Azure Active Directory

This guide provides a step-by-step walkthrough to configure Azure Active Directory (AD) as an external identity provider for Akamas users.

Ensure you have an Azure account with the Application.ReadWrite.All permission to create app registrations in your Azure AD tenant.

Configure the App registration

To integrate Akamas with your Azure AD, you’ll need a dedicated App registration in your Azure organization. You can either use an existing registration or create a new one.

• Using an Existing Registration: Skip to Get the client configuration.

• Creating a New Registration: Follow the instructions below.

​​Multiple Akamas instances can share a single app registration, meaning any AD user added to the registration can access all associated Akamas instances. To manage access with finer granularity, create a unique app registration for each Akamas instance.

Creating a new App registration

• In your Azure portal, navigate to App registrations and select New registration.

• Provide:

  • A name for the application.

  • The account type that best suits your use case.

• Complete the process by clicking Register.

Get the client configuration

On the Overview page of your app registration, make note of the following values:

• Application (client) ID

• OpenID Connect metadata document (found in the "Endpoints" side panel)

Then, in the Certificates & secrets section, create a new Client secret and note its value. With these values ready, proceed to configure the provider in the Keycloak console.

Create the Identity provider in Keycloak

In the Keycloak admin console, access the Identity Providers section within the Akamas realm (see the Configure an external identity provider page for more details).

• Select OpenID Connect v1.0 to start creating the new provider.

• Provide:

  • Alias (e.g., "microsoft") and optional Display name (e.g., "Microsoft") for the login page.

• In the OpenID Connect settings section, populate the following fields:

  • Discovery endpoint: Enter the URL of the OpenID Connect metadata document. A green box indicates successful validation.

  • Client ID: Enter the Application (client) ID.

  • Client Secret: Enter the generated client secret.

Click Add to complete the configuration. Copy the Redirect URI from the details page of the new provider.

Complete the app registration in Azure

Return to the Azure portal and open the app registration. In the Authentication section, add the Web platform (if not already present).

Add the Redirect URI from the Keycloak console to the list of redirect URIs.

Akamas is now configured to delegate user login to Azure AD.

If the hostname of the Akamas installation changes, update the Redirect URI in the app registration to avoid login errors such as:

The redirect URI 'https://...' specified in the request does not match the redirect URIS configured for the application '...'.

Configure the default Akamas roles

To automatically assign default roles to users, set up mappers in Keycloak so users can access the default workspace with read and write permissions upon first login.

In Keycloak, go to the provider's details page and navigate to Mappers:

Add the following configurations:

User role

• Name: User role

• Mapper type: Hardcoded role

• Role: USER

User Role map

Default Workspace Read

• Name: Default Workspace Read

• Mapper type: Hardcoded role

• Role: WS_ac8481d3-d031-4b6a-8ae9-c7b366f027e8_R

Default Workspace Write

• Name: Default Workspace Write

• Mapper type: Hardcoded role

• Role: WS_ac8481d3-d031-4b6a-8ae9-c7b366f027e8_W

Test the integration

Visit the Akamas installation's login page to verify that the new authentication method is displayed and working as expected.