Altinn Platform

Altinn Platform contains components with central functionality that can be used by apps. Currently, this is storage, authentication, authorization, profile, register, receipt, pdf and events.

The components are deployed as microservices.

See below for details about each component.

• Authentication

  The authentication component provides functionality to authenticate users and systems accessing Altinn Apps and Altinn platform.

• Authorization

  The authorization component contains a highly flexible policy decision point and policy retrieval point to authorize access to applications and Altinn platform components.

• Events

  The Events component receives and publishes events.

• PDF

  The PDF component is responsible for generating PDF printouts for submitted instances of an app.

• Profile

  The Profile component gives profile information for users in Altinn.

• Receipt

  The Receipt component in Altinn Platform presents a receipt for apps.

• Register

  The Register micro service gives register information to Apps.

• Storage

  The Storage component gives storage capabilities to the apps.