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

By : Stian Thorgersen, Pedro Igor Silva
4.8 (5)
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 several important aspects of deploying Keycloak securely into production. You learned how important it is to secure the database that’s used by Keycloak, as well as communication between nodes. You also learned how important it is to protect user accounts from being compromised, as well as how important it is to keep information about your users secure. Finally, you got some insight into what it means to secure an application by focusing on web applications, as well as how to utilize OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect to secure your applications.

You should now have a good understanding of how to securely run Keycloak in production, as well as an idea of where you can start learning more about securing your applications.

This is the final chapter of this book. We hope you have enjoyed this book and have gained a good understanding of Keycloak and how you can utilize it to help secure your applications. While this book has not covered...