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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

Summary

In this chapter, you learned about one of the main aspects of Keycloak: extensibility. You learned that Keycloak not only helps you to deploy IAM to your ecosystem but also adapts IAM to your needs.

To understand this, you were taught the basics of how to change the look and feel of a server using themes and how to implement custom providers using some of the available SPIs. Although you were presented with only a few examples of how to extend Keycloak, you should be able to leverage what you learned from this chapter to extend Keycloak using any SPI.

In the next chapter, you will look at some security best practices and considerations when using Keycloak.