About the IAM Shop Microservice

EmpowerID offers a centralized platform called the "IAM Shop" for users to request access to roles, groups, applications, licenses, and other resources made available by the organization. Users can view their current access and request additional resources by adding them to their shopping cart and submitting the request. The shopping cart contents are preserved even if the user navigates away from the IAM Shop.

Figure 1 below shows the main flow for users shopping for resources in the IAM Shop.

Figure 1: IAM Shop shopping flow

Deployment Model

Microservices are small, decoupled software modules that run independently and communicate with each other using specific API contracts. The EmpowerID IAM Shop Microservice follows this pattern, which allows the IAM Shop to be deployed to IIS or hosted in Azure decoupled from the EmpowerID platform. The deployment model for Azure hosting is depicted in Figure 2 below. In the figure, users can shop for licenses the organization has in Azure.