Authentication

OpenFaaS Cloud Auth¶

OpenFaaS Cloud offers authentication and authorization to the OpenFaaS Cloud Dashboard through OAuth2 / OIDC.

Two providers are supported:

GitHub.com
GitLab self-hosted

Conceptual diagram¶

OpenFaaS Authentication with OAuth2 / OIDC

Control-plane¶

The control-plane for OpenFaaS Cloud is federated to the source-control management system through the use of webhooks, validated with a symmetric secret. Users do not have access to the OpenFaaS REST API other than through causing events to trigger through Git.