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...