Authentication & Hasura

Introduction

Authentication verifies the identity of a user.

Hasura DDN utilizes session variables, with specific user, role, organization and any other information you may need to determine the data access rights of the user.

With these session variables you are able to define permission rules on your data domain to provide fine-grained access control to resources.

Hasura is agnostic about your authentication service. Hasura delegates the responsibility of generating session variables to your new or existing authentication service, thereby providing you with the greatest flexibility and range of options for your authentication needs.

Authentication can be configured via JSON web tokens (JWT) or a webhook service and can be integrated with any provider you choose (e.g., Auth0, Firebase Auth, AWS Cognito, a custom solution, etc.) in order to verify the user and set session variables that then control access to data.

Next steps

• Learn how to integrate JWTs to authenticate requests to Hasura DDN.
• Learn how to integrate webhooks to authenticate requests to Hasura DDN.