Building Microservices with .NET – Security and Identity

You know the basics, but there are still many questions to answer: How will your users register and sign in to your system? How can your microservices protect themselves against unauthorized access? What permissions do your users have across the different microservices? Take your microservices architecture to the next level by adding a fundamental component: Security.

In this course you will standup a brand new microservice, the Identity microservice. This service will allow users to register and sign in to the system via the ASP.NET Core Identity membership system, as well as act as an authorization server and an OpenId provider thanks to its integration with IdentityServer. With that, all microservices will be protected using modern authorization protocols like OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect, the de–facto standards for securing microservices these days.

Here for some of the things you will learn in this course:

Create an Identity microservice

Scaffold user registration and login UI components via ASP.NET Core Identity

Stand up an authorization server and OpenID provider via IdentiyServer

Generate and use JSON Web Tokens in Postman

Implement authentication via OpenID Connect

Implement the OAuth 2.0 authorization code flow with PKCE

Secure your microservices with ASP.NET Core authentication and authorization

Use the .NET Secret Manager to store secrets during local development