Okta
Connect your customers' Okta orgs so Askel can provision users, assign apps, and manage group memberships as part of onboarding. The integration authenticates with a private-key service app, so no long-lived passwords or API keys are stored.
What you can do
Provision users on first login
Create or update Okta user profiles when a new employee shows up in your product, keeping Okta as the authoritative source for account state.
Assign users to the right groups
Add users to named Okta groups during onboarding so that existing group rules and access policies fire without any manual intervention.
Grant or revoke app assignments
Push app assignments to individual users or to groups, covering both Okta-managed apps and third-party SAML/OIDC integrations already in the customer's catalog.
Read group memberships to drive access logic
Pull current group membership lists to decide what a user should see in your product, without duplicating that access data in your own database.
Inspect group rules and auth policies
Read the customer's existing group rules and authentication policies so Askel can route users correctly and flag conflicts before go-live.
Pull system log events for audit trails
Fetch Okta System Log events tied to the integration's activity, giving your team a per-customer audit record without asking customers to export logs themselves.
Onboarding engineering teams onto a developer platform
You sell a developer platform for internal API management. A new customer, Bridgewater Software, signs on with 120 engineers. Bridgewater uses Okta to manage access to all internal tooling. Each new hire needs to be added to the correct Okta group (by team: backend, frontend, platform) so existing group rules propagate the right app assignments and SAML roles to your product automatically.
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Connect the Okta org
Bridgewater's Okta admin creates an Okta Service App in their org's admin console, grants it the scopes Askel needs (users, groups, apps), downloads the JSON credentials, and pastes them into Askel's connection wizard.
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Discover groups and apps
Askel reads Bridgewater's group directory and app catalog. Your customer-success team sees a list of candidate groups (backend-eng, frontend-eng, platform-eng) and the platform app in Bridgewater's catalog.
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Map your product's roles to Okta groups
Your CS rep maps each Askel role (Developer, Admin, Viewer) to the matching Bridgewater group. The mapping is saved and used for every user onboarded from this customer.
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Dry-run with existing users
Askel simulates group additions for a sample of 10 existing Bridgewater users, shows which groups they would join, and checks for conflicts with Bridgewater's existing group rules.
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Go live
Askel adds each new Bridgewater hire to the correct Okta group during onboarding. Existing Okta group rules handle app assignment and SAML role propagation without any additional configuration.
Service account
The customer's Okta admin creates an Okta Service App in their org's admin console, grants it the minimum required scopes, and downloads the JSON credential file. They paste the JSON into Askel once. Askel uses the service app's private key to mint short-lived OAuth tokens per request, so no long-lived secrets are stored on Askel's side.
How Askel sits between your product and the customer's system
FAQ for Okta
What Okta API scopes does the service app need?+
Does this work with Okta's free developer tier?+
What happens if the customer rotates the service app credentials?+
Can Askel read from Okta without writing anything?+
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