It all started with a phone call from an institute that reached out to recruit me for its campus ambassador program. I was navigating my first year of college, figuring things out. It was all new for me, a new city, far from home, and a hostel room. I was…
Read moreMy team has officially changed its name, and it's one I've been excited about for a while.
Read moreTaylor Swift once said, "Sometimes walking out is one thing that will find you the right thing." That's probably what happened to me. During my engineering days, all I ever wanted was to be a backend engineer, write code all day, use dark mode for IDEs, and sip coffee. And…
Read more"Building an agent is only half the battle. Governing it is where we get stuck."
Read moreIf you've watched Friends, you'll know that life rarely goes according to plan. One day, you're helping a friend move a couch while yelling "Pivot!", and the next, you're wondering how you ended up there in the first place.
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Akanksha Bhasin 2 min read
Identity has become one of the most important control points in modern systems. As applications grow more distributed and AI-driven automation becomes part of everyday workflows, identity increasingly defines how secure, predictable, and trustworthy those systems are. Decisions about access, scope, and lifecycle now shape not only the user experience,…
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Sohail Pathan 4 min read
"Sometimes, all it takes is a spark of curiosity to ignite a lifelong journey." - Unknown
Read moreAs part of Okta's Secure Identity Commitment (OSIC) to lead the industry in the fight against identity attacks, we are making changes to improve our architecture related to developer organizations.
Read moreI'm Akanksha Bhasin, and I'm all about building community for developers. I come from a developer background, and for over six years, I've been building and growing communities for developers. On top of that, I've spent the last four years diving into Developer Relations. I've had the chance to work…
Read moreWe use access tokens to request data and perform actions within our software systems. The client application sends a bearer token to the resource server. The resource server checks the validity of the access token before acting upon the HTTP request. What happens if the requesting party is malicious, steals…
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Semona Igama 2 min read
Supporting developers is my modus operandi. I've been with Okta for three years, formerly as a Developer Support Engineer and now as a Developer Advocate.
Read moreKubernetes has become an unavoidable part of a software infrastructure these days. If you are an enterprise or medium/large company, chances are you are already running Kubernetes clusters for your workloads. If you are a DevOps engineer, there is a good chance you are maintaining either an on-prem Kubernetes cluster…
Read moreIn August, Okta's developer relations team invited intrepid developers to participate in the virtual Okta Identity Engine Early Access Hackathon, and challenged them to build a working app with our limited availability new customer identity and access management (CIAM) platform. A month or so after, judges convened, winners were announced,…
Read moreA Kubernetes (k8s) cluster comprises worker machines called nodes and a control plane consisting of the API server, scheduler, etcd, controller manager, and in the case of a PaaS (platform as a service), the cloud controller manager. The containers deployed to the cluster run in pods on the worker nodes.…
Read moreSince 2013 when it was released to the public, Docker has become an industry-standard tool for development teams to package applications into small executable containers. A year later, Kubernetes was released by Google to manage large amounts of containers, and provide features for high availability (HA) and auto-scaling.
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Tanay Pant 2 min read
Greetings Oktaverse! I'm Tanay 🖖
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Alisa Duncan 1 min read
"Just follow your heart and keep smiling."
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Ryan Stewart 1 min read
As many of you may know, Okta completed the acquisition of Auth0 in May of 2021. We've since been busy, working out how our products will work together to help developers provide the best experiences for their users. If you joined us for Developer Day, you saw Okta and Auth0…
Read moreAmaze us! Build something unique and wonderful with early access to our new Okta Identity Engine Limited GA release. Here's how you can get involved.
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Ali Spivak 1 min read
Yesterday, Okta announced that we have finalized the acquisition of Auth0. You are probably looking at this blog post wondering what happens next for both companies. The post you are looking for, with a lot more details and information, is on the Auth0 blog. Please read it for more details…
Read moreAs more of our critical work and personal functions go online, the risk of data and security breaches continues to increase. In 2019, there were over 1400 data breaches reported that exposed nearly 165 million records, many of which included passwords and personal information.
