Using RBAC

Probably one of the most-used access control mechanisms, RBAC allows you to protect resources depending on whether the user is granted a role. As you learned in previous chapters, Keycloak has built-in support for managing roles, as well as for propagating those roles to your applications using tokens.

Roles usually represent a role a user has in either your organization or in the context of your application. As an example, users can be granted an administrator role to indicate they act as someone allowed to access and perform actions on any resource in your application. Or, they can be granted a people-manager role to indicate that they act as someone allowed to access and perform actions on resources related to their subordinates.

As you learned from previous chapters, Keycloak has two categories of roles: realm and client roles. Roles defined at the realm level are called realm roles. These roles usually represent the user’s role within an organization...