Atlassian Cloud SSO (Single Sign-On) for Azure AD using SAML


Jira SAML Single-Sign On(SSO) for Atlassian Cloud allows you to securely login using Azure AD credentials. Single Sign-on (SSO) into your Atlassian Access or Atlassian Jira Cloud Account with any of your existing Identity Provider credentials for enhanced security and features using our module.

You can refer the steps to configure Multiple IDPs and Domain Mapping in Atlassian Access from the video or documentation given below



Pre-requisites

1. Atlassian Guard (Atlassian Access) Subscription:

Atlassian Guard is an additional subscription applied across the Atlassian Cloud products like Jira Software, Jira Service Management, Jira Work Management, Confluence, and Bitbucket. It is needed for Single Sign-On (SSO) or any Cloud Service that comes under Atlassian Guard.

2. Domain Verification:

The first step of Atlassian Guard starts with the Domain Verification process to enforce SSO on the managed user accounts. This process verifies that you own a valid domain for managing the user accounts and use the same domain name for the email addresses.

Download And Installation

  • Log into your Jira instance as an admin.
  • Navigate to Apps → Explore more apps from the header menu.
  • Next, search for the miniOrange OAuth/OpenID SSO app.
  • Click on Try it free to begin a new trial of the app.
  • On the menu bar click on Apps and locate the OAuth/OpenID SSO app and click .

In this document, we will demonstrate the setup in two parts.

Part 1: Configure SAML SSO between Atlassian cloud as SP and miniOrange as IDP

Part 2: Configure SAML SSO between miniOrange as SP and Azure AD as IDP

Part 1 + Part 2 : Testing SSO between Atlassian cloud as SP and Azure AD as IDP using miniOrange Identity Broker.

Part 1: Setup miniOrange with Atlassian Access


Step 1. Setup miniOrange as an Identity Provider

  • Login into miniOrange Admin Console.
  • Go to Apps and click on the Add Application button.
  • Atlassian Access Cloud  Single Sign-On (SSO) add app
  • In Choose Application Type click on All Apps dropdown and select SAML/WS-FED application type.
  • Atlassian Access Cloud Single Sign-On (SSO) choose app type
  • Search for Atlassian Cloud (SAML) in the list.
  • Atlassian Access Cloud Single Sign-On (SSO) miniOrange Create App
  • Enter the following values in the respective fields, you will receive these values after creating an app in Atlassian access. Refer this step.
  • Custom Application Name Any name would be fine
    SP Entity ID or Issuer You will receive after configuring Atlassian Access App
    ACS URL You will receive after configuring Atlassian Access App
  • Also make sure that Sign Response & Sign Assertion both options are turned ON. Then click on the Save button.
  • Once the App is successfully Created, Select that App and then click on Metadata option to get app’s Metadata.
  • Atlassian Access Cloud SSO (Single Sign-On) View metadata
  • Since we are using miniOrange as a Brokering Service in this solution, Go to Information required to authenticate via external idp section as highlighted, and Click on Show Metadata Details.
  • Atlassian Access Cloud SSO (Single Sign-On)
  • After clicking on the Show Metadata Details button you can see the metadata details.
  • You will need these details while configuring an Atlassian Access app.
    Atlassian Access Cloud SSO (Single Sign-On) View Metadata Details
  • In the left sidebar hover on Users then click on Users List
  • Atlassian Access Cloud SSO (Single Sign-On) miniOrange Add User
  • Click on Add User and enter details to enforce Single Sign On(SSO) on that user.
  • Atlassian Access Cloud SSO (Single Sign-On) miniOrange Add New User
    Make sure that the user created here will also exist in the Atlassian Cloud.

Step 2. Setup Atlassian Cloud

  • Now login to Atlassian Cloud Admin Console.
  • Select your organization and then select the Security tab. Click on SAML Single Sign-On from the left sidebar.
  • Atlassian Access Cloud SSO (Single Sign-On) Security tab
  • You can click on Instructions for different Identity Providers. It provides a help page for specific IDP and Attribute Names for Attribute Mapping.
  • Atlassian Access Cloud SSO (Single Sign-On) Cloud Instructions
  • Here you will get the SAML Configuration Instructions for different identity providers as listed. Click on Got it.
  • Atlassian Access Cloud SSO (Single Sign-On) Attribute Mapping
  • Click on Add SAML Configuration.
  • Atlassian Access Cloud SSO (Single Sign-On) Add Configuration
  • You will be redirected to the Add SAML Configuration window. Enter IDP Entity ID, SSO URL and the public certificate. Click on the Save Configuration button.
  • You will get these details in the metadata details section after configuring the miniorange app. Refer this step
    Atlassian Access Cloud SSO (Single Sign-On) Save Configuration
  • Now you will be shown SP Entity ID & SP ACS URL as shown below. These details will be needed in miniOrange app configuration. Now set up the Authentication Policies by clicking on the View Authentication Policies.
  • Atlassian Access Cloud SSO (Single Sign-On) View Policies
  • Click on Add Policy.
  • Atlassian Access Cloud SSO (Single Sign-On) Add policy
  • Enter the policy name and add the policy.
  • Now under Single Sign-On, click on Enable Single Sign-On.
  • Atlassian Access Cloud SSO (Single Sign-On) Atlassian Enable SSO
  • Then click on the Members tab besides the settings tab and click on Add Members.
  • The Single Sign On(SSO) will work only for Added Members.
    Atlassian Access Cloud SSO (Single Sign-On) Add Member
  • Enter details and click on Add Members.
  • The user must be present in both Atlassian and miniOrange.
    Atlassian Access Cloud SSO (Single Sign-On) Add User

Step 3. Test Atlassian Cloud - miniOrange Configuration

  • Go to Atlassian Login Page.
  • Enter email and click on Continue. Then you will be redirected to miniOrange Login Page
  • After logging into miniOrange, you will be successfully logged into Atlassian Cloud Dashboard
Now, you will be able to Login to your Atlassian Dashboard using miniOrange Credentials.

