Advanced Security Features

Methods to setup authorization within your Controller & Registry.
Advanced security features are currently only available for our Enterprise Tier licenses.
You must have at least one node with a Enterprise or higher license joined to the Controller for these features to work.
Authentication can be enabled in your Controller configuration.

There are three different authentication methods available:

MethodDetails
Token AuthenticationToken based auth tokens & Root token access to Anka Controller dashboard (and API).
Certificate AuthenticationCertificate based access to the Controller and Registry. API requests, Node joining, and anka registry commands all require a valid certificate.
OpenId (SSO) AuthenticationSimilar to Certificate authentication, but using your existing OpenID certified user directory.

Configuring Token Authentication

  • Protect your Controller UI and API with a Root Token.
  • Create User API Keys and assign specific permissions to them for protecting the API.

Certificate Authentication

How to set up certificate based authentication.

Configuring OpenID (SSO) based authentication

How to set up OpenID based authentication for your Anka Build Cloud Controller & Registry