{"id":29701,"date":"2019-03-07T10:00:30","date_gmt":"2019-03-07T17:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jumpcloud.com\/?p=29701"},"modified":"2024-12-20T14:47:26","modified_gmt":"2024-12-20T19:47:26","slug":"ldap-use-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jumpcloud.com\/blog\/ldap-use-cases","title":{"rendered":"Use Cases for LDAP"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">LDAP is the <a href=\"https:\/\/jumpcloud.com\/blog\/what-is-ldap\">Lightweight Directory Access Protocol<\/a>. Developed in 1993, LDAP is still widely used at businesses and organizations worldwide for directory-based authentication.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> With the changing identity management landscape and all kinds of new, modern authentication protocols, many are wondering if LDAP is still relevant. In this post we\u2019ll start by listing some of the common use cases for LDAP \u2013 then we\u2019ll go on to explain how LDAP started and how it has adapted to the changing IT landscape. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">We\u2019ll also share where we think LDAP is going: a cloud-based, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/jumpcloud.com\/platform\/ldap\">LDAP-as-a-Service<\/a>\u201d approach that enables organizations to leverage the protocol without having to stand up their own <a href=\"\/blog\/choosing-ldap-server\">LDAP servers<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Use Cases for LDAP<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">When is it appropriate to use LDAP? While LDAP can be considered a legacy protocol, it is still excellent with authenticating Linux-based applications including many open source solutions. Examples of use cases for authenticating via LDAP include:<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">OpenVPN<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Jenkins<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kubernetes<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Docker<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Atlassian Jira &amp; Confluence<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Linux Samba servers and commercially distributed NAS appliances like Synology or QNAP<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This list makes no claims of being comprehensive. In fact, LDAP is such a versatile protocol that we would venture to say there are literally thousands of additional applications that can be integrated using LDAP.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Using LDAP in a Multi-protocol World<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In modern IT, how do you implement LDAP? It\u2019s a very good question because every IT resource seems to have its preference for protocol. The result is a need for a variety of authentication protocols, including SAML, RADIUS, OAuth, and others. The downstream impact is that IT admins and DevOps engineers end up needing to separately implement each protocol. This is called \u201csiloed identity management\u201d and it can be very time consuming.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">But none of these protocols have completely taken over, so it is critical to have an identity and access management solution that can manage a variety of protocols. We\u2019ll go into further depth at the end about this, but that\u2019s what we\u2019re making at JumpCloud: a cloud-based identity provider that unifies IT resource management by supporting a wide variety of protocols through a single platform. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">How LDAP Started<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"325\" src=\"https:\/\/jumpcloud.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/evolution-of-directory-service-simple.png\" alt=\"The evolution of directory services\" class=\"wp-image-17854\" style=\"width:540px;height:244px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jumpcloud.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/evolution-of-directory-service-simple.png 720w, https:\/\/jumpcloud.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/evolution-of-directory-service-simple-300x135.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The development of LDAP was arguably the event that kicked off the modern era of identity management. Created by Tim Howes and his colleagues at the University of Michigan, LDAP quickly became a standard authentication protocol. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>I was working for the University\u2019s information technology division. The University was mostly on a homegrown mainframe system for email and directory service throughout the campus. I was assigned this project to deploy an X.500 directory for the campus, which I completed. But I quickly learned that it was way too heavy of a protocol and too complicated for the machines that were on most people\u2019s desktops.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;So, LDAP came out of my desire to do something a little lighter weight to accommodate the Macs and PCs that were on everybody\u2019s desktop. Some colleagues and I created a similar protocol called DIXIE, which people liked. Soon after that, I was approached by some people in the IETF community to create a standardized version of DIXIE, and, with the help of a couple of colleagues, that\u2019s how LDAP was born.&#8221;<\/p>\n<cite><a href=\"https:\/\/jumpcloud.com\/blog\/tim-howes-interview-origins-ldap\">Tim Howes<\/a> in a 2017 interview<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">LDAP lived up to its name (lightweight directory access protocol) and would go on to spawn a number of identity providers including <a href=\"\/blog\/what-is-openldap\">OpenLDAP <\/a>and Microsoft\u00ae Active Directory\u00ae among many others.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Impact of LDAP<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">LDAP began making ripples almost immediately. The protocol spread from the campus of Michigan to enterprises around the world, providing an open source and non-commercialized directory. LDAP offered an avenue for managing open source Linux clusters. At the time (around 1995), these Linux clusters were paving the way and laying the foundation of the rapidly scaling internet. LDAP could mimic SuSe Linux and HP-UX. But where those options were expensive, heavyweight, and commercialized, LDAP was low cost, lightweight, and open source. