We recently onboarded a customer who had Enterprise SSO requirements as a non-negotiable, and we were able to deliver a solution in ~2 days worth of w

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2024-11-21 21:00:08

We recently onboarded a customer who had Enterprise SSO requirements as a non-negotiable, and we were able to deliver a solution in ~2 days worth of work. I found the implementation to be quite straightforward so here’s a blog post.

As with any technical problem, let’s first describe the requirement. Convoy is a webhook gateway that is available in the Cloud or on-prem. This customer in particular is going to deploy Convoy in their corporate network so the SSO capability needed to be embedded inside the binary.

The first option we considered was building it ourselves from scratch leveraging open source libraries. This option was very attractive since this capability needs to exist in the core gateway that would be deployed by our customers. The idea of adding a third-party SaaS dependency that our customers needed to pay for wasn’t very appealing to us. But the problem with this approach is it would take us longer to ship because nobody on the team had shipped Enterprise SSO.

Nonetheless, we evaluated third-party SaaS offerings, specifically WorkOS and SSOReady. Both solutions seemed like equally viable options. But SSOReady stood out because we saw that we could potentially bundle the solution together with Convoy as an hoslitic solution for customers who didn’t want to reach out to a service for SSO. WorkOS on the other hand, was primarily a SaaS offering, so this wouldn’t have been possible.