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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

Chapter 10

  1. Yes. As we will see in the following chapters, Keycloak provides a Service Provider Interface (SPI) that allows you to integrate not only with databases but with any other form of identity store.
  2. No. In addition to storing information from LDAP in its own database, Keycloak also caches data for entries that have been imported from LDAP. You have complete control over how information is cached and when it expires. Here, together with the synchronization settings, information from the LDAP directory is periodically updated without it impacting the overall performance of the server.
  3. Keycloak allows you to configure mappers for identity providers. Through these mappers, you can customize how users are created by setting a specific user attribute or setting a specific role when the user authenticates for the very first time.