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Eric Salituro
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Eric Salituro is currently a Software Engineering Manger with the Enterprise Data and Analytics Platform team at Zendesk. He has an IT career spanning over 30 years, over 20 of which were in the motion picture industry working as a pipeline technical director and software developer for innovative and creative studios like DreamWorks, Digital Domain, and Pixar. Before moving to Zendesk, he worked at Pixar helping to manage and maintain their production render farm as a Senior Software Developer. Among his accomplishments there was the development of a Python API toolkit for Grafana aimed at streamlining the creation of rendering metrics dashboards
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Authenticating with OpenLDAP

Let’s start with one of the more venerable authentication schemes available today: Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP), originally developed in the early 1990s. While it is often used to store user information for authentication purposes, it can also serve all kinds of directory information, including user groups, hostnames, network addresses, and even office addresses and phone numbers.

In this section, we’ll set up a simple directory using the OpenLDAP implementation and configure Grafana to bind to the OpenLDAP server to look up users and teams. This process can be a little bit complicated, but we’ll go through it step by step. It is beyond the scope of this book to go through the details of setting up and maintaining a production LDAP directory, but I will endeavor to explain things in some detail as we go along. If you are looking to integrate your Grafana server with an existing LDAP installation, this should give...

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Eric Salituro

Eric Salituro is currently a Software Engineering Manger with the Enterprise Data and Analytics Platform team at Zendesk. He has an IT career spanning over 30 years, over 20 of which were in the motion picture industry working as a pipeline technical director and software developer for innovative and creative studios like DreamWorks, Digital Domain, and Pixar. Before moving to Zendesk, he worked at Pixar helping to manage and maintain their production render farm as a Senior Software Developer. Among his accomplishments there was the development of a Python API toolkit for Grafana aimed at streamlining the creation of rendering metrics dashboards
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