Secure APIs with FastAPI and the Microsoft Identity Platform
Course description
Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) is a cloud-based Identity and Access Management service from Microsoft. With security threats on the rise it’s important to know how to build secure solutions with robust authentication and authorization services to protect your data. In this course we will introduce basic identity principals and learn how to use Azure AD to enforce who and how they can access our Fast APIs using open industry standards such as OAuth2 and OIDC.
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If you are a Python developer that wants to know how to implement secure, JWT-based authentication and authorization by leveraging a scalable, secure and flexible identity provider such Azure AD, then this course is for you. You will learn how to secure your APIs without the need to write too much code or having intricate knowledge on how OAuth2 and OIDC work. A plug and play solution for every Python developer and solution architect out there.
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All Course Lessons (26)
| # | Lesson Title | Duration | Access |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Welcome Demo | 01:20 | |
| 2 | API security | 01:02 | |
| 3 | Your instructor | 01:02 | |
| 4 | More on FastAPI and Microsoft Identit | 01:14 | |
| 5 | What is identity? | 03:19 | |
| 6 | Username and password databases | 03:19 | |
| 7 | Introduction to the OAuth2 protocol | 03:36 | |
| 8 | Introduction to the OIDC protocol | 03:19 | |
| 9 | Identity-as-a-service | 03:19 | |
| 10 | Introduction to Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) | 02:25 | |
| 11 | Provisioning an Azure AD tenant | 04:59 | |
| 12 | Creating your first application registration | 05:01 | |
| 13 | Securing FastAPI with Azure A | 08:15 | |
| 14 | Application types | 03:28 | |
| 15 | Demo: Building a console app that calls a secure FastAPI API | 15:20 | |
| 16 | Demo: ASP.NET Core web app consuming a FastAPI API | 13:09 | |
| 17 | Benefits of JWT authentication | 04:35 | |
| 18 | The anatomy of JWTs and token validation | 11:24 | |
| 19 | Secure authentication with self-signed certificates | 06:23 | |
| 20 | Handling authentication and authorization errors | 04:06 | |
| 21 | You've made it! | 00:59 | |
| 22 | Review: Introduction to the Microsoft Identity Platform | 00:59 | |
| 23 | Review: Securing FastAPI with Microsoft Identity | 00:51 | |
| 24 | Review: Calling our secure FastAPI | 00:51 | |
| 25 | Review: JWT-based authentication | 00:33 | |
| 26 | Thanks and congrats | 00:29 |
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