Okta Privileged Access Workloads lets CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure automation, cloud workloads, scripts, and AI agents authenticate using platform-signed OIDC tokens or managed API keys. This article explains workload connections, roles, policies, Principal SSH access, and secret retrieval, with a GitHub Actions lab demonstrating both SSH and secret reveal. It also covers static JWKS support for JWT workload connections.
Comprehensive guide to deploying Okta’s new consolidated On-Prem SCIM Agent and Generic Database Connector using Docker Compose. Covers architecture, setup, configuration, stored procedures, entitlement management, and testing workflows for bridging Okta with on-premises databases.
Following my Blueprint Alliance article, this guide turns the role of an Agent Gateway into a concrete configuration example. Connect Dust to MCP servers through Okta, configure user access and Static OAuth, select the tools to expose, and trace requests back to both the agent and its user.
How Okta Privileged Access database integrations discover privileged database accounts, vault and rotate their credentials, and expose checkout through policies with MFA or approvals. The guide explains the Early Access architecture, required gateway role, account rules, and a ready-to-run Docker lab with MySQL, DBGate, and an Infrastructure Orchestrator gateway.
I published a small set of community Docker images for Okta Privileged Access ScaleFT packages: one with the sft client for automation and CI/CD jobs, and one with the gateway package for lab experiments. They are built from Debian slim, tagged with the package version, and published on GitHub Container Registry.
Opaflix is an open-source tool to browse and replay Okta Privileged Access (OPA) SSH and RDP session recordings from AWS S3. Supports single-tenant and multi-tenant deployments, advanced search, infrastructure graph, and OIDC Authentication.
A comprehensive guide to modernizing IBM i (AS/400) security by integrating Okta. This post covers MFA for terminal access using Precisely and explores two options for Lifecycle Management (LCM): the Okta OPP agent with custom scripts and the Aquera SCIM gateway.
How to integrate GLPI 11, an open-source IT service management platform, with Okta for SSO. It covers running a GLPI test environment via Docker, LDAP and SAML configuration walkthroughs, and notes on OAuth/OIDC with commercial plugins. The guide highlights user import, authentication options, demo readiness, and security limitations for non-production use.
Introduction # This guide provides a step-by-step walkthrough for deploying the OpenLDAP directory service, and integrate it with Okta, using Docker and Docker Compose.
