Abstract

This document presents typical architectures that you can use as a reference for managing corporate identities. Two core tenets of corporate identity management are the following:

• An authoritative source for identities that is the sole system that you use to create, manage, and delete identities for your employees. The identities managed in the authoritative source system might be propagated to other systems.

• A central identity provider (IdP) that is the sole system for authentication and that provides a single sign-on experience for your employees that spans applications.

When you use Google Cloud or other Google services, you must decide which system to use as your identity provider and which system to use as your authoritative source.

Links

• https://cloud.google.com/architecture/identity/reference-architectures

Citation

Google, 2021. Google Cloud - Cloud Architecture Center - Identity and Access Management - Reference Architectures. Google.