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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

Integrating with Java applications

Frameworks, web containers, and application servers that provide support for OpenID Connect and OAuth2 as part of their offerings should make your life a lot easier, since the integration is already available to your application and there is no need to add any other dependencies.

Leveraging what is already in your technology stack is usually the best choice. But that will not always be the case.

Keycloak also provides client-side implementations that have support for some of the most common frameworks, web containers, and application servers available. Also known as Keycloak adapters, these implementations are targeted at people looking for a deeper integration with Keycloak.

In the next few sections, we will look at the different options you can choose from so that you can pick the one that works best for your applications.

Using Quarkus

Quarkus provides an OpenID Connect compliant extension called quarkus-oidc. It provides a simple...