Free LDAP-as-a-Service

Thankfully, LDAP-as-a-Service does exist, available as a part of the JumpCloud Directory Platform. JumpCloud is the world’s first cloud directory service. Our platform equips IT admins with the ability to manage all users and their access to virtually any IT resources including systems, applications, networks, file servers, infrastructure, etc. JumpCloud is the next generation of Active Directory and LDAP, and enables managed end users to leverage a single secure set of credentials to access all of these resources.

JumpCloud’s LDAP-as-a-Service utilizes a global network of pre-configured OpenLDAP servers and completely alleviates the burden of implementing LDAP. What once took hours of work can now take a few simple clicks in JumpCloud’s browser-based admin console. IT admins simply point their users towards LDAP-as-a-Service, and JumpCloud takes care of the rest.

This project is a lightweight authentication server that provides an opinionated, simplified LDAP interface for authentication. It integrates with many backends, from KeyCloak to Authelia to Nextcloud and more!

The goal is not to provide a full LDAP server; if you're interested in that, check out OpenLDAP. This server is a user management system that is:

• simple to setup (no messing around with slapd),
• simple to manage (friendly web UI),
• low resources,
• opinionated with basic defaults so you don't have to understand the subtleties of LDAP.

It mostly targets self-hosting servers, with open-source components like Nextcloud, Airsonic and so on that only support LDAP as a source of external authentication.

For more features (OAuth/OpenID support, reverse proxy, ...) you can install other components (KeyCloak, Authelia, ...) using this server as the source of truth for users, via LDAP.