This documentation is provided in a context of live training, with interactive parts.
The technical choices made during the training (ex : use of Shibboleth instead of SimpleSAMLphp) are related to the training environment and are not to be taken as best practices.
The material can be used as a support for self-training, but without any guarantee of result.
In case of difficulty, you can:
- Share your interest to participate to a training session : Next training sessions ?
- Ask for help from other Federation Operators (eduGAIN Slack Channel edugain.slack.com )
Introduction
The objectives of this workshop is to provide Federation Operators with information and knowledge on how to build and deploy a national federation and join eduGAIN.
This virtual training covers the concepts and practical implementations of Identity, authentication and authorisation using a federated approach, in addition to eduGAIN policies and tools.
Target audience
The course targets the application and systems engineers from National Research and Education Networks (NRENs).
Target journay
The course targets the application and systems engineers from National Research and Education Networks (NRENs).
Latest Training materials ( from the latest training - Ubuntunet - Feb 2024)
OBSOLETE - OLDER VERSIONS - Training materials (older material)
| Sessions | Presentations |
|---|---|
| Understand the principles of Identity Federation and eduGAIN | 1-GEANT-Trust-and-Identity-Services.pdf |
| 2-Presentation-of-eduGAIN.pdf | |
| 3-Introduction-to-Federated-Identity-Management.pdf | |
| 4-Identity-Federation-key-components.pdf | |
| Hands-on exercises: OpenLDAP, Shibboleth IdP, SP, DS … | 1-Hands-on-IDP-SP-DS.pdf |
| 2-Hands-on-Register-IdP-Test-Federation.pdf | |
| 3-Hands-on-Register-Register-SP-Federation-and-configure-shibbolethDS.pdf | |
| Understand the role of Federation Operators and Policies to build a Federation & join eduGAIN | 5-Presentation-of-eduGAIN-policies.pdf |
| 6-Presentation-of-eduGAIN-policies-Metadata-Registration-Practice-Statement.pdf | |
| Hands-on exercises: How to build and maintain a Identity Federation & join eduGAIN | |
| 5-Hands-on-Jagger-installation-commands.pdf | |
| 5.1-Hands-on-Jagger-gearman-worker-metasigner.py | |
| 7-Presentation-of-Best-Current-Practices.pdf | |
| 8-How-to-use-Jagger-Interface.pdf | |
| 9-How-to-install-Jagger.pdf |