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Integrate with OVHcloud

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What is OVHcloud?​

OVHcloud is a cloud provider that offers public and private cloud services, web hosting, dedicated servers, and domain services.

-- https://www.ovhcloud.com

Preparation​

The following placeholders are used in this guide:

  • authentik.company is the FQDN of the authentik installation.
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This documentation lists only the settings that you need to change from their default values. Be aware that any changes other than those explicitly mentioned in this guide could cause issues accessing your application.

authentik configuration​

To support the integration of OVHcloud with authentik, you need to create a SAML property mapping, an application/provider pair, and application entitlements for the OVHcloud user groups that users should receive.

Create a group property mapping​

  1. Log in to authentik as an administrator and open the authentik Admin interface.
  2. Navigate to Customization > Property Mappings and click Create.
  3. Select SAML Provider Property Mapping as the type and click Next.
  4. Configure the property mapping:
    • Name: provide a descriptive name, such as OVHcloud groups.
    • SAML Attribute Name: set the value for your OVHcloud region:
      • EU and CA: Group
      • US: groups
    • Expression: 
      return [
          entitlement.name
          for entitlement in request.user.app_entitlements(provider.application)
      ]
  5. Click Finish.

Create an application and provider​

SAML provider changes in authentik 2026.5

authentik 2026.5 introduces changes to how the SAML provider behaves. Specifically, the provider now automatically sets the Issuer value to: https://authentik.company/application/saml/<application_slug>/metadata/

Older versions of authentik set this value to authentik by default. If you're running an older version, please set Issuer to https://authentik.company/application/saml/<application_slug>/metadata/, where <application_slug> is the slug that you selected for the application.

  1. Log in to authentik as an administrator and open the authentik Admin interface.

  2. Navigate to Applications > Applications and click New Application to open the application wizard.

    • Application: provide a descriptive name, an optional group for the type of application, the policy engine mode, and optional UI settings.

    • Choose a Provider type: select SAML Provider as the provider type.

    • Configure the Provider: provide a name (or accept the auto-provided name), the authorization flow to use for this provider, and the following required configurations:

      • Set ACS URL to the value for your OVHcloud region:
        • EU: https://www.ovhcloud.com/eu/auth/saml/acs
        • CA: https://www.ovhcloud.com/ca/auth/saml/acs
        • US: https://us.ovhcloud.com/auth/
      • Set Audience to the value for your OVHcloud region:
        • EU: https://www.ovhcloud.com/eu/auth/
        • CA: https://www.ovhcloud.com/ca/auth/
        • US: https://us.ovhcloud.com/auth/
      • Under Advanced protocol settings:
        • Set an available Signing Keypair.
        • Under Property mappings, add the OVHcloud groups mapping and remove authentik default SAML Mapping: Groups.

    • Configure Bindings (optional): you can create a binding (policy, group, or user) to manage the listing and access to applications on a user's Application Dashboard page.

  3. Click Submit to save the new application and provider.

Download metadata file​

  1. Log in to authentik as an administrator and open the authentik Admin interface.
  2. Navigate to Applications > Providers and click on the name of the provider that you created in the previous section.
  3. Under Related objects > Metadata, click Download. This downloaded file is your SAML metadata file and is required in the next section.

Create application entitlements​

Use application entitlements to represent the OVHcloud user groups that this application should send.

  1. In the Admin interface, navigate to Applications > Applications and open the OVHcloud application.
  2. Click the Application entitlements tab.
  3. Click Create, enter the name of an OVHcloud user group that authentik should send, and click Create again.
  4. Bind the appropriate users or groups to the entitlement.
  5. Repeat these steps for each OVHcloud user group that authentik should send.

OVHcloud configuration​

To integrate authentik with OVHcloud, configure authentik as the trusted identity provider for your OVHcloud account. You also need to declare OVHcloud user groups that match the group names that authentik sends in the SAML assertion.

Configure the SSO connection​

  1. Log in to the OVHcloud Control Panel.
  2. Click your name in the top-right corner, and in the sidebar that appears, click your name again.
  3. Select Identity and Access Management (IAM) from the left-hand menu.
  4. Click the Identities tab to access local users management and switch to the SSO tab.
  5. Click SSO Connection and configure the following settings:
    • XML-Metadata: open the file that you downloaded in Download metadata file, copy the content, and paste it into this field.
    • User Attribute Name: for EU and CA accounts, set this to http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2005/05/identity/claims/upn.
    • Group Attribute Name: set this to the SAML Attribute Name value from the OVHcloud groups property mapping.
    • Keep active OVHcloud users (optional): enable this option if you want to keep local OVHcloud users active.
  6. Click Confirm.

Declare user groups​

OVHcloud authorizes federated users through OVHcloud user groups. The group name in OVHcloud must match an OVHcloud application entitlement name in authentik.

  1. In the Identities section, open the User groups tab.
  2. Click Declare a group.
  3. Configure the following settings:
    • Group name: enter an OVHcloud application entitlement name from authentik.
    • Role: select the OVHcloud role for this group.
  4. Click Confirm.
  5. Repeat these steps for each OVHcloud application entitlement that should grant access to OVHcloud.

If you select the NONE role, assign permissions to the group with OVHcloud IAM policies.

Configuration verification​

To confirm that authentik is properly configured with OVHcloud, log out of your OVHcloud account. On the OVHcloud login page, enter your OVH Customer ID/NIC handle followed by /idp, leave the password field blank, and click Login.

After you are redirected to authentik and successfully authenticate, OVHcloud signs you in.

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