# Okta

Okta is a popular identity provider used by businesses of all sizes. Integrating Pomerium with Okta allows you to use the identity Okta provides to apply context-driven policies from Pomerium to your infrastructure.

This page covers configuring Okta to communicate with Pomerium as an IdP. It assumes you have already installed Pomerium before you begin.

WARNING

While we do our best to keep our documentation up to date, changes to third-party systems are outside our control. Refer to Create an Okta app Integration (opens new window) from Okta's developer docs as needed, or let us know (opens new window) if we need to re-visit this page.

# Create OpenID Connect Application

Log in to your Okta account (opens new window) From the left-hand menu, Select Applications → Applications on the top menu.
Click the Create App Integration button. Select OIDC as the sign-in method. and Web Application as the application type:

Click Next to continue.

Provide the following information for your application settings:

Field	Description
Name	The name of your application.
Grant type allowed	You must enable Refresh Token.
Base URIs	Optional: The domain(s) of your application.
Sign-in redirect URIs	Redirect URL (e.g.`https://${authenticate_service_url}/oauth2/callback`).
Controlled Access	The user groups that can sign in to this application. See Group ID (opens new window) for more information.

Okta Create Application Settings

Click Save to proceed. You'll be taken to the General tab of your app.

From the General tab, scroll down to the Client Credentials section. This section contains the Client ID and Client Secret. Temporarily save these values to apply to the Pomerium configuration.

# Create Service account

Next, we'll create API token so that Pomerium can retrieve and establish group membership.

From the main menu, navigate to Security → API. Select the Tokens tab, and click the Create Token button. Name the token, then save the value to apply to our Pomerium configuration:
The API token will be provided as the value of the idp_service_account key, formatted as a base64-encoded JSON document::
```
{
  "api_key": "XXXXXXXXXX"
}
```
You can save the object as a temporary file to encode:
```
cat tmp.json | base64 -w 0
```

# Configure Pomerium

Finally, configure Pomerium with the identity provider settings retrieved in the previous steps. Your environmental variables (opens new window) should look something like this.

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