SCIM provisioning

This section is for administrators who want to enable System for Cross-domain Identity Management (SCIM) 2.0 for their business. It is available for Docker Business customers.

SCIM provides automated user provisioning and de-provisioning for your Docker organization or company through your identity provider (IdP). Once you enable SCIM in Docker and your IdP, any user assigned to the Docker application in the IdP is automatically provisioned in Docker and added to the organization or company.

Similarly, if a user gets unassigned from the Docker application in the IdP, this removes the user from the organization or company in Docker. SCIM also synchronizes changes made to a user's attributes in the IdP, for example the user’s first name and last name.

The following lists the supported provisioning features:

  • Creating new users
  • Push user profile updates
  • Remove users
  • Deactivate users
  • Re-activate users
  • Group mapping

Supported attributes

The following table lists the supported attributes. Note that your attribute mappings must match for SSO to prevent duplicating your members.

AttributeDescription
userNameUser's primary email address. This is the unique identifier of the user.
name.givenNameUser’s first name
name.familyNameUser’s surname
activeIndicates if a user is enabled or disabled. Can be set to false to de-provision the user.

For additional details about supported attributes and SCIM, see Docker Hub API SCIM reference.

Important

SSO uses Just-in-Time (JIT) provisioning by default. If you enable SCIM, JIT values still overwrite the attribute values set by SCIM provisioning whenever users log in. To avoid conflicts, make sure your JIT values match your SCIM values. For more information, see SSO attributes.

Tip

Optional Just-in-Time (JIT) provisioning is available when you use the Admin Console and enable SCIM. With this feature, you can avoid conflicts between SCIM and JIT by disabling JIT provisioning in your SSO connection. See SSO authentication with JIT provisioning disabled.

Enable SCIM in Docker

You must make sure you have configured SSO before you enable SCIM. Enforcing SSO isn't required.


  1. Sign in to Docker Hub.
  2. Navigate to the SSO settings page for your organization or company.
    • Organization: Select Organizations, your organization, Settings, and then Security.
    • Company: Select Organizations, your company, and then Settings.
  3. In the SSO connections table, select the Actions icon and Setup SCIM.
  4. Copy the SCIM Base URL and API Token and paste the values into your IdP.

Early Access

The Docker Admin Console is an early access product.

It's available to all company owners and organization owners. You can still manage companies and organizations in Docker Hub, but the Admin Console includes enhanced features for company-level management.

  1. Sign in to the Admin Console.
  2. Select your organization or company in the left navigation drop-down menu, and then select SSO and SCIM.
  3. In the SSO connections table, select the Actions icon and Setup SCIM.
  4. Copy the SCIM Base URL and API Token and paste the values into your IdP.

Enable SCIM in your IdP

The user interface for your IdP may differ slightly from the following steps. You can refer to the documentation for your IdP to verify.


Enable SCIM

  1. Go to the Okta admin portal.
  2. Go to the app you created when you configured your SSO connection.
  3. On the app page, go to the General tab and select Edit App Settings.
  4. Enable SCIM provisioning, then select Save.
  5. Now you can access the Provisioning tab. Navigate to this tab, then select Edit SCIM Connection.
  6. To configure SCIM in Okta, set up your connection like the following:
    • SCIM Base URL: SCIM connector base URL (copied from Docker Hub)
    • Unique identifier field for users: email
    • Supported provisioning actions: Push New Users and Push Profile Updates
    • Authentication Mode: HTTP Header
    • SCIM Bearer Token: HTTP Header Authorization Bearer Token (copied from Docker Hub)
  7. Select Test Connector Configuration.
  8. Review the test results.
  9. Select Save.

Enable synchronization

  1. Go to Provisioning > To App > Edit.
  2. Enable Create Users, Update User Attributes, and Deactivate Users.
  3. Select Save.
  4. Remove unnecessary mappings. The necessary mappings are:
    • Username
    • Given name
    • Family name
    • Email
  1. In the Azure admin portal, go to Enterprise Applications, then select the Docker application you created when you set up your SSO connection.
  2. Go to Provisioning and select Get Started.
  3. Select Automatic provisioning mode.
  4. Enter the SCIM Base URL and API Token from Docker Hub into the Admin Credentials form.
  5. Test the connection, then select Save.
  6. Go to Mappings , then select Provision Azure Active Directory Groups.
  7. Set the Enabled value to No.
  8. Select Provision Azure Active Directory Users.
  9. Remove all unsupported attributes.
  10. Select Save.
  11. Set the provisioning status to On.

See the documentation for your IdP for additional details:

Set up role mapping

You can assign roles to members in your organization in the IdP. To set up a role, you can use optional user-level attributes for the person you want to assign a role. In addition to roles, you can set an organization or team to override the default provisioning values set by the SSO connection.

Note

These mappings are supported for both SCIM and JIT provisioning. With JIT provisioning, role mapping only applies when a user is initially provisioned to the organization.

The following table lists the supported optional user-level attributes.

AttributePossible valuesConsiderations
dockerRolemember, editor, or owner. For a list of permissions for each role, see Roles and permissions.If you don't assign a role in the IdP, the value of the dockerRole attribute defaults to member. When you set the attribute, this overrides the default value.
dockerOrgorganizationName. For example, an organization named "moby" would be moby.Setting this attribute overrides the default organization configured by the SSO connection. Also, this won't add the user to the default team. If this attribute isn't set, the user is provisioned to the default organization and the default team. If set and dockerTeam is also set, this provisions the user to the team within that organization.
dockerTeamteamName. For example, a team named "developers" would be developers.Setting this attribute provisions the user to the default organization and to the specified team, instead of the SSO connection's default team. This also creates the team if it doesn't exist. You can still use group mapping to provision users to teams in multiple organizations. See Group mapping.

