Make authentication optional and more independent for DE
We would like to suggest authentication as an optional feature in DE. It should be an configuration option to enable or disable it. By default, it's disabled, and the Login button is hidden.
Currently, user is forced to configure an authentication server connection, otherwise the DE home page won't load. This increases unnecessary complexity for those organisations who don't need to use this feature.
In addition to make authentication optional, we found that when authentication service is not available or accessible for any reason, the whole DE is non-functional. I hope this could be relaxed so that if one service is non-accessible, it should not block the entire DE.
DevOps: It means that the DevOps environments need two separate instances of the DE, one with authentication used with the DLM for previewing data, and the second one for public demo of a dissemination DE.