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Karson Kwan 7 min read
Rockstar chrome extension is a third-party, Non-Okta Application (as defined in Okta's Master Subscription Agreement). Okta is not involved in making this chrome extension available, and we have neither oversight nor input into its security features and functionality. For questions regarding this, or any other, Non-Okta Application(s) your organization uses…
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Matt Raible 2 min read
The Okta CLI is a new tool we've created here at Okta. It's designed to streamline the process of creating new Okta accounts, registering apps, and getting started. Wwwhhaaattt, you might say?! That's right, it's super awesome!
Read moreSession management in multi-node applications presents multiple challenges. When the architecture includes a load balancer, client requests might be routed to different servers each time, and the HTTP session might be lost. In this tutorial, I'll walk you through the configuration of session sharing in a multi-node Spring Boot application.
Read moreOkta is an identity platform focused on making authentication easy to build with minimal code. Our goal at Okta is to build a solution so flexible and easy to use, that you'll never have to build authentication again.
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Ivan Dwyer 5 min read
Many Okta customers who leverage Advanced Server Access to secure and automate identity across their dynamic infrastructure fleets use HashiCorp Terraform to declare and provision resources across AWS, GCP, and Azure. One customer built their own Terraform Provider as a wrapper to the Advanced Server Access API, which we recently…
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Nico Triballier 15 min read
In this tutorial, we'll configure Okta Advanced Server Access (aka 'ASA') so our DevOps team can securely access Virtual Machines (aka 'VMs') on Google Cloud Platform (aka 'GCP'). We'll also configure a service account so our Jenkins instance can connect to other VMs to run remote commands.
Read moreCongratulations, you've chosen to use Okta to solve your identity problems. Welcome to the happy sunny utopia of a managed identity solution! But wait! How do you manage your environments? Your applications all have separate production, staging, and development environments. How do you manage that in Okta without writing a…
Read moreOn September 19, 2019, we held our first Okta Developer office hours. Our goal was to host a live Q&A with developers that use Okta. Over 150 developers attended!
Read moreNot too long ago, deployments were done by hand - manually pushed to a physical server somewhere in a building your company owned. The software engineering world has come a long way since then, and we have more options than ever get our code and data live, automatically. Here are…
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Heather Downing 5 min read
Authentication for voice, specifically Amazon's Alexa, has its limitations. The initial Account Linking process Amazon provides for identification works for many scenarios, but it is only done once (signing into the skill via the Alexa mobile app or website), and all subsequent sessions with the skill are linked - no…
Read moreIf you've been a Java developer for more than 15 years, you probably remember when there were a plethora of Java web frameworks. It started with Struts and WebWork. Then Tapestry, Wicket, and JSF came along and championed the idea of component-based frameworks. Spring MVC was released in 2004 (in…
Read moreWorking with databases hosted online has become easier over recent years. The emergence of Database as a Service (DaaS) specifically makes quick integrations much easier. It is important to keep application user data separate from personally identifiable information, especially in this day and age. When using a third party auth…
Read moreReducing the time between a user clicking your application and the content being displayed is vital. Optimized images? Check! Minified CSS? Check! Minified JS? Check! But if your application is a single page app (or SPA) there is a large bundle of JavaScript that must reach the user before the…
Read moreREST APIs are often written for enterprise-level companies as a way of allowing a client-side application to access core business logic. For many companies, simply extending their existing API by adding an endpoint for Alexa integration is the best way to manage that flow. For this example, you will use…
Read moreInterested in building a secure ASP.NET MVC website that allows users to handle their own data with ease? Let's walk through creating a basic application that allows the creation, reading, updating, and deletion of data (CRUD) with Entity Framework by your users while managing them easily with Okta. For a…
Read more Heather Downing 2 min read
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David Neal 1 min read
I am so excited to announce I have joined Okta's developer relations team as a Senior Developer Advocate! My focus is on all the JavaScripts: Node.js, Vue, React, and a bazillion other things!
