SAML Auth

SAML support for NxCloud is an addon for Nx Enterprise contracts and requires an unlock key. Please get in touch if you are interested.

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• Azure AD Config
• Okta Config

Azure Active Directory Set-up

1. Create a new enterprise app

   

   

2. Choose “Create your own”:

   

3. Give it a name

   

4. Assign your users and/or groups to it:

   

5. Then set-up SSO

   

6. And choose SAML:

   

7. Add these configuration options

   1. Configure the Identifier exactly as nx-private-cloud
   2. For the Reply URL, it should point to your Private Cloud instance URL. Make sure it ends with /auth/saml/callback

   

8. Scroll down and manage claims:

   

9. The first row should be the email claim, click to Edit it:

   

10. Configure it as per below

    1. “Namespace” needs to be blank
    2. “Name:” needs to be “email”
    3. See screenshot below. This is an important step, because NxCloud will expect the “email” property on each profile that logs in.

    

11. Download the certificate in Base64:

    

12. Extract the downloaded certificate value as a one-line string:

    1. awk 'NF {sub(/\r/, ""); printf "%s\\n",$0;}' azure_cert_file.cer
    2. We’ll use this in a bit to initialize an environment variable

13. Copy the Login URL:

    

14. Then add these two env vars to your NxCloud cluster secrets (see Helm config below):

    1. SAML_CERT=<your-cert-string-from-above>
    2. SAML_ENTRY_POINT=<your-login-url-from-above>

Okta Set-up

1. Create a new Okta App Integration:

   

   

2. Give it a name:

   

3. On the Next page, configure it as below:

   1. The Single Sign On URL needs to point to your NxCloud instance URL and ends with /auth/saml/callback
   2. The Audience should be nx-private-cloud

   

4. Scroll down to attribute statements and configure them as per below:

   

5. Click “Next”, and select the first option on the next screen.

6. Go to the assignments tab and assign the users that can login to the NxCloud WebApp:

   1. Note: This just gives them permission to use the NxCloud web app with their own workspace. Users will still need to be invited manually through the web app to your main workspace.

   

7. Then in the Sign-On tab scroll down:

   

8. Scroll down and from the list of certificates, download the one with the “Active” status:

   

9. Extract the downloaded certificate value as a one-line string:

   1. awk 'NF {sub(/\r/, ""); printf "%s\\n",$0;}' okta.cert
   2. We will use this in a bit to initialize and environment variable

10. Then view the ldP metadata:

    

11. Then find the row similar to the below, and copy the highlighted URL (see screenshot as well):

    1. <md:SingleSignOnService Binding="urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:bindings:HTTP-POST" Location="https://trial-xxxxx.okta.com/app/trial-xxxxx_nxcloudtest_1/xxxxxxxxx/sso/saml" />

    

12. Then add these two env vars to your secrets (see Helm config below):

    1. SAML_CERT=<your-cert-string-from-above>
    2. SAML_ENTRY_POINT=<your-login-url-from-above>

Helm config

If you are using Helm to deploy NxCloud you will need to configure the below two values, as well as make the SAML_CERT and SAML_ENTRY_POINT env vars as secrets: