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Pathfinder SSO

Office of the Chief Information Officer

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Pathfinder Single Sign On (SSO) is a login service that connects your users to your applications.

Based on the Red Hat Single Sign On Product (Redhat SSO and Open Source Keycloak), it provides an industry standard Open ID Connect (OIDC) and enterprise-policy compliant means of implementing authentication within applications that are also simple for development teams to provision and utilize.

Why should I use this

Easy to use

SSO provides two types of services, Standard and Custom. Both options provide a login service that connects your users to your applications.

  • Your users can login with government identity providers, such as IDIR and BCeID
  • We provide you with instant access to your development and test environments
  • We’re an enterprise service. You can count on us for business continuity and our service level target is 99.95%

Identity management

Add authentication and authorization to applications and secure services with minimum fuss.

Our partners

We provide our service with the support of our identity provider partners. An “Identity Provider” is the holder of the identity that is used to log-in with. Learn more about our partners and relevant identity provider information.

The Pathfinder SSO service is hosted on the Private Cloud Openshift platform in the BC Government data centres in Kamloops and Calgary.

About this component

Price

Free

Service level support

  • Our service is available 24/7, except during planned outages within the Kamloops and Calgary data centres. Planned outages are communicated through RocketChat
  • Our regular business hours are weekdays from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm Pacific Time, excluding statutory holidays. Client provisioning questions and requests will be reviewed and handled during normal business hours. After hours support is provided by the Pathfinder SSO team and is only available for service outages and other incidents that impact the service
  • To learn more about our service uptime monitoring, visit our uptime wiki page on GitHub and subscribe to our newsletter to receive important updates on the service and any outages

Requirements and restrictions

This SSO service is offered to BC Government teams who are building cloud native web or mobile applications. Teams wishing to use this service should first connect with the Pathfinder SSO Team to discuss their needs and ensure alignment prior to making an SSO implementation request.

Getting started

The service is offered to BC Government teams who are building:

  • Cloud native web applications
  • Mobile applications (iOS and Android)
  • Applications hosted on the BCGov Private Cloud Platform as a Service (OpenShift)

https://bcgov.github.io/sso-requests

Support

You can find simple procedures and guides, as well as answers to their questions, in a dedicated BC government support community:

Identity as a concept can get complicated. We also recommend reviewing our key terms and concepts when you’re getting started.