Episode 166 - GluuFederation/identerati-office-hours GitHub Wiki
Title: Introducing the Zitadel Identity Platform
- Host: Mike Schwartz, Founder/CEO Gluu
- Guest: Florian Forster, CEO & Co-Founder at Zitadel
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Description
Founded in Switzerland by identity and infrastructure veterans, Zitadel emerged from a simple observation: enterprise identity management had become a barrier to innovation rather than an enabler. Available as both a self-hosted, open source distribution and a cloud hosted platform, Zitadel is the new kid on the open source block, offering alternatives to Keycloak, Ory and Gluu. Join this episode to explore some of the design goals and priorities for the product and what kinds of problems Zitadel is good at solving.
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Takeaways
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⚡ Zitadel founders saw no open source multi-tenant platform... like open source Okta. Keycloak has "Realms", but it's not scalable and hard to customize. Janssen Project (Gluu) and Ory are single tenant. So they wrote one!
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⚡ The project was founded in 2021. Zitadel offers both hosted and self-hosted products, with a cloud native approach to deployment and customizations.
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⚡ Tenant key management is light--keys are stored in the database. Florian says they don't want to get locked into cloud specific key management features right now.
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⚡ Florian asserts that despite advances in passkeys, UX for human authentication is not a solved problem. Passwords and other low-tech authenticators are here to stay for the time being...