November 2017
Beginner to intermediate
306 pages
7h 43m
English
While not part of the original 12 principles, authentication and authorization describes the requirement for applications to be secure in order to be cloud-native. Before we delve further, let us define authentication and authorization. Authentication is the act of knowing who you are, that is, your login credentials. Authorization is the process of rules that determine what you are allowed or not allowed to act on for a target resource, that is, the permissions. In knowing this, every API endpoints should be secured with role-based access control (RBAC). Every incoming request should be authenticated and, have associated, authorization that determines whether or not the incoming request has permission to ...
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