Single Sign-On (SSO) - CI/CD Glossary Definition
Single sign-on lets a user authenticate once with an identity provider and then access many applications without logging in again to each one.
Protocols
SSO is typically implemented with SAML or OpenID Connect, where the identity provider issues assertions or tokens that each application trusts.
In CI/CD
SSO commonly guards the developer platform and CI console; enforcing it plus MFA reduces the chance of a compromised human account reaching pipelines.
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