Application construction components - Altinn Platform Authentication

The authentication component in Altinn platform is constructed as an asp.net core web API application deployed as a docker container to a Kubernetes cluster.

The application runs on port 5040. See full details in dockerfile

Api Controllers

• Authentication : Functionality to convert the different ID-tokens from ID providers
• OpenID : Contains well known endpoint
• Logout : Logout
• Introspection

Dependencies

Authentication component take use of libraries for OpenID connect to create and validate JWT tokens.

See full list of dependencies in csproj.