Authentication

Managed IVK Match

Managed endpoints require credentials issued for your IVK Match account. Keep those credentials in your game backend or its secret store, never in a game client or a queue configuration file. The endpoint and credential provisioning details are supplied during onboarding.

Use the supplied SDK’s client configuration to attach credentials to calls. If you call an endpoint directly, use the authentication scheme supplied with those credentials; do not assume that an unauthenticated local or self-hosted endpoint behaves the same way.

Self-hosted IVK Match

The self-hosted server does not provide application authentication or tenant isolation. Anything that can reach its API can act on its queues. Its operator must protect the API and dashboard with network policy, private ingress, and separate deployments for separate tenants. The self-hosting documentation covers the deployment controls in detail.