How to Build a Secure REST API with OpenID Connect

Written by lafernando | Published 2020/07/10
Tech Story Tags: ballerinalang | rest-api | microservices | openid-connect | security | hackernoon-top-story | secure-rest-api | programming

TLDR How to Build a Secure REST API with OpenID Connect with Quarkus and Okta. We’ll take a look at building a secured REST API by integrating with Okta as the identity provider. This article is based on the DZone article Building a Java REST API. We will be implementing a similar scenario here by using Ballerinalang and show how it’s simpler and more straightforward to implement compared to our Java counterpart. In Ballerina, it is mandated that a secure transport should be used in an authentication scenario such as in our case.via the TL;DR App

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Written by lafernando | Software architect and evangelist @ WSO2 Inc.
Published by HackerNoon on 2020/07/10