If you do not have any IDP, you can always go with miniOrange IDP.

Part 2: Setup miniOrange with Azure AD


Step 1. Setup Azure AD as IDP


  • Go to miniOrange Admin Console.
  • From the left navigation bar select Identity Provider
  • Click on Add Identity Provider button.
  • azure ad Identity Provider
  • Select SAML tab.
  • Azure AD Saml App
    You can get the metadata details of miniOrange app either by clicking on the link shown by "Click here" in the yellow block, Or you can also get the details after creating the app. Keep these details handy as we will need these in configuring Azure AD.
  • Click on Show Metadata details under For SP - INITIATED SSO. You can either manually enter details or use Metadata URL or File
  • Azure AD Saml App
  • Now to add SAML app for Azure AD, go to Add Identity Provider page and click on Import IDP Metadata. Import the metadata file that you will get from Azure AD. Refer this step.
  • Azure AD Saml App
  • If you don't have a metadata file, you can also provide the details manually. You need to configure following endpoints:
  • IDP Entity ID Entity ID of IDP
    Single Login URL Login Url from IDP
    Single Logout URL Logout Url from IDP
    X.509 Certificate The public key certificate of your IDP.
  • Few other optional features that can be added to the Identity Provider(IDP) are listed in the table below:
  • Domain Mapping Can be used to redirect specific domain user to specific IDP
    Show IdP to Users Enable this if you want to show this IDP to all users during Login
    Send Configured Attributes Enabling this would allow you to add attributes to be sent from IDP
  • Click on Save.

Step 2. Configuring miniOrange as SP in Azure AD

  • Log in to Azure AD Portal
  • Select Azure Active DirectoryEnterprise Applications.
  • azure ad sso Enterprise Applications
  • Click on New Application.

  • azure ad sso New Application
  • Click on Non-gallery application section and enter the name for your app and click on Add button.
  • azure ad sso Non-gallery application
  • Click on Single sign-on from the application's left-hand navigation menu. The next screen presents the options for configuring single sign-on. Click on SAML.
  • azure ad sso Single sign-on
  • Click on the edit icon to edit SAML Configuration Details
  • azure ad sso configuring single sign-on
  • For Basic SAML configuration you need to get the Entity ID, ACS URL, and the Single Logout URL from miniOrange. Refer this step.
  • Enter the values in basic SAML configuration as shown in below screen
  • Identifier (Entity ID) Entity ID or Issuer
    Reply URL (Assertion Consumer Service URL) ACS URL
    Sign on URL (optional required during IDP-initiated SSO) SSO Login URL
    Logout URL Single Logout URL

  • By default, the following Attributes will be sent in the SAML token. You can view or edit the claims sent in the SAML token to the application under the Attributes tab.

  • azure ad sso Attributes tab
  • Download Federation Metadata xml, and copy the Logout URL as well. This will be used while configuring the Azure AD as IDP.

  • Assign users and groups to your SAML application.
  • As a security control, Azure AD will not issue a token allowing a user to sign in to the application unless Azure AD has granted access to the user. Users may be granted access directly, or through group membership.
  • Click on Users and groups from the applications left-hand navigation menu. The next screen presents the options for assigning the users/groups to the application.
  • azure ad sso-13
  • After clicking on Add user, Select Users and groups in the Add Assignment screen.
  • The next screen presents the option for selecting user or invite an external user. Select the appropriate user and click on the Select button.
  • azure ad sso selecting user or invite an external user
  • Here, you can also assign a role to this user under Select Role section. Finally, click on Assign button to assign that user or group to the SAML application.
  • azure ad sso SAML application

Step 3. Test Connection between miniOrange and Azure AD

  • Go to Identity Providers tab. Then click on select button under the app you just created. Then click on Test Connection.
  • A new popup login window will open. Enter your credentials and login.
  • Atlassian Access Cloud SSO (Single Sign-On) Add Member
  • Now you will see TEST SUCCESSFULL in a new popup window. If not, then check if you have missed any of the above step.

Part 3: Test Atlassian - Azure AD Configuration


  • Go to Atlassian Login Portal.
  • Enter email and click on Continue. Then you will be redirected to Azure AD Login Page.
  • After logging into Azure AD Login Page, you will be successfully logged into Atlassian Cloud Dashboard.

Exclusive features other miniOrange cloud app provides

  • Multiple Identity Providers(IDPs) to authenticate different types of users with different IDP.
  • Multiple Department Based Login to force the users to authenticate via a specific IDP based on the users' department.
  • Domain Mapping that allow users to redirect to their IDP based on their email departments.
  • Custom Attribute Mapping to update the user profile attributes in the application with the user attributes received from the IdP.
  • Signed Request and Response to secure your SSO with signed requests and encrypted SAML assertions.
  • Username Transformation to extract the required username from the received attribute using Regular Expression.
  • Group Mapping allows mapping user’s Identity Provider(IdP) groups to application groups. The user groups are updated on SSO.
  • User Store to integrate your application with multiple user stores like AD, LDAP, external database, etc. to easily manage your users.
  • Server to Cloud Migration to easily migrate your server SSO settings into Cloud.

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