System documentation

Technical documentation of how Altinn Authorization is built and how its components work together.

This section describes how Altinn Authorization is built. It is intended for developers and architects in the team, and for others who want to understand the solution, its responsibilities and technical relationships.

It is not an integration guide for system vendors or service owners. For integration and API usage, see getting started, guides and the API documentation.

The system in one sentence

Altinn Authorization combines identity, party, resource, rights and context to decide whether an action is permitted and to make the decision traceable.

Reading guide

• Architecture describes the system context, responsibilities and overall construction.
• Application architecture describes internal structure, technologies and data ownership.
• Components explains component ownership and collaboration.
• Technical flows follows the most important calls through the system.
• Integrations and dependencies describes boundaries towards other Altinn teams and shared national services.
• Security and trust describes trust boundaries and security principles.
• Operations and observability describes runtime, events and cross-component troubleshooting.

• System architecture

  System context, responsibilities and overall construction of Altinn Authorization.

• Information model

  Concepts and relationships in the Altinn Authorization domain.

• Application architecture

  Internal structure, technologies and data ownership for Altinn Authorization applications.

• Components

  Responsibilities, data and collaboration for Altinn Authorization components.

• Technical flows

  The main cross-component flows in Altinn Authorization.

• Integrations and dependencies

  Boundaries towards other Altinn teams, shared services and data sources.

• Security and trust

  Trust boundaries and security principles in Altinn Authorization.

• Operations and observability

  Runtime, observability and cross-component troubleshooting for Altinn Authorization.