---
title: "Get Authentication Instance"
url: https://docs.catalyst.zoho.com/en/sdk/python/v1/cloud-scale/authentication/get-component-instance/
description: "This page describes the method to create a component instance in your Python application with sample code snippets."
last_updated: 2025-03-28T12:54:49Z
service: Cloud Scale
type: general
related_links:
  - name: "Authentication Help"
    url: /en/cloud-scale/help/authentication/introduction
  - name: "SDK Scopes"
    url: /en/sdk/python/v1/sdk-scopes
---

# Authentication

[Catalyst Cloud Scale Authentication](https://docs.catalyst.zoho.com/en/cloud-scale/help/authentication/introduction) features in Python SDK help you perform user authentication-specific operations, such as adding a new user, fetching details of the current user or all users, resetting the password of an existing user account, and  deleting a user.

### Get a Component Instance

A component instance is an object that can be used to access the predefined configurations specific to a particular component. You can create a component instance for Authentication to execute various user management actions, which will not fire a server-side call. 

The `app` reference used in the code below is the [Python object](https://docs.catalyst.zoho.com/en/sdk/python/v1/setup/#initializing-the-sdk) returned as a response during SDK initialization. You can create a new `authentication_service`instance as shown below :

```python
#Get Authentication component instance
authentication_service = app.authentication()

```

This component instance will be used as shown in the various Authentication sections of the Python SDK documentation.