# OpenID Connect Authentication for MySQL, Now Fully Open Source

DevFeed: [OpenID Connect Authentication for MySQL, Now Fully Open Source](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/openid-connect-authentication-for-mysql-now-fully-open-source-14105.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.percona.com/blog/oidc-authentication-for-percona-mysql/>)

Author: Michał Jankowski

Published: 2026-09-02T08:56:26Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Blog - Percona](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/blog-percona.md>)

Topics: [MySQL](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/mysql.md>), [OpenID connect (OIDC)](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/oidc.md>), [Authentication](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/authentication.md>), [JSON Web Tokens](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/jwt.md>), [OAuth](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/oauth.md>), [Open Source](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/open-source.md>)

Tags: [authentication](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/authentication.md>), [jwks](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/jwks.md>), [jwt](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/jwt.md>), [mysql](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/mysql.md>), [oauth](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/oauth.md>), [oauth-2-0](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/oauth-2-0.md>), [oidc](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/oidc.md>), [open-source](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/open-source.md>), [openid-connect](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/openid-connect.md>), [percona](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/percona.md>), [percona-server-for-mysql](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/percona-server-for-mysql.md>), [percona-software](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/percona-software.md>), [security](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/security.md>)

## AI overview

Percona Server for MySQL includes an open-source OpenID Connect authentication plugin for specified 8.4 and 9.7 releases. The article explains how it authenticates users through standards-compliant identity providers and describes capabilities beyond the MySQL Enterprise plugin, including JWKS signing-key synchronization, group-to-role mapping, and proxy-user support.

## Source excerpt

Percona Server for MySQL now ships with a fully open source OpenID Connect (OIDC) authentication plugin, available starting with Percona Server for MySQL 8.4.11-11 and 9.7.2-2 (not yet released as of this writing). It allows a MySQL account to authenticate against any standards-compliant Identity Provider (IdP) instead of relying on a locally stored password, closing ... Continued The post OpenID Connect Authentication for MySQL, Now Fully Open Source appeared first on Percona.