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Keycloak - Identity and Access Management for Modern Applications

By : Stian Thorgersen, Pedro Igor Silva
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Keycloak - Identity and Access Management for Modern Applications

By: Stian Thorgersen, Pedro Igor Silva

Overview of this book

Implementing authentication and authorization for applications can be a daunting experience, often leaving them exposed to security vulnerabilities. Keycloak is an open-source solution for identity management and access management for modern applications, which can make a world of difference if you learn how to use it. Keycloak, helping you get started with using it and securing your applications. Complete with hands-on tutorials, best practices, and self-assessment questions, this easy-to-follow guide will show you how to secure a sample application and then move on to securing different application types. As you progress, you will understand how to configure and manage Keycloak as well as how to leverage some of its more advanced capabilities. Finally, you'll gain insights into securely using Keycloak in production. By the end of this book, you will have learned how to install and manage Keycloak as well as how to secure new and existing applications.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
1
Section 1: Getting Started with Keycloak
4
Section 2: Securing Applications with Keycloak
11
Section 3: Configuring and Managing Keycloak
17
Section 4: Security Considerations

Chapter 10: Managing Users

In the previous chapters, you learned how to deploy, run, and use Keycloak to authenticate and authorize users in your applications. You also learned how to manage users in Keycloak to run some of the examples in this book.

In this chapter, we are going to take a closer look at the capabilities provided by Keycloak that are related to identity management and federation, such as how users are created and managed, how users can manage their own accounts, how to manage credentials, and how to integrate with different identity stores and identity providers to authenticate users and fetch their information through open protocols such as OpenID Connect, Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML), and Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP).

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Managing local users
  • Integrating with LDAP and Active Directory
  • Integrating with social identity providers
  • Integrating with third-party identity...