Auth0 Social Login for Personalized AI User Experiences

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To implement social login for a personalized AI user experience using Auth0, you'll need to set up several resources and configurations with Pulumi. The key components include:

- **Auth0 Tenant**: This is your Auth0 account environment which contains your configurations.
- **Auth0 Application (Client)**: This represents your application in Auth0 and holds settings like allowed callback URLs, grant types, etc.
- **Auth0 Connection**: This defines how your app integrates with a variety of identity providers, including social identity providers like Google, Facebook, or Twitter.

Now, Auth0 itself doesn't execute personalization logic—it provides authentication services. Once a user is authenticated, you would typically use the user's identity, along with associated metadata, to deliver a personalized experience from your application logic.

With Pulumi, we can automate the provisioning of these Auth0 components. Below, you'll find a Python program for Pulumi that sets up an Auth0 client and a social connection using the `pulumi_auth0` plugin.

Before running this program with Pulumi, make sure you've already set up an Auth0 account and have the necessary domain information and management API credentials.

Here is a Pulumi program that demonstrates how to create these resources:

```python
import pulumi
import pulumi_auth0 as auth0

# Configure Auth0 provider with the domain and client credentials.
# These can ideally be set through Pulumi configuration or environment variables for security, but hard-coded here for simplicity.
auth0_provider = auth0.Provider("auth0-provider",
    domain="your_auth0_domain", # Replace with your Auth0 domain
    client_id="your_auth0_client_id", # Replace with your Auth0 Client ID
    client_secret="your_auth0_client_secret" # Replace with your Auth0 Client Secret
)

# Create an Auth0 application (client) that will allow social logins.
app = auth0.Client("my-app",
    name="My Application", # Give a name to your application
    app_type="regular_web", # Specify the type of application you are creating
    callbacks=["https://myapp.com/callback"], # Replace with your actual callback URL
    allowed_logout_urls=["https://myapp.com"], # The URL to return to after logout
    grant_types=["authorization_code", "refresh_token"], # The grant types that your application will use
    web_origins=["https://myapp.com"] # The origins that are allowed to access the application
)

# Example: Create an Auth0 connection for Google social login.
# This requires setting up a Google OAuth 2.0 app and obtaining client ID and secret.
google_connection = auth0.Connection("google-connection",
    strategy="google-oauth2",
    name="google", # Specifies the name of the connection
    enabled_clients=[app.client_id] # Associate the connection with the application created earlier
    # For the `options` field, you would supply the details of your Google OAuth 2.0 app.
)

# Example Export: URL to initiate login via the Auth0 application
initiate_login_url = pulumi.Output.concat("https://", auth0_provider.domain, "/authorize?client_id=", app.client_id, "&response_type=code&connection=google")
pulumi.export("initiate_login_url", initiate_login_url)
```

In the above program:

- We set up an `auth0.Provider` with credentials that should be obtained from your Auth0 account. Remember to replace the placeholders with your actual information.
- We define a client (`auth0.Client`) which represents your application in Auth0. Here you can set URLs for login callbacks, logout redirects, and configure which OAuth grant types your application will use.
- We create an Auth0 Connection (`auth0.Connection`) with the strategy for Google OAuth 2.0. You need to create your Google developer credentials separately and link them here. This connection will be used to facilitate logging in via Google.
- We export an initiated login URL to start the login process for your application.

Make sure to replace the placeholder values with your actual Auth0 domain, client ID, and client secret. The callback URL should be where Auth0 redirects to after a successful or failed login attempt, and it must be listed in the allowed callback URLs in your Auth0 application settings.

Run this program with Pulumi to create these Auth0 components. Once set up, you can use the `initiate_login_url` to start your login process with the social connection you've configured, which is Google OAuth 2.0 in this case.

This is a foundation for integrating social login into your personalized AI user experience. The next step would be to capture and store user metadata upon login, and use that data to guide your AI logic in delivering a personalized experience. Remember to secure your Auth0 credentials and other sensitive information using Pulumi secrets management or environmental variables instead of hardcoding them into your programs.