Signon is a centralised OAuth2 based single sign-on provider for GDS services that provides username/password and 2-Factor authentication.
Integration Environment Signon
Devise is used to provide username password sign-in, and Doorkeeper as an OAuth 2 provider.
Details of our interpretation of OAuth are provided in an accompanying document
MySQL or Postgres for main data storage. We use MySQL in GOV.UK Production
Redis/Sidekiq for ActiveJob asynchronous tasks
The web application itself is run like any other Rails app, for example:
script/rails sIn development, you can run sidekiq to process background jobs:
bundle exec sidekiq -C config/sidekiq.ymlbundle exec rakeSee accompanying Usage Documentation