Authentication in Confluent Cloud Using OAuth/OIDC with Okta (Platformatory) | Current 2025
Source: YouTube · Confluent Developer · published Jun 9, 2025 · 31:08
The video demonstrates how to secure Confluent Cloud using OAuth/OIDC protocols with Okta as the identity provider, implementing proper authentication and authorization for different client access levels 0:52.
Key Takeaways:
• Authentication is proving who you are (like showing an ID), while authorization determines what resources you can access based on your role 1:20
• OIDC is an authentication layer built on top of OAuth, allowing applications to verify users by obtaining profile information from the identity provider 3:18
• OAuth framework enables applications to request limited access to protected resources using access tokens 4:28
• The demo shows establishing trust between Confluent Cloud and Okta, configuring applications, and setting up identity pools to group clients by permissions 7:50
• Testing reveals clients with cluster admin roles can create/delete topics, while those with operator roles can only monitor and describe them 30:02
This tutorial provides a practical implementation of OAuth/OIDC authentication for Confluent Cloud with proper secure access controls using Okta.
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[Music] [Music] Hi, good evening all. I hope you're all doing well. So before getting started, I'll give a small introduction about myself. My name is Shiva Prakashaki. I'm a data platform engineer at Platform. Um I'm uh my role involves uh setting up Kafka infrastructure both on-prem and on cloud even in air gap environments. I have around two plus years of experience in Kafka related technologies. So recently I transition to data engineering role where I design data pipelines and uh implement those pipelines. So let's get started. So in today's session we'll see how to secure a confluent cloud with OOTH OIDC protocols and we'll be using octa as an identity provider. So before getting started we'll go through some basic concepts like what is uh authentication what is authorization and wha…