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).
Training team:
- Mario Reale GÉANT
- Anass Chabli RENATER
- Andrijana Todosijevic AMRES
- Katarina Simonovic AMRES
- Marco Malavolti GARR
- Zenon Mousmoulas GRNET
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 |