Developing a Federated Authentication Module

[Trustelem]

Hello,

We are currently looking at developing a SAML or OAuth based module to authenticate users against a third-party IdP.

After looking through the documentation on Confluence, I saw that this is possible for standard Confluence (and there is some plugins already available for this) but not for the cloud version.

Except this plugin do SSO with SAML on Cloud :
https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/Global-SSO-V.1.0#cloud

So I'm asking, what did they used to do this ? Is there any documentation I missed ? I saw in another post that SAML support isn't on the roadmap, any update on this ?

[wadey · Accepted solution]

Hi folks, Volodymyr's answer is guided by an unfortunate bug in Atlassian Marketplace that we fixed just recently, a few days ago IIRC. That plugin is not pre-installed in any cloud instances. 

Atlassian is also not accepting any new pre-installed plugins from third parties, and has no plans to do so in the future. 

I speculate that Global SSO is just another SSO that fronts web authentication however I've not used it myself. You could and should contact the vendor for details of how it works. 

Hope that helps, -nick wade
Head of Ecosystem, Marketplace 

[Volodymyr Krupach]

Thank you Nick!

[wadey]

Hey, no problems and sorry for the bug giving you a bum steer, mate.

[Volodymyr Krupach]

@Nick Wade, one more question/inaccuracy in docs. In the Creating the Marketplace listing docs (https://developer.atlassian.com/static/connect/docs/1.1.33/developing/cloud-installation.html#listing) I see: "Payment model: Choose only Free or Paid via Atlassian. Atlassian Connect add-ons can't be listed as paid via vendor.". Although Global SSO cloud version is marked "This add-on is sold by a third-party vendor.". Could you please check it.

[Volodymyr Krupach]

Hi Trustelem,

When you open the addon page and go to the Pricing Overview -> Cloud tab you will see "This add-on is pre-installed on your Cloud instance". So they just used standard confluence Java API.

And here pop-ups question to Atlassian: How to make an addon preinstalled on a cloud instance?