Zeebe and Connectors require Identity. What happens to the License then?

mfmanca · February 29, 2024, 5:42pm

Hello community,
since 8.2.x Zeebe seem to require Identity (I’ve read it was for the authentication of gRPC calls).
The same happened to Connectors.

What happens then to the License if we now have to include Identity ?
Is it still possible to use Zeebe in Production (without giving the possibility to customers to create/modify/deploy BPMN processes) ?

nathan.loding · February 29, 2024, 6:46pm

Hi @mfmanca - Zeebe does not require Identity; you can run Zeebe without Identity.

mfmanca · March 1, 2024, 7:28am

Thank you for your quick reply.
So I probably misunderstood the information contained in this ticket…

github.com/camunda/zeebe

Release: Integrate update of identity version into the release process

opened 12:14PM - 23 May 23 UTC

closed 09:45AM - 06 Jul 23 UTC

megglos

kind/toil area/maintainability version:8.3.0-alpha2 version:8.3.0

**Description** Since the merge of https://github.com/camunda/zeebe/pull/12001 …zeebe depends on identity for all 8.2.0 release and later. As an identity release may happen right before the zeebe release we need to add a step to the release process to make sure the identity version is the same as the zeebe version or if not update it. Right now patch level version of zeebe and identity are aligned, so if zeebe 8.2.5 is released the identity version should be 8.2.5 as well. This could be automated. ```[tasklist] ### Tasks - [ ] https://github.com/camunda/zeebe/issues/12920 - [ ] https://github.com/zeebe-io/zeebe-engineering-processes/issues/312 ```

nathan.loding · March 1, 2024, 3:47pm

@mfmanca - ah, I see the confusion. That is in reference to the identity-sdk package, which is a code dependency of Zeebe so that it can interact with Identity if enabled. That ticket is to make sure versions are kept in sync. However, installing and running Identity is not required.