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Integrate with Zendesk

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What is Zendesk​

Zendesk is a customer support and ticketing platform.

-- https://zendesk.com

Preparation​

The following placeholders are used in this guide:

  • company.zendesk.com is the FQDN of your Zendesk company portal.
  • authentik.company is the FQDN of the authentik installation.
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This documentation lists only the settings that you need to change from their default values. Be aware that any changes other than those explicitly mentioned in this guide could cause issues accessing your application.

Configuration methods​

Zendesk can be configured to use either OIDC or SAML. This guide covers both methods.

authentik configuration​

To support the integration of Zendesk with authentik, you need to create an application/provider pair in authentik.

Create an application and provider in authentik​

  1. Log in to authentik as an administrator and open the authentik Admin interface.

  2. Navigate to Applications > Applications and click Create with Provider to create an application and provider pair. (Alternatively you can first create a provider separately, then create the application and connect it with the provider.)

    • Application: provide a descriptive name, an optional group for the type of application, the policy engine mode, and optional UI settings.
    • Choose a Provider type: select OAuth2/OpenID Connect as the provider type.
    • Configure the Provider: provide a name (or accept the auto-provided name), the authorization flow to use for this provider, and the following required configurations.
      • Note the Client ID, Client Secret, and slug values because they will be required later.
      • Set a Strict redirect URI to https://company.zendesk.com/access/oidc/callback.
      • Select any available signing key.
    • Configure Bindings (optional): you can create a binding (policy, group, or user) to manage the listing and access to applications on a user's My applications page.

  3. Click Submit to save the new application and provider.

Zendesk configuration​

  1. Log in to Zendesk as an administrator.

  2. Navigate to Security > Single sign-on (SSO) > Create SSO configuration and click OpenID Connect.

    • Configuration name: authentik
    • Client ID: enter the client ID from authentik.
    • Client secret: enter the client secret from authentik.
    • Scopes: openid profile email
    • Issuer: https://authentik.company/application/o/<application_slug>/
    • Authentication mode: PKCE
    • Issuer url: https://authentik.company/application/o/<application_slug>/
    • Show button when users sign in: enabled
    • Button text: authentik

  3. Click Submit.

Configuration verification​

To confirm that authentik is properly configured with Zendesk, log out, then attempt to log back in by visit your Zendesk portal and clicking Log in with authentik.

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