Kong Identity Documentation

Kong Identity
Unified authentication platform within Kong Konnect.
Principals and directories
Learn how Kong Identity principals and directories represent authenticating entities and centralize identity, credentials, and metadata across Kong Gateway, Event Gateway, and Dev Portal.
Kong Identity authorization servers, claims, scopes, and clients
Kong Identity enables you to use Konnect to generate, authenticate and authorize API access. Kong Identity implements the OAuth2.0 standard with OpenID Connect for authentication and authorization.

Set up Kong Event Gateway with Kong Identity OAuth
Learn how to secure Kafka traffic in Event Gateway with Kong Identity.
Configure the OIDC plugin with Kong Identity
Learn how to configure Kong Identity with OIDC.
Configure the OAuth 2.0 Introspection plugin with Kong Identity
Learn how to configure Kong Identity with OAuth 2.0 Introspection.
Configure the Upstream OAuth plugin with Kong Identity
Learn how to configure Kong Identity with Upstream OAuth.
Automatically create Dev Portal applications in Kong Identity with Dynamic Client Registration
Learn how to configure Dynamic Client Registration to automatically create Dev Portal applications in Kong Identity.
Authenticate Principals with the Key Authentication plugin
Use the Key Authentication plugin to allow Principals to authenticate with an API key.
Authenticate Principals with basic authentication
Use the Basic Authentication plugin to allow Principals to authenticate with a username and password.
Authenticate OAuth clients with a Kong Identity authorization server
Use the OpenID Connect plugin to map authenticated OAuth clients to Kong Identity principals.