Configuration Data

Configuration data models the information for Clients and Resources.

Stores

Store interfaces are designed to abstract accessing the configuration data. The stores used in Duende IdentityServer are:

• Client store for Client data.
• CORS policy service for CORS support. Given that this is so closely tied to the Client configuration data, the CORS policy service is considered one of the configuration stores.
• Resource store for IdentityResource, ApiResource, and ApiScope data.
• Identity Provider store for IdentityProvider data.

Registering Custom Stores

Custom implementations of the stores must be registered in the ASP.NET Core service provider. There are convenience methods for registering these. For example:

Program.cs

builder.Services.AddIdentityServer()
    .AddClientStore<YourCustomClientStore>()
    .AddCorsPolicyService<YourCustomCorsPolicyService>()
    .AddResourceStore<YourCustomResourceStore>()
    .AddIdentityProviderStore<YourCustomIdentityProviderStore>();

Caching Configuration Data

Configuration data is used frequently during request processing. If this data is loaded from a database or other external store, then it might be expensive to frequently re-load the same data.

v8.0+

Duende IdentityServer provides convenience methods to enable caching data from the various stores. The caching implementation is built on Microsoft’s HybridCache from the Microsoft.Extensions.Caching.Hybrid package, registered as a keyed service under ServiceProviderKeys.ConfigurationStoreCache. For example:

Program.cs

builder.Services.AddIdentityServer()
    .AddClientStore<YourCustomClientStore>()
    .AddCorsPolicyService<YourCustomCorsPolicyService>()
    .AddResourceStore<YourCustomResourceStore>()
    .AddInMemoryCaching()
    .AddClientStoreCache<YourCustomClientStore>()
    .AddCorsPolicyCache<YourCustomCorsPolicyService>()
    .AddResourceStoreCache<YourCustomResourceStore>()
    .AddIdentityProviderStoreCache<YourCustomIdentityProviderStore>();

For Entity Framework users, there is a convenience method AddConfigurationStoreCache() that enables caching for all configuration stores at once:

Program.cs

builder.Services.AddIdentityServer()
    .AddConfigurationStore(...)
    .AddConfigurationStoreCache();

The duration of the data in the default cache is configurable on the IdentityServerOptions. For example:

Program.cs

builder.Services.AddIdentityServer(options => {
    options.Caching.ClientStoreExpiration = TimeSpan.FromMinutes(5);
    options.Caching.ResourceStoreExpiration = TimeSpan.FromMinutes(5);
})
    .AddClientStore<YourCustomClientStore>()
    .AddCorsPolicyService<YourCustomCorsPolicyService>()
    .AddResourceStore<YourCustomResourceStore>()
    .AddInMemoryCaching()
    .AddClientStoreCache<YourCustomClientStore>()
    .AddCorsPolicyCache<YourCustomCorsPolicyService>()
    .AddResourceStoreCache<YourCustomResourceStore>();

Further customization of the cache is possible:

• The caching stores use a keyed HybridCache instance registered under ServiceProviderKeys.ConfigurationStoreCache. You can customize the HybridCache behavior by configuring the keyed service registration (e.g., adding a distributed cache backend via IDistributedCache).
• By default, only the L1 (in-memory) cache tier is used. To enable L2 (distributed) caching, register an IDistributedCache implementation (e.g., Redis via AddStackExchangeRedisCache). HybridCache will automatically use it as the L2 tier.

v7.0

Duende IdentityServer provides convenience methods to enable caching data from the various stores. The caching implementation relies upon an ICache<T> service and must also be added to the ASP.NET Core service provider. For example:

Program.cs

builder.Services.AddIdentityServer()
    .AddClientStore<YourCustomClientStore>()
    .AddCorsPolicyService<YourCustomCorsPolicyService>()
    .AddResourceStore<YourCustomResourceStore>()
    .AddInMemoryCaching()
    .AddClientStoreCache<YourCustomClientStore>()
    .AddCorsPolicyCache<YourCustomCorsPolicyService>()
    .AddResourceStoreCache<YourCustomResourceStore>()
    .AddIdentityProviderStoreCache<YourCustomIdentityProviderStore>();

The duration of the data in the default cache is configurable on the IdentityServerOptions. For example:

Program.cs

builder.Services.AddIdentityServer(options => {
    options.Caching.ClientStoreExpiration = TimeSpan.FromMinutes(5);
    options.Caching.ResourceStoreExpiration = TimeSpan.FromMinutes(5);
})
    .AddClientStore<YourCustomClientStore>()
    .AddCorsPolicyService<YourCustomCorsPolicyService>()
    .AddResourceStore<YourCustomResourceStore>()
    .AddInMemoryCaching()
    .AddClientStoreCache<YourCustomClientStore>()
    .AddCorsPolicyCache<YourCustomCorsPolicyService>()
    .AddResourceStoreCache<YourCustomResourceStore>();

Further customization of the cache is possible:

• If you wish to customize the caching behavior for the specific configuration objects, you can replace the ICache<T> service implementation in the dependency injection system.
• The default implementation of the ICache<T> itself relies upon the IMemoryCache interface (and MemoryCache implementation) provided by .NET. If you wish to customize the in-memory caching behavior, you can replace the IMemoryCache implementation in the dependency injection system.

In-Memory Stores

The various in-memory configuration APIs allow for configuring IdentityServer from an in-memory list of the various configuration objects. These in-memory collections can be hard-coded in the hosting application, or could be loaded dynamically from a configuration file or a database. By design, though, these collections are only created when the hosting application is starting up.

Use of these configuration APIs are designed for use when prototyping, developing, and/or testing where it is not necessary to dynamically consult database at runtime for the configuration data. This style of configuration might also be appropriate for production scenarios if the configuration rarely changes, or it is not inconvenient to require restarting the application if the value must be changed.