We certainly covered a lot of ground in this chapter. We learned about how to install and configure an OpenLDAP server and integrate it with Grafana to provide authentication lookup. Then, we walked through the process of registering Grafana with three different OAuth 2 providers: GitHub, Google, and Okta. If you want full control of all aspects of user lookup for authentication, then LDAP is certainly a viable solution. If you'd rather have authentication handled securely by a third-party provider, especially if it integrates with other user management systems in your organization, then an external OAuth provider is probably a better solution.
Yet, after all of this, we have only touched on a few of the ever-growing number of authentication options available for Grafana, so consult the Grafana documentation for more details.
In this chapter, we took a small step in integrating Grafana authentication with external cloud services. In the next (and...