How to open IDCS Console from OCI– Finding the entry to Identity Cloud Service

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I have just spent way too much time on finding the way to the Oracle IDCS console from within my OCI (Oracle Cloud Infrastructure) console. I was reading a bunch of interesting articles on using IDCS to protect access to OCI Functions and I was trying to follow along. However, these articles started more or less by saying: open your IDCS Console – without explaining how to get there.

Now that I know it, it is simple. Of course. So I share it for your sake – and for mine because I am bound to forget about this again.

EDIT (29th November 2021): I was just informed by Jan Willem Veldhuis of the following: IDCS is being merged into OCI IAM. Soon it will show up as “Identity Domain” in the OCI console replacing the old IDCS console. Check this document for details: https://www.oracle.com/a/ocom/docs/security/what-idcs-customers-should-expect-post-migration.pdf.

In the OCI Console’s search box, type IDCS.

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The search result is shown and it will include in the Resources list a resource of type Identity Provider that is called  OracleIdentityCloudService. Click on that entry.

This will take you to a screen that looks like this:

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Click on the URL marked as Oracle Identity Cloud Service Console. This will take you to the IDCS Console:

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This is where you can add applications that you want the IDCS to be the Authentication Provider for. As described in some nice articles:

Creating a web site using OCI services Part 4 – protecting part of your site with Identity Cloud Service – https://www.ateam-oracle.com/post/misusing-oci-serviices-part4

Creating a 3-legged OAuth Application in IDCS – https://www.ateam-oracle.com/post/creating-a-3-legged-oauth-application-in-idcs

IP Address Whitelisting in Oracle Identity Cloud Service – https://www.ateam-oracle.com/post/ip-address-whitelisting-in-oracle-identity-cloud-service

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Lucas Jellema

Lucas Jellema, active in IT (and with Oracle) since 1994. Oracle ACE Director and Oracle Developer Champion. Solution architect and developer on diverse areas including SQL, JavaScript, Kubernetes & Docker, Machine Learning, Java, SOA and microservices, events in various shapes and forms and many other things. Author of the Oracle Press book Oracle SOA Suite 12c Handbook. Frequent presenter on user groups and community events and conferences such as JavaOne, Oracle Code, CodeOne, NLJUG JFall and Oracle OpenWorld.
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One thought on “How to open IDCS Console from OCI– Finding the entry to Identity Cloud Service

  1. I hope you provided documentation feedback to Oracle. They have a pretty good setup for updating that stuff, at least they used to.

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