About the platform
The Ping Identity Platform is the only offering for access management, identity management, user-managed access, directory services, and an identity gateway, designed and built as a single, unified platform.
About this documentation
This documentation includes general statements of functionality for the latest versions of the following software:
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PingAM, with Web Agents and Java Agents
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PingIDM
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PingDS
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Edge Security (PingGateway)
This documentation describes in general terms the modules that compose the Ping Identity Platform, and indicates where to find the documentation corresponding to each module. This documentation is not meant to serve as a statement of functional specifications. Software functionality may evolve in incompatible ways in major and minor releases, and occasionally in maintenance (patch) releases. Release notes cover many incompatible changes. If you see an incompatible change for a stable interface that is not mentioned in the release notes, please report an issue with the product documentation for that release.
Deployment enhancements
In addition to the modules listed in the preceding section, you can use the following software to enhance platform deployments.
Run the platform in containers on Kubernetes
The Ping Identity Platform, (PingAM, PingIDM, PingDS, PingGateway, and the platform UI) is supported when running in containers on Kubernetes platforms, including Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS), Microsoft Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), and IBM RedHat OpenShift. It is recommended that you have a support contract in place with your Kubernetes platform vendor or partner to resolve any infrastructure or Kubernetes platform-related issues. Ping Identity supports the identity platform while the Kubernetes vendor or partner provides support for their platform.
You are responsible for building images and running containers of the Ping Identity software components using a supported operating system and all required software dependencies.
Kubernetes deployment tools from Ping Identity
Ping Identity provides a reference toolset in the forgeops and forgeops-extras Git repositories for automating the deployment of the Ping Identity Platform in Kubernetes. These reference tools are provided for use with Google Kubernetes Engine, Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service, and Microsoft Azure Kubernetes Service. (Ping Identity supports running the identity platform on IBM RedHat OpenShift but does not provide the reference tools for IBM RedHat OpenShift.)
Ping Identity also publishes reference Docker images for testing and development, but these images should not be used in production. For production deployments, it is recommended that customers build and run containers using a supported operating system and all required software dependencies. Additionally, to help ensure interoperability across container images and the ForgeOps tools, Docker images must be built using the Dockerfile templates as described in the ForgeOps documentation.
Partner offerings
Ping Identity’s partner, Midships Limited, offers a Kubernetes deployment accelerator (supported by Midships) for Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS), Microsoft Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), and IBM RedHat OpenShift.
ForgeRock Authenticator application
This app allows end users to perform multi-factor authentication and transactional authorization from a registered Android or iOS device. It is designed for use in both multi-factor and passwordless authentication scenarios. It is associated with a Push Authentication Simple Notification Service module that depends on the module described in Intelligent Access modules.