Now that we have a firm understanding of the approaches and strategies around building secure and reliable cloud native solutions, in this section we will introduce supportive tools, products, and open source projects. It should be noted that these tools help make the end goals discussed in this chapter easier to attain, but come at a price. Naturally, in-house development of these features tuned to your cloud consumption is best, but can prove difficult and timely to do.
Okta has a growing number of identity-related services, but is best known for it's single-sign on service that allows users to manage login names and passwords for a large number of disparate accounts (across IaaS, PaaS, and Saas). This provides for a much more efficient login experience and helps users (especially admins) to manage multiple user/roles within one cloud account (https://www.okta.com/):