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">While Active Directory became the go-to solution for on-prem, Windows<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00ae<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">-based networks, LDAP became ubiquitous with more technical, DevOps infrastructure \u2013 servers, Linux\/Unix applications, networking equipment, file servers, and more.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">LDAP and The Transformation of IT<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Over the last decade, the IT landscape has changed dramatically with the addition of cloud infrastructure from AWS<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00ae<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, G Suite<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u2122<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and Office 365, web applications, Samba file server \/ NAS appliances, WiFi, macOS<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00ae<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and Linux systems, and much more. Somewhat keeping pace with this shifting landscape has been a plethora of authentication protocols such as SAML, OAuth, OpenID Connect, and many more.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A legacy protocol like LDAP easily could have been forgotten in this transformation, but through it all, LDAP has stayed in use \u2013 even at modern, cloud-forward organizations. To simplify a complex situation, the reasons that LDAP has been able to persist are the same reasons that allowed it to catch on in the first place: it\u2019s lightweight, adaptive, and foundational. Inertia is also a powerful factor. Even if organizations would like to move off of LDAP, many don\u2019t because it\u2019s so deeply interwoven into their infrastructure.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<div class=\"promotion-banner-small is-flex-direction-column has-items-aligned-flex-start has-items-aligned-center-tablet\">\n    <div class=\"promo-small-image is-hidden-mobile\">\n        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jumpcloud.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Promos_GooglePartnership_290x175-SiteDisplay_GooglePartnershipPage-aspect-ratio-160-110.png\" alt=\"JumpCloud\">\n    <\/div>\n    <div class=\"promo-small-content\">\n        <p class=\"is-type-body-tiny is-type-weight-bold is-important promo-small-title\">\n                    <\/p>\n        <p class=\"is-type-body-default is-important\">\n            Securely connect to any resource using Google Workspace and JumpCloud.        <\/p>\n    <\/div>\n    <div class=\"promo-small-cta\">\n        <a href=\"https:\/\/jumpcloud.com\/leverage-jumpcloud-and-google-together\" data-promo=\"JumpCloud and Google Workspace\" class=\"button is-primary-green promo-small-banner-link\">Learn More<\/a>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Where LDAP is Going<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">If they don\u2019t already have an existing LDAP implementation, IT organizations generally don\u2019t want to set up an entire LDAP infrastructure just for a handful of applications. Still, they know that connecting those applications and infrastructure to LDAP is critical.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"\/blog\/overview-of-cloud-ldap\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">LDAP-as-a-Service<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> has emerged to solve the problem of building dedicated LDAP infrastructure. LDAP-as-a-Service is just one feature of JumpCloud \u2013 a <\/span><a href=\"\/platform\/cloud-directory\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">cloud-based directory service<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> that securely connects users to their IT resources including systems, applications, files, and networks. JumpCloud\u2019s independent approach means it\u2019s an identity provider designed to work regardless of platform, protocol, provider, and location.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Some of the benefit<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">s of leveraging JumpCloud for LDAP include:<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">No on-prem servers required \u2013 and therefore no configuration or management<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">High availability \u2013 including automated load balancing, elastic scaling, and redundancy<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Schema compliance \u2013 OpenLDAP RFC-2307-based schema and directory structure<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Low latency \u2013 regional load balancing to ensure high performance<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">LDAPS and Start TLS ensure your data is protected in transit <\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Samba file server support \u2013 including NAS systems such as Synology, QNAP, and FreeNAS<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Extended user attributes \u2013 employee ID, job title, department, location, and more<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Group membership \u2013 leverage groupOfNames and memberOf object classes for authorization needs<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">If you would like to learn more about how <a href=\"http:\/\/managed ldap\">managed LDAP<\/a> may be able to help you with your use case for LDAP, we invite you to take a look at our <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/support.jumpcloud.com\/support\/s\/article\/using-jumpclouds-ldap-as-a-service1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">support documentation on using LDAP-as-a-Service<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. You\u2019re also welcome to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/jumpcloud.com\/guided-simulations\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">get a demo<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> of the platform or <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/console.jumpcloud.com\/signup\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">sign up for a trial of JumpCloud<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to test cloud LDAP out for yourself. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019ve put together a list of common use cases for LDAP. 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