What’s involved in setting up enterprise federation

Setting up enterprise federation for your corporate domain is a self-service process that involves multiple steps, users, and roles.

Note

Due to the migration of identity systems, no new federations are allowed starting on March 15th, 2024, until further notice.

Here’s who and what’s involved in federating your corporate domain with Tanzu Platform cloud services.

• Organization Owner

  Organization Owner users of unfederated domains can kick off the federation setup from the Tanzu Platform cloud services console. Any Organization Owner can initiate the self-service federation process and assign one or more Enterprise Administrators to complete the setup.

  Organization Owners who hold system administrator roles with their enterprise and have sufficient knowledge of the enterprise directory service and identity provider configuration, can act as Enterprise Administrators for the federation setup.

• Enterprise Administrator

  The Enterprise Administrator is a system administrator who belongs to the central security team for your enterprise and manages the directory services and identity providers. As the designated person to set up enterprise federation for your corporate domain, the Enterprise Administrator completes the configuration and validation steps of the self-service setup process. Setting up enterprise federation might involve representatives of different security teams. The designated Enterprise Administrator can invite other administrators to help with the setup.

• The Enterprise Federation dashboard

  When an Organization Owner initiates the self-service federation workflow for their corporate domain by inviting one or more Enterprise Administrators, a special Management Organization is created. This Organization provides access to the Enterprise Federation dashboard. The purpose of the dashboard is to set up enterprise federation for the corporate domain and to modify the initial setup. Everyone involved in the self-service federation process receives an email notification with a link to access the Enterprise Federation dashboard in the Management Organization.

Parent topic:What is enterprise federation and how does it work with Tanzu Platform cloud services