Built with
Operational stack
Symfony, SimpleSAMLphp, PostgreSQL, Redis, and Docker-based deployment with generated per-tenant configuration.
U
Research and Education Identity
eduID.africa
v1.0.7
Managed identity for higher education and research
Launch a standards-ready institutional IdP without building the stack from scratch.
eduID.africa packages tenant branding, metadata generation, service provider onboarding, account lifecycle, attribute release, and federation operations into one deployable platform for research and education identity services.
- Backends
- LDAP, SQL, SAML, RADIUS
- Federation
- Rich IdP metadata and SP onboarding
- Operations
- Containerized deployment and admin workflows
What is included
- Institution-scoped tenant IdPs with branding, contacts, and federation publication controls.
- Service provider metadata import, approval, requested-attribute review, and release policy management.
- Self-service account registration, invitations, password reset, and tenant-admin approval workflows.
- eduroam authentication onboarding for supported backends, alongside federation and metadata automation.
Documentation
Rollout guidance
Deployment notes, federation practices, and operating procedures are intended to live on GitLab for institutional teams.
Common next steps
Administrative and operational screens require sign-in. Public visitors are redirected to login when they try to access protected areas.
Platform posture
Made for repeatable institutional deployment
Federation
Metadata publication, discovery support, and federation export.
Identity lifecycle
Invites, password reset, self-registration, and tenant approval workflows.
Attribute control
Tenant defaults and per-service-provider release decisions.
Operations
Structured errors, request IDs, and documented deployment paths.