Patent attributes
A method of authenticating requests to a cloud service, comprising using one or more edge proxy servers of a container execution system facilitating a cloud service to execute an authentication microservice configured for forwarding, to a login service, each login request received by the edge proxy server, via one or more network, from one or more client devices used by respective users to establish sessions with application(s) executed by application server(s) of the container execution system wherein the login service is configured to authenticate the respective user based on credentials extracted from the login request and create one or more session tokens transmitted to the one or more client device, extracting the session token(s) from each subsequent request received by the edge proxy server from the one or more client devices pertaining to the respective sessions, and authenticating the respective subsequent request by verifying the session token(s).
