NASA’s Atlassian SSO Integration with miniOrange Crowd IdP | Success Story
NASA streamlined authentication across JIRA, Confluence, Bitbucket, and Bamboo by partnering with miniOrange to implement a custom SSO solution using Atlassian Crowd. This centralized identity management while ensuring secure, seamless access, tailored precisely to NASA’s infrastructure and compliance needs.
The Challenge
NASA needed a centralized SSO solution to connect multiple Atlassian applications—JIRA, Confluence, Bitbucket, and Bamboo—to their Identity Provider (Centrify) using SAML.
No Native Solution to Connect All Atlassian Applications to IDP (Centrify) for SAML SSO
NASA required a Single Sign-On (SSO) solution to simplify access to their Atlassian applications, including JIRA, Confluence, Bitbucket, and Bamboo. They wanted to use Crowd Server as a central hub for user access management and authentication.
However, none of the existing products on the Atlassian marketplace met their specific requirements. As an existing client, NASA approached miniOrange Atlassian for help.
Our Solution
miniOrange developed a custom Single Sign-On solution for NASA that included:
Atlassian Crowd SAML Single Sign-On For Connected Apps
The Crowd SAML SSO plugin was deployed to establish a SAML-based trust between Crowd and NASA’s Identity Provider. This enabled Crowd to act as the central authentication point for all connected Atlassian tools. The benefit was twofold: it preserved NASA’s existing access control model within Crowd while securely handling authentication using the SAML 2.0 protocol. This also allowed administrators to continue managing users and permissions from a single interface without requiring structural changes.
SSO Connectors for all Atlassian apps
The SSO connectors ensured that each application could redirect authentication requests through Crowd to the Identity Provider, enabling a seamless SSO experience. End users benefited from automatic login across tools without repeated authentication, while NASA’s IT team retained full control of user sessions and access privileges.
Success Outcome: Unified Access with Enhanced Security
NASA now benefits from centralized, secure access across all Atlassian tools through a single authentication flow via Crowd. User management remains fully controlled within Crowd, while integration with Centrify ensures compliance with NASA’s identity and security standards.
The seamless Crowd SSO experience allows users to navigate between JIRA, Confluence, Bitbucket, and Bamboo without repeated logins. This has improved efficiency, reduced friction, and established a scalable, future-ready authentication framework tailored to NASA’s needs.
The miniOrange SAML Single Sign-On (SSO) functions as a SAML Service Provider, enabling seamless authentication between Atlassian applications and a SAML-compliant Identity Provider.
About NASA
By choosing miniOrange, NASA successfully implemented a secure, efficient SSO solution for their Atlassian ecosystem. This case study demonstrates our ability to create custom solutions for complex enterprise environments.