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Integrate with OVHcloud

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What is OVHcloud​

OVHcloud is a French cloud provider. They provide public and private cloud products, shared hosting, and dedicated servers in 140 countries.

-- https://www.ovhcloud.com

Preparation​

The following placeholders are used in this guide:

  • authentik.company is the FQDN of the authentik installation.

authentik configuration​

To support the integration of OVHcloud with authentik, you need to create an application/provider pair in authentik.

Create an application and provider in authentik​

  1. Log in to authentik as an administrator, and open the authentik Admin interface.

  2. Navigate to Applications > Applications and click Create with Provider to create an application and provider pair. (Alternatively, you can first create a provider separately, then create the application and connect it with the provider.)

    • Application: Provide a descriptive name, an optional group for the type of application, the policy engine mode, and optional UI settings.

    • Choose a Provider type: Select SAML Provider as the provider type.

    • Configure the Provider: Provide a name (or accept the auto-provided name), the authorization flow to use for this provider, and the following required configurations:

      • Set the ACS URL to:
        • https://www.ovhcloud.com/eu/auth/saml/acs for EU region.
        • https://www.ovhcloud.com/ca/auth/saml/acs for CA region.
        • https://us.ovhcloud.com/auth/ for US region.
      • Set the Service Provider Binding to Post.
      • Under Advanced protocol settings, set an available signing certificate.

    • Configure Bindings (optional): You can create a binding (policy, group, or user) to manage the listing and access to applications on a user's My applications page.

  3. Click Submit to save the new application and provider.

Download metadata file​

  1. Log in to authentik as an administrator, and open the authentik Admin interface.
  2. Navigate to Applications > Providers and click on the name of the provider that you created in the previous section.
  3. Under Related objects > Metadata, click on Download. This downloaded file is your SAML Metadata file and it will be required in the next section.

OVHcloud Configuration​

  1. Log in to the OVHcloud Control Panel.
  2. Click your name in the top right corner, and in the sidebar that appears, click your name again.
  3. Select Identity and Access Management (IAM) from the left-hand menu.
  4. Click the Identities tab to access local users management and switch to the SSO tab.
  5. Click on the SSO Connection button.
    • If you want to keep local OVH users, tick the Keep active OVHcloud users box.
    • Open the File you downloaded in Download metadata file. Copy the content and paste it into the XML-Metadata field.
  6. Close the window by clicking Confirm.

Configuration verification​

To verify that authentik is properly integrated with OVHcloud, first log out of your account. On the OVHcloud login page, enter your OVH Customer ID/NIC handle followed by /idp (e.g., xx1111-ovh/idp), leave the password field blank, and click Login.

You’ll be redirected to your authentik instance to complete authentication. Once successful, you’ll be logged in to OVHcloud.

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