IDCS (Identity Cloud Service) is Oracle's next-gen Identity solution built in the cloud for the cloud. It is fully standards-compliant and implements various standards like SAML (Security Assertion Markup Language), OAuth, OIDC (OpenID Connect), etc. Those standards help customers integrate with other products implementing that same standard. One use case that I came across, a few times recently, is integrating Okta as Identity Provider to IDCS using SAML.

SAML, as most of you would already know, is a standard for logging users into applications based on their sessions in another context (Single Sign-On system). This single sign-on (SSO) login standard has significant advantages over logging in using a username/password or sharing/syncing username/password across other Single Sign-On systems.

Oracle Identity Cloud Service provides an innovative, fully integrated service that delivers all the core identity and access management capabilities through a multi-tenant Cloud platform. The integration with Okta provides user lifecycle management, including provisioning and de-provisioning from Okta to IDCS. The integration also enables Single Sign-On between Okta and IDCS.

By setting up a federation between OKTA and Oracle Identity Cloud Service, we enable user’s access to applications in Oracle Identity Cloud Service using user credentials that are authenticated by OKTA.

Oracle Identity Cloud Service provides integration with Identity Providers(IDPs) which support the SAML protocol.

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Pre-requisites to enable federation

• Oracle Identity Cloud Service access to manage IdPs (Identity Domain Administrator or Security Administrator).

• Okta instance.

• Users synchronized between an Okta domain and Oracle Identity Cloud Service