AuthN and AuthZ

AuthN and AuthZ are related concepts but with different goals. AuthN is an abbreviation of authentication and is related to the process to confirm who a user is and validate their credentials to grant access to the platform. In this process, we deal with identity providers (IdPs) on OpenShift to configure the authentication provider that will check the user credentials, which we will cover shortly.

In turn, AuthZ stands for authorization and is directly linked to giving the user only what they really should have access to, after the authentication process.

These two concepts are seen as confusing or similar from the point of view of just logging in to OpenShift. To clarify the concepts, we will now discuss the different objects and processes related to authentication and authorization.

Authentication

OpenShift works with the following set of objects as part of the authentication process:

These are the objects used in OpenShift...