Tanzu Platform for Cloud Foundry 10.0

User Account and Authentication

Last Updated March 13, 2025

User Account and Authentication (UAA) is an open-source identity server project under the Cloud Foundry Foundation.

UAA provides enterprise scale identity management features and identity-based security for apps and APIs. It supports open standards for authentication and authorization.

For more information, see the UAA repository on GitHub. UAA also has a public API. For more information, see the UAA API documentation.

The following topics present an overview of how UAA works and a discussion of key concepts: