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Environments: Within Britive, these would correspond to a Kubernetes cluster. The cluster configurations and Britive profiles are managed at this level.
Environment Groups are a logical collection of environments. This could be a geographical region or a department within an organization.
Each Kubernetes application would typically be a Kubernetes platform within an organization’s environment. for example GKE, EKS, etc.
Britive Profiles are to be created within an Environment.
OpenID Connect (OIDC) connection is leveraged to send the authentication and authorization information to the cluster via a signed JSON Web Token (JWT). In the following sections, we will discuss how an OIDC trust relationship can be configured between Britive and a Kubernetes platform.
JSON Web Token (JWT) is an open standard (RFC 7519) that defines a compact and self-contained way for securely transmitting information between parties as a JSON object. This information can be verified and trusted because it is digitally signed. In its compact form, JSON Web Tokens consist of three parts separated by dots (.), which are: Header, Payload, and Signature.

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