2026-09-22
AWS Cognito and Microsoft Entra ID are the identity services of the two largest cloud platforms. Both handle user sign-in and token issuance, but are aimed at different scenarios: Cognito is for users of your …
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Auth0 — a cloud authentication service: it takes care of registration, login, account storage and token issuance, and the application connects to it via SDKs and standard protocols. Since May 2021 Auth0 has been owned by …
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FreeIPA — a centralized account management system for Linux servers and workstations. It solves the same problem as Active Directory in the Windows world: users, groups, passwords, access rights to servers and sudo rules …
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FusionAuth — an authentication and user management server that developers built around an API: anything you can do in the admin panel can be done via REST API. You can host it on your own servers for free or use the …
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What is Keycloak Keycloak is an open-source identity server: it handles user login, account storage and issuance of permissions for your applications. It exists so you don’t have to implement authorization in every …
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Certificates protect the tunnel well, but are a poor tool for managing human access. When there are dozens of employees, certificates have to be issued and revoked manually, and a dismissed person can continue to connect …
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Appwrite — an open backend platform that was originally designed for installation on your own server. The code is released under the BSD-3-Clause license. There is also a cloud version, Appwrite Cloud, but the primary …
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Firebase — Google’s platform for mobile and web applications. Unlike Supabase, it is built on document databases and runs entirely in Google Cloud infrastructure: the source code is closed, and you cannot install …
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Supabase — a backend platform based on PostgreSQL. It combines a database, an automatically generated REST API, user sign-up and sign-in, file storage, server functions, and change subscriptions. The code is released …
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In the previous article, we deployed a basic Jitsi Meet server using Docker.
Now let’s look at how to secure your server, enable authentication, and optimize performance for stable video calls.
Authentication: …
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