--- title: Securing Microservices with JWT | daily.dev description: This guide explains how to secure an 'Order Management Service' (RESTful service) with JWT Auth using Ballerina. JWT helps to pass the end-user context across... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/securing-microservices-with-jwt-ta-i2i4bf twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Securing Microservices with JWT | daily.dev og:description: This guide explains how to secure an 'Order Management Service' (RESTful service) with JWT Auth using Ballerina. JWT helps to pass the end-user context across... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/securing-microservices-with-jwt-ta-i2i4bf og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/ta_i2i4Bf.png og:image:alt: Securing Microservices with JWT og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Securing Microservices with JWT **[Ballerina](https://daily.dev/sources/ballerina)** · [@ldclakmal](https://daily.dev/ldclakmal) · 9 min read · 105 upvotes · 2 comments ## Summary This guide explains how to secure an 'Order Management Service' (RESTful service) with JWT Auth using Ballerina. JWT helps to pass the end-user context across microservices in a manner that can’t be forged. Because the claims set of the JWT is signed by the STS, no microservice can change its content without invalidating its signature. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@yasassri** · 1 upvotes > Great article. 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