Contentful Integration Guide

Configuring single sign-on

You can configure PingFederate to act as an identity provider for Contentful, allowing users to access Contentful through single sign-on (SSO).

About this task

SSO integration is an optional part of this integration. If you only want to configure provisioning to Contentful, skip these steps.

Steps

  1. To allow PingFederate to check user credentials against the datastore that you created in Enabling provisioning and single sign-on in PingFederate, create a password credential validator. Learn more in Password Credential Validators and Configuring the LDAP Username Password Credential Validator in the PingFederate documentation.

  2. To provide users with a sign-on page, complete the steps in Creating an HTML Form Adapter instance.

  3. To make it easier to create a connection to Contentful, complete the steps in Downloading the Contentful SAML metadata file.

  4. To configure PingFederate for SSO to Contentful, complete the steps in Creating a single sign-on connection.

  5. To make it easier to configure Contentful, complete the steps in Exporting SAML metadata from PingFederate.

  6. To configure Contentful to authorize sign-on events from PingFederate,