diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index a6c4b618..8a95e855 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -1,9 +1,9 @@ -dex -===== +# dex + [![Docker Repository on Quay.io](https://quay.io/repository/coreos/dex/status?token=2e772caf-ea17-45d5-8455-8fcf39dae6e1 "Docker Repository on Quay.io")](https://quay.io/repository/coreos/dex) -dex is a federated identity management service. It provides OpenID Connect (OIDC) to users, and can proxy to multiple remote identity providers (IdP) to drive actual authentication, as well as managing local username/password credentials. +dex is a federated identity management service. It provides OpenID Connect (OIDC) and OAuth 2.0 to users, and can proxy to multiple remote identity providers (IdP) to drive actual authentication, as well as managing local username/password credentials. We named the project 'dex' because it is a central index of users that other pieces of software can authenticate against.