Update: One of your competitors has released native SAML v2.0 SSO/SLO support via the following IdP (which is also capable of many other authentication methods being discussed here):
For most use cases, using an authentication proxy does no good if you still need to make an LDAP endpoint available for authorization.
I see this as a barrier to adoption at large organizations that require SAML auth for production systems hosted in public clouds and I am hoping that in consideration of that and the recent adoption of this functionality by competing solutions will allow for this to receive a higher priority within the Elasticsearch project and that you will share this information with your project managers.
I also believe that this needs to be implemented in Sheild per:
Can you please provide us with a status update on this work? An ETA would be excellent.
Thank you.
-- Rob Frey