- [Instructor] Whether you're working
in a production environment with Docker,
or simply preparing for the DCA exam,
it's important that you understand
the benefits and the reasons and the configuration
around using LDAP with UCP.
When it comes to authenticating
with the Universal Control Plane,
in many cases, you're not going to wanna set up
local user names and local groups
for, perhaps, tens, hundreds or even thousands of users
in a very large enterprise.
And for that reason, in most large production environments,
LDAP, or Windows Active Directory which supports LDAP,
is configured as an authentication source
for the Universal Control Plane.
To configure it here in UCP,
you simply go into Admin Settings
and then down to Authentication & Authorization.
Down at the bottom of the screen here,
it says LDAP Enabled and you simply check, YES.
If you scroll down, and there's a little bit more
to the configuration, actually a lot more,
you, of course, need to enter your LDAP Server URL,
perhaps a password, LDAP Domains down here,
and then finally, Search Domains
and then, most likely, you wanna perform a login test
to make sure this all works.
You may wanna perform an initial sync and then click Save.
Now, creating an LDAP Server and configuring UCP
to connect to an LDAP Server
is a little bit beyond the scope of this course.
What's important is that you understand the reasons
that someone would wanna configure an LDAP Server with UCP
and where you would specifically go
to make that configuration.
I also wanna point you over here to the Docker documentation
because they offer a lot more details on how to
integrate the Universal Control Plane with an LDAP Server.