User management

In this tutorial, you will learn how to manage user as part of API Management using Traefik Hub as IdP.

Introduction¶

User and user group management is an important aspect of API Management that involves the creation, modification, and deletion of user accounts and groups in order to manage access and permissions to APIs, API Gateways and API Portals.

User¶

Adding user¶

Select Users, here you will see all existing user, and you can validate and adjust their permissions and groups.

Select Add user in the right top corner to add a new user.

Select user management — User management UI

Fill out the form, all fields are required.

First name
Last name
Email
Company
Groups

Every user has to be part of a user group, it is not possible to assign an individual user to an API or API collection.

You can assign the user to an already existing user group, or you can create a new one.

Choose an existing user group and select Save.

If you want to create a new user group, choose Create new User Group.

Fill out the name of the new user group and select Create.

Now you will see that the new user is part of the user group, select Save to finish the process.

User is part of a user group — The user is part of a user group

Edit user¶

To change user details—such as a user’s email, or contact information—edit the user account.

Select Users, here you will see all existing user, and you can validate and adjust their permissions and groups.

Select the user you want to edit.

This will show you the overview about the user. Now select Edit in the top right corner.

Adjust the settings and select Save.

Delete user¶

To delete a user.

Select Users, here you will see all existing user, select the user you want to delete.

Now select Delete User in the left bottom.

Choose the user you want o delete — Choose the user you want to delete

Confirm the removal by selecting Yes, delete it.

Reset password¶

Select Users, here you will see all existing user, select the user where you want to reset the password.

Select Reset password

Copy the link

This will change in the future!

User groups¶

Create a group¶

Select Groups, here you will see an overview about all user groups.

To create a new user group, select Add group on the right top corner.

Delete a group¶

It is only possible to remove empty groups!

Select the trash icon on the right site to remove a group.

Summary¶

In this tutorial, you learned how to:

Add, edit and delete user
Create and delete user groups

What's next¶

Learn how to set up token to authorize API consumers