This guide walks through the deployment of ZITADEL within a Cloud Container Engine (CCE) Kubernetes cluster on Open Telekom Cloud. It covers the necessary configuration steps, from preparing the environment to running ZITADEL as a production-ready identity management service within your Kubernetes workload.
ZITADEL is an identity and access management platform designed for cloud-native environments. It implements open standards like OAuth2 and OpenID Connect to handle authentication and authorization processes in distributed applications. With a multi-tenant architecture, it supports centralized user identity management while accommodating various scenarios such as single sign-on and federated authentication. Its design facilitates integration with a wide range of web services and applications without imposing proprietary restrictions.
This guide outlines the steps required to integrate ZITADEL with the Identity and Access Management (IAM) of Open Telekom Cloud using the SAML 2.0 standard. The objective is to configure ZITADEL as a trusted external Identity Provider (IdP), enabling federated login for OTC users and services. This setup allows your ZITADEL-managed identities to authenticate against Open Telekom Cloud resources, forming a bridge between your custom IAM solution and the native authentication infrastructure of Open Telekom Cloud.