Read moreWe talk a lot about ASP.NET Core on this blog, but the .NET ecosystem is much much more than just Core. Microsoft is still updating and supporting .NET Framework, and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future. The same is the case with Web Forms, which even got…
Read moreTechnology moves fast these days. It can be challenging to keep up with the latest trends as well as new releases of your favorite projects. I'm here to help! Spring Boot and Angular are two of my favorite projects, so I figured I'd write y'all a guide to show you…
Read moreVirtually every Android tutorial uses Android Studio to create and develop an app. This isn't great for learning since you don't see how things work, namely
Read moreAs recently as seven short years ago, building video applications on the web was a massive pain. Remember the days of using Flash and proprietary codecs (which often required licensing)? Yuck. In the last few years, video chat technology has dramatically improved and Flash is no longer required.
Read moreProgressive Web Applications (PWAs) are the newest technology on the web dev block and they've arrived just in time to solve a growing problem. Many companies are struggling to keep isolated development teams across their organization up-to-date when new features are released. Some companies are even trying to decide if…
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Alex Dahl 4 min read
As your business grows, you'll probably reach a point where you need to grow your audience as well. Not just acquire more customers in your target segment, but expand to more segments and new types of customers. How do you adapt your product to your new audience? How do you…
Read moreWith Okta and OpenID Connect (OIDC) you can easily integrate authentication into a React Native application and never have to build it yourself again. OIDC allows you to authenticate directly against the Okta API, and this article shows you how to do just that in a React Native application. Today…
Read moreI got into Bitcoin back in 2011. Since then, I've been a fan of cryptocurrencies and have always had an interest in them. I've also built several Bitcoin projects over the years (an information website, an ecommerce site, and several others) to help promote the usage of the cryptocurrency (while…
Read moreCryptocurrencies are all the rage. Over the last year, the value of Bitcoin alone has risen 1,603%, driving more and more people to wonder if they're missing out on the "next big thing." Because of the massive influx of money into cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, Ethereum, Monero, and Ripple — blockchain…
Read moreReact has been getting a lot of positive press in the last couple years, making it an appealing frontend option for Java developers! Once you learn how it works, it makes a lot of sense and can be fun to develop with. Not only that, but it's wicked fast! If…
Read moreTechnology moves fast these days. It can be challenging to keep up with the latest trends as well as new releases of your favorite projects. I'm here to help! Spring Boot and Angular are two of my favorite projects, so I figured I'd write y'all a guide to show you…
Read moreHello Okta Blogosphere! Another Stormpath transplant here! As you know, the Okta developer experience team has been working hard to make it easier for YOU to work hard... on integrating your applications with Okta. We recently launched an update to our Developer Console, an all-new Okta experience that is catered…
Read moreI love my job as a developer advocate at Okta. I get to learn a lot, write interesting blog posts and create example apps with cool technologies like Kotlin, TypeScript, Spring Boot, and Angular, which I'm about to demo. When it comes to writing Hello World apps with authentication, I…
Read moreWith Okta and OpenID Connect (OIDC) you can easily integrate authentication into an Ionic application, and never have to build it yourself again. OIDC allows you to authenticate directly against the Okta API, and this article shows you how to do just that in an Ionic application. I'll demo how…
Read more Matt Raible 7 min read
Okta is investing heavily into making developers successful by creating great developer experiences through updated SDKs and integrations as well as new pricing and packaging. These updates are intended to give developers everything they need to build modern, secure applications. But equally important is how Okta speaks to developers. How…
Read more Matt Raible 18 min read
There's a lot of confusion around what OAuth actually is.
Read moreAngular (formerly called Angular 2.0) is quickly becoming one of the most powerful ways to build a modern single-page app. A core strength is Angular's focus on building reusable components, which help you decouple the various concerns in your application. Take authentication, for example: it can be painful to build,…
Read moreReact has quickly become one of the most favored front-end web frameworks, and is second only to plain old HTML5, according to JAXenter. So it's no surprise that developers are learning it, and employers are asking for it.
Read moreAngularJS reigned as king of JavaScript MVC frameworks for several years. However, when the Angular team announced they would not provide backwards compatibility for their next version, there was a bit of a stir in its community, giving opportunities for frameworks like React and Vue.js to flourish. Fast forward a…
Read moreIf you're building a Spring Boot application, you'll eventually need to add user authentication. You can do this with OAuth 2.0 (henceforth: OAuth). OAuth is a standard that applications can use to provide client applications with "secure delegated access". It works over HTTP and authorizes devices, APIs, servers, and applications…
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