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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 2: Securing Your First Application

In this chapter, you will learn how to secure your first application with Keycloak. To make things a bit more interesting, the sample application you will be running consists of two parts, a frontend web application and a backend REST API. This will show you how a user can authenticate to the frontend, and also how the frontend is able to securely invoke the backend.

By the end of this chapter, you will have a basic understanding of how applications can be secured by Keycloak by leveraging OpenID Connect.

In this chapter, we're going to cover the following main topics:

  • Understanding the sample application
  • Running the application
  • Understanding how to log in to the application
  • Securely invoking the backend REST API