# Introduction

## What is Identity Center

Identity Center is a unified identity management service provided by Huawei Cloud, supporting unified identity authentication and authorization management across clouds and applications. Identity Center provides centralized user management, group management, permission policy configuration, and other functions, helping enterprises achieve unified identity management and access control, meeting enterprise-level identity management and compliance requirements.

Identity Center service supports integration with multiple identity sources, including local directories, external identity providers, etc., providing security features such as Single Sign-On (SSO) and Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA). Through Identity Center service, enterprises can achieve unified identity management across clouds and applications, improve the efficiency and security of identity management, and ensure the safe and stable operation of business systems.

## Best Practices Overview

This section provides best practice examples for using Terraform to automatically deploy and manage Huawei Cloud Identity Center, helping you understand how to efficiently manage cloud Identity Center resources using Infrastructure as Code (IaC).

Through the best practices in this section, you can learn the main deployment processes for Identity Center resources. These best practices will help you quickly get started with automated Identity Center deployment and lay a solid foundation for subsequent group, user, and permission management operations.

## Best Practices List

This section contains the following best practices:

* [Deploy Group](https://hcbp.gitbook.io/huaweicloud-provider/best-practices/identity-center/group) - Introduces how to use Terraform to automatically deploy Identity Center groups, including querying or creating Identity Center instances, registering regions (optional), and creating groups.
* [Deploy Instance Configuration](https://hcbp.gitbook.io/huaweicloud-provider/best-practices/identity-center/instance_configuration) - Introduces how to use Terraform to automatically deploy Identity Center instance configuration, including querying or creating Identity Center instances, registering regions (optional), and configuring SSO configuration.
* [Deploy Password Policy](https://hcbp.gitbook.io/huaweicloud-provider/best-practices/identity-center/password_policy) - Introduces how to use Terraform to automatically deploy Identity Center password policies, including querying or creating Identity Center instances, registering regions (optional), and configuring password policies.

## Reference Materials

* [Huawei Cloud Identity Center Product Documentation](https://support.huaweicloud.com/identity-center/index.html)
* [Terraform Official Documentation](https://www.terraform.io/docs/index.html)
