Get started with SAML Single Sign-On authentication

Ory Polis can be used with any web application to integrate Single Sign-On (SSO) authentication.

There are two ways to integrate Ory Polis with an application. Depending on your use case, you can choose either one of them.

• As a separate service
  • This is available for all frameworks and languages.
  • The advantage of running a separate service is that you get all of the UI tooling such as the Admin Portal to handle the SSO and Directory Sync connections with the service.
  • The disadvantage is that you have to manage the operations of a separate service.

For the service quickstart head over to the service quickstart documentation.

• As an NPM library
  • This is available only if you are developing your application using Node.js.
  • The advantage of embedding Ory Polis as an npm library is that you do not have to manage the operations of a separate service.
  • The disadvantage is that you do not readily get the UI tooling such as the Admin Portal with this method.

For the NPM quickstart head over to the NPM quickstart documentation.