Security
The documentation only applies to instances deployed on Classic Alokai.
Basic Access Authentication
Enable HTTP Basic Authentication to protect your instance with a username and password prompt for all incoming traffic.
Set or update credentials: Provide a username and password to enable Basic Auth or to change existing credentials.
Disable authentication: Remove the credentials to turn off authentication. This immediately opens the instance to unrestricted access.
Basic Auth does not restrict access from IPs on the whitelist. Requests from whitelisted IP addresses bypass authentication.
IP Whitelist
The IP Whitelist allows you to restrict access to the instance to only defined IP addresses. After configuring it, only the IP addresses listed here will be able to view and use the deployed instance.
Enabling and disabling the IP Whitelist is independent of the added IP addresses, which you can add earlier and then activate using the switch within the section.
Similarly, you can edit and remove added IP addresses without disabling the IP Whitelist functionality.
Important! If you have Basic Auth and IP Whitelist enabled simultaneously:
- For addresses on the IP Whitelist, Basic Auth is not required