Installing
Deploy Auth and Identity, configure their dependencies, and confirm the services are reachable and healthy.
- Who does it: Platform operator
- When: Once per environment, before any product enforces access.
Enabling
Turn on Access Manager enforcement inside each Lerian product or plugin by setting the Auth environment variables in that product’s
.env.
- Who does it: Product operator
- When: After installation, per product.
Using
Perform day-to-day access operations such as requesting tokens, managing users and groups, configuring MFA, and calling protected APIs.
- Who does it: Administrators, end users, integrations
- When: Continuously, after the environment is up.
In short
- Installation puts the gate in place.
- Enabling tells each product to check the gate.
- Using is everything that happens at the gate from then on.
If a Lerian product is enabled before Access Manager is installed and healthy, every protected request will fail. Install first, validate, then enable.