New Clients Register with BOTH Dex and IdP?

[PeterBParker]

Hello! From my time in the documentation and experimenting with Dex, it seems like I have to add a client (either to the staticClients in the config, or via the gRPC API) to Dex and the IdP that Dex is connected to. Is that right? Why can't a client send a request to Dex and Dex just look it up in the IdP it's configured for?

[nabokihms]

I don't think I fully understand the question, but I will try to explain.

Dex is a provider itself. It implements all OIDC provider-required capabilities. At the same time, Dex can be connected to many other providers that use different protocols and standards (other than OIDC).