> Interesting that they are choosing to provide an integrated solution including user management and OAuth IdP ( https://github.com/kanidm/kanidm/pull/485 ) rather than plug into existing open source or even commercial offerings.
I can understand their focus of being completely open and self-contained. At work we use Azure AD and I've been looking at an IDP to use personally. I actually do have access to a personal AAD instance. But I don't want to give commercial parties access or data about my stuff.
Existing open source offerings would be ok but then you have a codebase to consider that you don't manage and it could make the product heavier. The only thing I'd 'outsource' would be algorithm stuff in libraries like crypto.
I'm looking for something lightweight that is stand-alone and this looks really interesting. I'll definitely try it out.
Just wanted to point out that there is definitely a niche for it :)
> Just wanted to point out that there is definitely a niche for it :)
Thanks for the info! I get that controlling the whole stack can make sense (great post about this here: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2001/10/14/in-defense-of-not-... ) but just seems like yet another user management system might not be the best use of resources. But I'm not entirely in that world (of deploying ssh keys to servers, for example) so appreciate the perspective.
I can understand their focus of being completely open and self-contained. At work we use Azure AD and I've been looking at an IDP to use personally. I actually do have access to a personal AAD instance. But I don't want to give commercial parties access or data about my stuff.
Existing open source offerings would be ok but then you have a codebase to consider that you don't manage and it could make the product heavier. The only thing I'd 'outsource' would be algorithm stuff in libraries like crypto.
I'm looking for something lightweight that is stand-alone and this looks really interesting. I'll definitely try it out.
Just wanted to point out that there is definitely a niche for it :)