines allowed actions on resources, applied through RoleBindings.

    Authentication and Authorization

  • Open Policy Agent (OPA)

    Open Policy Agent (OPA) is an open source policy engine that checks rules for requests, deployments, and access.

    Authentication and Authorization

  • AWS STS AssumeRole

    AWS STS AssumeRole is an API call that returns temporary credentials for access allowed by another IAM role.

    Authentication and Authorization

  • AWS IAM Role

    AWS IAM Role is an identity with permissions that services, users, or workloads assume to access AWS resources.

    Authentication and Authorization