Implement Introspection Flow With Kong Konnect and Okta
Channel: OktaDev
Date: 11/06/2021

In our third Kong and Okta tutorial, we go through the introspection flow implementation. Learn more about Konnect and start a free trial: https://bit.ly/3vDuUBz

00:00 Introduction
00:34 Introspection Flow Overview
01:17 Set Up the Okta App
01:31 Apply OIDC
02:29 Test with Insomnia

The introspection flow is part of the token validation process. Kong Gateway evaluates the injected token at the request processing time to see if it's still valid to the upstream services. The evaluation hits a specific Okta endpoint, passing the received token. Based on the response provided by Okta, Kong Gateway accepts or rejects the request.

Read the full tutorial blog post: https://bit.ly/3iyao1J

Contact us if you have any questions as you’re getting set up: https://support.konghq.com/support/s/

Once you’ve set up Konnect and Okta, you may find these other tutorials helpful:

• Automating Your Developer Pipeline With APIOps (DevOps + GitOps): https://bit.ly/3yPEsMa
• Service Design Guidelines Part 2: API Versioning: https://bit.ly/3pH0jB6
• “Gateway Mode” in Kuma and Kong Mesh: https://bit.ly/3ixLeQQ

#Okta #OIDC #API #OpenIDConnect #Konnect #APIsecurity #Introspection
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