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title: "Pinniped Documentation"
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layout: docs
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name: Overview
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---
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## Overview
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Pinniped provides identity services to Kubernetes.
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Pinniped allows cluster administrators to easily plug in external identity
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providers (IDPs) into Kubernetes clusters. This is achieved via a uniform
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install procedure across all types and origins of Kubernetes clusters,
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declarative configuration via Kubernetes APIs, enterprise-grade integrations
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with IDPs, and distribution-specific integration strategies.
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### Example Use Cases
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* Your team uses a large enterprise IDP, and has many clusters that they
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manage. Pinniped provides:
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* Seamless and robust integration with the IDP
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* Easy installation across clusters of any type and origin
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* A simplified login flow across all clusters
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* Your team shares a single cluster. Pinniped provides:
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* Simple configuration to integrate an IDP
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* Individual, revocable identities
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### Architecture
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Pinniped offers credential exchange to enable a user to exchange an external IDP
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credential for a short-lived, cluster-specific credential. Pinniped supports various
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IDP types and implements different integration strategies for various Kubernetes
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distributions to make authentication possible.
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To learn more, see [docs/architecture](/docs/architecture).
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<img src="docs/img/pinniped_architecture_concierge_supervisor.svg" alt="Pinniped Architecture Sketch" width="300px"/>
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## Trying Pinniped
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Care to kick the tires? It's easy to [install and try Pinniped](/docs/demo).
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## Discussion
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Got a question, comment, or idea? Please don't hesitate to reach out via the GitHub [Discussions](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/pinniped/discussions) tab at the top of this page.
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## Contributions
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Contributions are welcome. Before contributing, please see the [contributing guide](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/pinniped/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md).
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## Reporting Security Vulnerabilities
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Please follow the procedure described in [SECURITY.md](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/pinniped/blob/main/SECURITY.md).
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## License
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Pinniped is open source and licensed under Apache License Version 2.0. See [LICENSE](https://github.com/vmware-tanzu/pinniped/blob/main/LICENSE).
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Copyright 2020 the Pinniped contributors. All Rights Reserved.
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