After you set the role in the IdP, you need to sync to push the changes to Docker.

The external namespace to use to set up these attributes is urn:ietf:params:scim:schemas:extension:docker:2.0:User.


Set up

  1. Setup SSO and SCIM first.
  2. In the Okta admin portal, go to Directory > Profile Editor and select User (Default).
  3. Select Add Attribute and configure the values for the role, org, or team you want to add. Exact naming isn't required.
  4. Return to the Profile Editor and select your application.
  5. Select Add Attribute and enter the required values. The External Name and External Namespace must be exact. The external name values for org/team/role mapping are dockerOrg, dockerTeam, and dockerRole respectively, as listed in the previous table. The external namespace is the same for all of them: urn:ietf:params:scim:schemas:extension:docker:2.0:User.
  6. After creating the attributes, go to the top and select Mappings > Okta User to YOUR APP.
  7. Go to the newly created attributes and map the variable names selected above to the external names, then select Save Mappings. If you’re using JIT provisioning, continue to the following step.
  8. Go to Applications > YOUR APP > General > SAML Settings > Edit > Step 2 and configure the mapping from the user attribute to the docker variables.

Assign roles by user

  1. Go to Directory > People > YOUR USER > Profile, then select Edit on Attributes.
  2. Update the attributes to the desired values.

Assign roles by group

  1. Go to Directory > People > YOUR GROUP > Applications > YOUR APPLICATION, then select the Edit icon.
  2. Update the attributes to the desired values.

If a user doesn't already have attributes set up, users who are added to the group will inherit these attributes upon provsioning.

Set up

  1. Setup SSO and SCIM first.
  2. In the Azure AD admin portal, go toEnterprise Apps > YOUR APP > Provisioning > Mappings > Provision Azure Active Directory Users.
  3. To set up the new mapping, check Show advanced options, then select Edit attribute options.
  4. Create new entries with the desired mapping for role, org, or group (for example, urn:ietf:params:scim:schemas:extension:docker:2.0:User:dockerRole) as a string type.
  5. Go back to Attribute Mapping for users and click Add new mapping.

Expression mapping

This implementation works best for roles, but can't be used along with organization and team mapping using the same method. With this approach, you can assign attributes at a group level, which members can inherit. This is the recommended approach for role mapping.

  1. In the Edit Attribute view, select the Expression mapping type.

  2. If you can create app roles named as the role directly (for example, owner or editor), in the Expression field, you can use SingleAppRoleAssignment([appRoleAssignments]).

    Alternatively, if you’re restricted to using app roles you have already defined (for example, My Corp Administrators) you’ll need to setup a switch for these roles. For example:

    Switch(SingleAppRoleAssignment([appRoleAssignments]), "member", "My Corp Administrator", "owner", "My Corp Editor", "editor")`
  3. Set the following fields:

    • Target attribute: urn:ietf:params:scim:schemas:extension:docker:2.0:User:dockerRole.
    • Match objects using this attribute: No
    • Apply this mapping: Always
  4. Save your configuration.

Direct mapping

Direct mapping is an alternative to expression mapping. This implementation works for all three mapping types at the same time. In order to assign users, you'll need to use the Microsoft Graph API.

  1. In the Edit Attribute view, select the Direct mapping type.

  2. Set the following fields:

    • Source attribute: choose one of the allowed extension attributes in Entra (for example, extensionAttribute1)
    • Target attribute: urn:ietf:params:scim:schemas:extension:docker:2.0:User:dockerRole
    • Match objects using this attribute: No
    • Apply this mapping: Always

    If you're setting more than one attribute, for example role and organization, you need to choose a different extension attribute for each one.

  3. Save your configuration.

Assign users

If you used expression mapping in the previous step, go to App registrations > YOUR APP > App Roles and create an app role for each Docker role. If possible, create it with a display name that is directly equivalent to the role in Docker, for example, owner instead of Owner. If set up this way, then you can use expression mapping to SingleAppRoleAssignment([appRoleAssignments]). Otherwise, a custom switch will have to be used. See Expression mapping.

To add a user:

  1. Go to YOUR APP > Users and groups. Select Add user/group.
  2. Select the user you want to add, then Select their desired role.

To add a group:

  1. Go to YOUR APP > Users and groups. Select Add user/group.
  2. Select the group you want to add, then Select the desired role for the users in that group.

If you used direct mapping in the previous step, go to Microsoft Graph Explorer and sign in to your tenant. You need to be a tenant admin to use this feature. Use the Microsoft Graph API to assign the extension attribute to the user with the value that corresponds to what the attribute was mapped to. See the Microsoft Graph API documentation on adding or updating data in extension attributes.


See the documentation for your IdP for additional details:

Disable SCIM

If SCIM is disabled, any user provisioned through SCIM will remain in the organization. Future changes for your users will not sync from your IdP. User de-provisioning is only possible when manually removing the user from the organization.


  1. Sign in to Docker Hub.
  2. Navigate to the SSO settings page for your organization or company.
    • Organization: Select Organizations, your organization, Settings, and then Security.
    • Company: Select Organizations, your company, and then Settings.
  3. In the SSO connections table, select the Actions icon.
  4. Select Disable SCIM.

Early Access

The Docker Admin Console is an early access product.

It's available to all company owners and organization owners. You can still manage companies and organizations in Docker Hub, but the Admin Console includes enhanced features for company-level management.

  1. Sign in to the Admin Console.
  2. Select your organization or company in the left navigation drop-down menu, and then select SSO and SCIM.
  3. In the SSO connections table, select the Actions icon.
  4. Select Disable SCIM.

More resources

The following videos demonstrate how to configure SCIM for your IdP.