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title: Best practices · Cloudflare Learning Paths
description: Most customers have a heterogeneous private application portfolio;
  some are home-built, some are internal managed services, some have SSO
  integrations available, and some rely on HTML or other forms of
  authentication. With that in mind, we recommend that you mix-and-match
  onboarding solutions to fit the needs of each individual application. As shown
  in the table below, you can bucket applications into a series of stack-ranked
  categories that prioritize ease of implementation and total organizational
  impact.
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Most customers have a heterogeneous private application portfolio; some are home-built, some are internal managed services, some have SSO integrations available, and some rely on HTML or other forms of authentication. With that in mind, we recommend that you mix-and-match [onboarding solutions](https://developers.cloudflare.com/learning-paths/clientless-access/migrate-applications/integrated-sso/#potential-solutions) to fit the needs of each individual application. As shown in the table below, you can bucket applications into a series of stack-ranked categories that prioritize ease of implementation and total organizational impact.

| Application type | Recommendation | Outcome |
| - | - | - |
| Private web apps without integrated SSO | [Present applications exclusively on Cloudflare domains.](https://developers.cloudflare.com/learning-paths/clientless-access/migrate-applications/integrated-sso/#recommended-solution) | Users access applications on new domains delegated to Cloudflare and instantly apply SSO through Cloudflare integration. |
| Private web apps with integrated SSO | **If SSO configuration is possible:** [Present applications exclusively on Cloudflare domains.](https://developers.cloudflare.com/learning-paths/clientless-access/migrate-applications/integrated-sso/#recommended-solution) **If SSO configuration is not possible:** Present applications on existing internal domains with identical external domains delegated to Cloudflare | Users access internal web services on the same or new domains from Cloudflare. If configured, the SSO provider transparently redirects users from internal domains to Cloudflare authoritative external domains. |
| New critical internal applications being developed | [Present applications exclusively on Cloudflare domains.](https://developers.cloudflare.com/learning-paths/clientless-access/migrate-applications/integrated-sso/#recommended-solution) | Developers can programmatically generate (or be given) new public hostnames on Cloudflare to represent the redirects for their application in SAML or OIDC integrations. |
| New microservices being developed | [Present applications exclusively on Cloudflare domains.](https://developers.cloudflare.com/learning-paths/clientless-access/migrate-applications/integrated-sso/#recommended-solution) Optionally, [consume the Access JWT](https://developers.cloudflare.com/learning-paths/clientless-access/migrate-applications/consume-jwt/#consume-the-cloudflare-jwt) as authentication in internal applications. | Developers can inject the JWT authorization mechanism directly into the codebase of their application and [use Terraform](https://developers.cloudflare.com/learning-paths/clientless-access/terraform/) to automatically build Cloudflare hostnames and policies for their applications. |
| Internal API endpoints (including internal applications with dependencies on external/internal APIs) | Present internal APIs on Cloudflare domains, and build Access policies that accept [service tokens](https://developers.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-one/access-controls/service-credentials/service-tokens/) alongside user-oriented policies. | Automated systems can authenticate via a [service token in the request header](https://developers.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-one/access-controls/service-credentials/service-tokens/#connect-your-service-to-access), while end users continue to login through their IdP. |
