From our local LDAP authentication, we move on to three examples that all use the OAuth 2 authentication standard. It is beyond the scope of this book to go into detail about the OAuth 2 standard, but suffice to say it represents one of the most popular industry standards for application authentication. In order to use OAuth 2 to provide Grafana authentication, rather than running our own lookup service, we will leverage external providers. We will look at three different popular services, each providing similar setup techniques but serving slightly different audiences:
- We'll first look at Grafana authentication via GitHub, a common site for organizations working in the software space.
- Next, we'll look at authentication via Google, a provider common with many enterprises that depend on Google for office applications, such as Gmail and the G Suite of tools.
- Finally, we'll look at authentication with...
