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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

Running the application

In this section, you will learn how to run the sample application.

If you don’t already have Node.js installed on your workstation, go to https://nodejs.org/ for instructions on how to install it.

To run the frontend on Node.js, open a terminal and run the following commands:

$ cd Keycloak---Identity-and-Access-Management-for-Modern-Applications-2nd-Edition/ch2/frontend/
$ npm install
$ npm start

Next, open a new terminal to run the backend using the following commands:

$ cd Keycloak---Identity-and-Access-Management-for-Modern-Applications-2nd-Edition/ch2/backend/
$ npm install
$ npm start

Now that you have the sample application running with Node.js, you can register it with Keycloak, which we will cover in the next section.