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Which IdentityServer4 sample should I choose as a starting point?

I am going to use identityServer4 to support a few clients. There are many samples of server/host implementation and I'm not sure which one to chose as a starting point. Is any host maintained regularity and has the latest fixes?

  • I have Asp.net core mvc and web.api clients(most of IdentityServer4 samples included)
  • I also have Web forms Client for IdentityServer3 in VS2015
  • I am using Azure Active Directory(AAD) and checked sample that is a fork outside of IdentityServer repositories, but based on IdentityServer4 External Provider sample in VS2015
  • I want to use persistent data, so I looked at IdentityServer4 EF Core Quickstarts/8_EntityFrameworkStorage Sample. If anyone has an example of Azure Table Storage or Redis implementation, please let me know?
  • Also there is Host in main IdentityServer4 repository. I assume that it has the most up-to-date code. But the default branch is dev- is it stable enough?

Should I take 8_EntityFrameworkStorage as the base( because it includes more of functionality that I need) or IdentityServer4 Host? Or somewhere exists another recommended Host base implementation?

Solution

  • Initially I based my work on Quickstart #8: EntityFramework configuration , but found that for user storage I need to incorporate Asp.Net Identity from Quickstart #6: IdentityServer and ASP.NET Identity , which is quite different ,in particular in AccountController ExternalLogin implementation. Other people also struggled with merging different Quickstarts(e.g. here )

    Later ( unfortunately a bit too late for myself) I found a brilliant article Getting Started with IdentityServer 4 with corresponding source code repository https://github.com/scottbrady91/IdentityServer4-Example. Note however that the repository is not a part of the official IdentityServer and may become out of date in the future.

    I believe that Scott Brady's IdentityServer4-Example is the most practical start point for using IdentityServer4.