JasonS.16109 (Customer) asked a question.
I have over 170 ServiceNow instances. I would like to leverage the API and the existing Application template to set up the apps, add the groups ... add the users ... etc.
Is there a method in the API which would allow me to use the ServiceNow App Template?
I believe it is, because one of our engineering teams is doing this exact thing with AWS tenants. I'm not privy to the details of what they're doing, but they're using API calls to automatically create new AWS integrations in our Okta org whenever they spin up a new AWS environment. And they also assign one or more groups to the integration, assuming the group(s) exist in Okta (they sometimes create new AD groups and have to wait for them to be imported before they can be assigned.)
I created an Okta-mastered service account for this purpose, gave that account admin rights to all AWS integrations (this team owns all of our AWS environments), then logged into Okta with that account and generated an API token. I gave the API token to that team so they can use it in their automation. I know they use tools like Chef, Jenkins, Octopus, and PowerShell, but that's as much as I know about how it works.
The one thing they were unable to automate is the process that retrieves the latest role information from AWS. That's a button in the Okta console that has no API equivalent.
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I believe it is, because one of our engineering teams is doing this exact thing with AWS tenants. I'm not privy to the details of what they're doing, but they're using API calls to automatically create new AWS integrations in our Okta org whenever they spin up a new AWS environment. And they also assign one or more groups to the integration, assuming the group(s) exist in Okta (they sometimes create new AD groups and have to wait for them to be imported before they can be assigned.)
I created an Okta-mastered service account for this purpose, gave that account admin rights to all AWS integrations (this team owns all of our AWS environments), then logged into Okta with that account and generated an API token. I gave the API token to that team so they can use it in their automation. I know they use tools like Chef, Jenkins, Octopus, and PowerShell, but that's as much as I know about how it works.
The one thing they were unable to automate is the process that retrieves the latest role information from AWS. That's a button in the Okta console that has no API equivalent.