1. Administering Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Process Automation
  2. Manage Access and Assign Roles
  3. Manage Access Without an Identity Domain
  4. Understand Federation

Understand Federation

If your tenancy does not use identity domains, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Identity and Access Management (IAM) must be federated with Oracle Identity Cloud Service (IDCS) for your tenancy.

Note:

This topic applies only to tenancies that do not use identity domains. See Differences Between Tenancies With and Without Identity Domains.

User federation refers to linking a user's identity and attributes across multiple identity management systems. Federation in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Process Automation means that identities are linked in IDCS and IAM.

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Process Automation uses both Oracle Identity Cloud Service (IDCS) and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Identity and Access Management (IAM) to manage users and groups:

  • Create and manage users in IDCS. By default, most tenancies are federated with IDCS. For more information, see Understanding Administrator Roles in Administering Oracle Identity Cloud Service.
  • Manage permissions using policies in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure's IAM service.

For background information on federation with Oracle Identity Cloud Service, see Federating with Identity Providers and Federating with Oracle Identity Cloud Service in the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure documentation.