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Enabling Okta SSO Connections with Your OVHcloud Account

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Stephanie Richards
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Learn how to associate your OVHcloud account with an external Okta service.

You can use Single Sign-On (SSO) to connect to your OVHcloud account. To enable these connections, your account and your Okta accounts have to be configured using SAML (Security Assertion Markup Language) authentications.

 

Requirements

 

Instructions

For a service provider (i.e. your OVHcloud account) to establish an SSO connection with an identity provider (i.e. your Okta service), the key is to establish a mutual trust relationship by registering the SSO connection in both services.

Registering OVHcloud into Okta

Your Okta service acts as an identity provider. Requests to authenticate your OVHcloud account will only be accepted if you have first declared it as a trusted third party.

This means that it must be added to Applications.

Log in to the Okta administration interface with your administrator account.

Go to Applications then again Applications.

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Click Create App Integration, select SAML 2.0, then select Next.

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In the General Settings step, add a name for this application, such as "OVHcloud," and click Next.

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In the SAML Settings step, complete the Single sign-on URL and Audience URI fields with the information below:

  • Single sign-on URL: https://us.ovhcloud.com/auth/ and
  • Audience URI: https://us.ovhcloud.com/auth/

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Then set the following Attribute Statements:

  • Name: http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2005/05/identity/claims/upn and Value: user.login
  • Name: http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2005/05/identity/claims/emailaddress and Value: user.email
  • Name: http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2005/05/identity/claims/name and Value: user.displayName

Set these Group Attribute Statements:

  • Name: groups and Filter: Matches regex:.* (Adapt the filter if you want to be more specific)

Click Next.

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In the Feedback step, select the appropriate option and click Finish.

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Then open the application, go to the Assignments tab, and assign users or groups to the application.

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Before going to the next section, go to the Sign On tab and access the Metadata URL and save the provided XML file.

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Your Okta service now trusts OVHcloud as a service provider. The next step is to ensure that the OVHcloud account trusts your Okta as an identity provider.

 

Registering Okta into the OVHcloud account and configuring the connection

To add Okta as a trusted identity provider, you need to provide the identity provider metadata in the OVHcloud Control Panel.

Once logged in, click your profile at the top right.

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Click on your name to access your profile management page.

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Open the User Management tab.

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Click the SSO connection button.

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Open the Metadata URL from Okta in an XML editor. Copy and paste the XML metadata of your Okta service into the XML metadata field. Enter groups as the Group Attribute Name. Click Confirm.

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Now you need to retrieve your Okta as identity provider, as well as default groups.

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For more information, click on the link under SSO service URL.

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The ... button allows you to update or delete the SSO, and view its details.

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Your Okta service is now considered a trusted identity provider. However, you still need to add groups to your OVHcloud account.

NOTE: If you try to connect via SSO at this point, you will probably receive a Not in valid groups error message.

That is because your OVHcloud account checks whether the authenticating user belongs to an existing group on the account.

You must then assign roles to Okta user groups at OVHcloud. Otherwise, your OVHcloud account does not know what the user is allowed to do and, by default, no rights are assigned.

From the OVHcloud Control Panel, add a group by clicking the Declare a group button and filling in the fields:

  • Group name: Group name within Okta
  • Role: Level of rights granted to this group

When finished, click Confirm.

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You can then verify that the group is added to your OVHcloud account in the "Groups" section:

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When you later log in with a user from the Intern group, your OVHcloud account will recognize that the user has the role "UNPRIVILEGED" specified by his group.

You will then be able to log out of your account and log back in with your Okta as an identity provider.

 

Connecting via SSO

On the OVHcloud login page, enter your customer code followed by /idp without a password and click the Login button.

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You are then redirected to your Okta login page. Enter the login and password for a user of your Okta, then click the Sign in button.

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You are now logged in with the same customer ID but through your Okta user.

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Go further

For more information and tutorials, please see our other IAM support guides or explore the guides for other OVHcloud products and services.

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