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Keycloak - Identity and Access Management for Modern Applications - Second Edition

By : Stian Thorgersen, Pedro Igor Silva
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Book Image

Keycloak - Identity and Access Management for Modern Applications - Second Edition

4.8 (5)
By: Stian Thorgersen, Pedro Igor Silva

Overview of this book

The second edition of Keycloak - Identity and Access Management for Modern Applications is an updated, comprehensive introduction to Keycloak and its updates. In this new edition, you will learn how to use the latest distribution of Keycloak. The recent versions of Keycloak are now based on Quarkus, which brings a new and improved user experience and a new admin console with a higher focus on usability. You will see how to leverage Spring Security, instead of the Keycloak Spring adapter while using Keycloak 22. As you progress, you’ll understand the new Keycloak distribution and explore best practices in using OAuth. Finally, you'll cover general best practices and other information on how to protect your applications. By the end of this new edition, you’ll have learned how to install and manage the latest version of Keycloak to secure new and existing applications using the latest features.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
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Index

Changing the look and feel

One of the main customization hooks – and probably what people use most – is changing Keycloak’s built-in themes to fit with your branding and respect your UI and UX requirements.

Keycloak provides an amazingly simple experience to change themes and allows you to change most – if not all – of its UI, from the end user-facing pages to the administration console itself.

In this topic, you will learn about the basics of theming by going through examples of how to change the look and feel of the login page. By understanding these basics, you should then be able to apply the same concepts to any other UI you want to customize.

This is probably one of the most documented features of Keycloak. Consider looking at the documentation available at https://www.keycloak.org/docs/latest/server_development/#_themes.

Understanding themes

Just like any other feature in Keycloak, themes are backed by their...