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# dex - A federated OpenID Connect provider
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dex is an OAuth2 server that presents clients with a low overhead framework for
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identifying users while leveraging existing identity services such as Google
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Accounts, FreeIPA, GitHub, etc, for actual authentication. dex sits between your
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applications and an identity service, providing a backend agnostic flavor of
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OAuth2 called [OpenID Connect](https://openid.net/connect/), a spec will allows
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dex to support:
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* Short-lived, signed tokens with predefined fields (such as email) issued on
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behalf of users.
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* Well known discovery of OAuth2 endpoints.
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* OAuth2 mechanisms such as refresh tokens and revocation for long term access.
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* Automatic signing key rotation.
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Any system which can query dex can cryptographically verify a users identity
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based on these tokens, allowing authentication events to be passed between
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backend services.
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One such application that consumes OpenID Connect tokens is the [Kubernetes](
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http://kubernetes.io/) API server, allowing dex to provide identity for any
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Kubernetes clusters.
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