What are the steps to connect an identity provider?

You can connect an identity provider and configure single sign-on for your portal-only customers (Jira Service Management) when you subscribe to Atlassian Guard Standard or Atlassian Government Cloud. Read more about connecting an identity provider to customers.

Who can do this?
Role: Organization admin
Atlassian Cloud: Atlassian Guard Standard
Atlassian Government Cloud: Available

Here are the steps you need to do to set up and connect an identity provider for users in your organization:

When you do this step:

Then you can:

Useful info

Name an identity provider directory in your Atlassian organization and choose the identity provider

Connect to set up single sign-on and/or user provisioning

To configure multiple identity providers for a single organization, you will need an Atlassian Enterprise plan. Otherwise, a single IDP applies to the entire organization.

Set up provisioning and sync users from the identity provider to your Atlassian organization

Automatically provision users from 
your identity provider

If you intend to use advanced SAML SSO features, such as syncing multiple domains and integrating multiple IDPs, you will need an Atlassian Enterprise plan.

Set up user authentication from the identity provider to your Atlassian organization

Make it easy 
for users to log in from your 
identity provider

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Link domains to the identity provider directory in your Atlassian organization

Automatically associate the domain’s user accounts to the directory

If you need to configure separate SSO connections with different IDPs, create a separate Atlassian organization for each IDP you wish to connect. Each organization can link independently to its own IDP.

 

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