Setting up SSO and Federated Authentication

Step-by-step guide to how to setup federated authentication.

Perquisites: 

• The user must have the admin rights

• User should have same username in Yotascale as it is configured in the identity provider to verify the authentication flow

Description:

Currently Yotascale provides support for the following types of authentication:

• Google Auth

• SAML

• Okta OpenID

Limitations:

• Google Auth can be used alongside any ONE of the other auth providers.

Steps to complete:

Yotascale:

1. Login to Yotascale with a user account that has Admin Role access

2. Go to the Settings Menu

3. Under Users and Permissions select Manage Auth Providers

4. Select "+ New Provider"

5. Select the auth provider from drop-down.

6. Fill up the fields according to the selected auth provider and press "Create New Auth" button

7. For SAML and Okta openid, user need to first verify the auth provider

8. After verifying you can assign new auth provider to both existing and new users in the User List tab.