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Keycloak - Identity and Access Management for Modern Applications

By : Stian Thorgersen, Pedro Igor Silva
Book Image

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 9

  1. Yes. It is recommended that you have an active-passive or active-active database so that in the event of failures, you can easily switch database instances. Note, however, that Keycloak keeps as much data as possible in caches, where reads should not be impacted at all depending on how hot the caches are (how much data is cached). Writes, however, will fail until the connection is re-established.

    Keycloak also supports setting some useful configuration options to improve failover in the event of network failures. You might want to enable background validation of connections to make sure available connections are usable, validate connections prior to obtaining them from the connection pool, or even configure the pool to fail fast when a connection is terminated to avoid validating and iterating over all connections in the pool.

  2. No. The default configuration by default uses IP multicast to broadcast messages across nodes and form a cluster. The proper configuration...