Centralized Authentication

Kind: pattern

Layer: Execution Core

Record: architecture:centralized-authentication

Severity: recommended

Scope: identity, system

Canonical: Ontology

A design pattern that verifies identity once, at a shared identity provider, and passes the result to each service.

Listed in Architecture principles, after Centralized Configuration and before Centralized Logging.

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