Introducing the terminology and background

To begin with, I want to cover some terminologies and some background that are necessary for identity management with Microsoft Azure Stack Hub. You might have already seen some of these terms used in the first three chapters of the book, and you will continue to see them throughout the rest of this book.

Directory tenants

Directory tenants are organizations and are the main container within Azure Stack Hub for information on users, applications, and service principals.

Users

Users or identities are the people within the organization who are going to be using the applications and services from Azure Stack Hub. They are standard accounts that authenticate individuals with a username and password. The way users within Azure Stack Hub are created and managed depends on the identity provider that has been chosen, either AAD or ADFS. However, we will discuss this in more detail later in the chapter.

Applications

Applications...