ForgeRock, the leading open
platform provider
of identity management solutions, today announced the preview of a new
Cloud Foundry service broker that allows externally deployed ForgeRock
solutions to protect applications and microservices running in Cloud
Foundry. Developers working on the Cloud Foundry platform can now easily
ensure a persistent identity that is portable across clouds for
people-to-service and service-to-service (API-to-API) use cases. The
service broker preview supports standards, including OAuth2, for
enabling protection of applications running on all variants of Cloud
Foundry. It is a lightweight, simple way to protect RESTful
microservices, which are becoming an increasingly popular architecture
for application development.
"We're excited to announce this significant new contribution to the OpenAM
open source project," said Lasse Andresen, Chief Technology Officer of
ForgeRock "To date, identity and access management (IAM) in the cloud
has been relegated to options baked-in to specific cloud platforms. The
promise of cloud, however, is ubiquity and persistence, and developers
need to be able to move from one cloud to another as priorities dictate.
The new service broker ensures maximum flexibility for using strong
digital identity to protect applications and microservices across the
full range of platform-as-a-service cloud architectures."
"Great to see that ForgeRock is extending its
open source-based ForgeRock Identity Platform to the
platform-as-a-service ecosystem, and becoming multi-cloud ready," said
Marco Hochstrasser, Head of Cloud Platform Development at Swisscom and
board member of the Cloud Foundry Foundation. "This service broker
project demonstrates a firm commitment to the Cloud Foundry-based
ecosystem, and will ultimately simplify the cloud journey for
developers, enterprises and endusers alike."
"As organizations increasingly adopt cloud
offerings for critical business operations from public and private
providers it becomes essential to have a persistent identity that is
portable across multiple clouds," said Mike Ellis, ForgeRock's Chief
Executive Officer. "This service broker project allows organizations to
easily extend identity context to Cloud Foundry, an open source cloud
platform as a service (PaaS) on which developers can build, deploy, run
and scale applications on public and private cloud models, a core
element of any cloud strategy."
The open source code for the service broker preview is accessible through GitHub, and ForgeRock welcomes feedback on the project. For more information, please visit the ForgeRock blog.
The service broker preview and IAM for cloud deployments will be
discussed at ForgeRock's upcoming UnSummit, taking place in San
Francisco on June 1st. More information on the ForgeRock Identity Summit Series is accessible here.