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Keycloak - Identity and Access Management for Modern Applications

You're reading from   Keycloak - Identity and Access Management for Modern Applications Harness the power of Keycloak, OpenID Connect, and OAuth 2.0 to secure applications

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781804616444
Length 350 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Stian Thorgersen Stian Thorgersen
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Pedro Igor Silva Pedro Igor Silva
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Getting Started with Keycloak 2. Securing Your First Application FREE CHAPTER 3. Brief Introduction to Standards 4. Authenticating Users with OpenID Connect 5. Authorizing Access with OAuth 2.0 6. Securing Different Application Types 7. Integrating Applications with Keycloak 8. Authorization Strategies 9. Configuring Keycloak for Production 10. Managing Users 11. Authenticating Users 12. Managing Tokens and Sessions 13. Extending Keycloak 14. Securing Keycloak and Applications 15. Assessments 16. Other Books You May Enjoy
17. Index

To get the most out of this book

To be able to run the examples provided in this book, you need to have OpenJDK and Node.js installed on your computer. All code examples have been tested using OpenJDK 17 and Node.js 18 on Linux (Fedora). However, the examples should also work on newer versions of OpenJDK and Node.js, as well as with Windows and mac OS.

Software/hardware covered in the book

OS requirements

Keycloak 22

Linux (any), macOS, Windows

OpenJDK 17+

Linux (any), macOS, Windows

Node.js 18+

Linux (any), macOS, Windows

If you are using the digital version of this book, we advise you to type the code yourself or access the code via the GitHub repository (link available in the next section). Doing so will help you avoid any potential errors related to the copying and pasting of code.

Download the example code files

The code bundle for the book is hosted on GitHub at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Keycloak---Identity-and-Access-Management-for-Modern-Applications-2nd-Edition/. We also have other code bundles from our rich catalog of books and videos available at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/. Check them out!

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Code in Action

Code in Action videos for this book can be viewed at https://packt.link/ZZQat.

Conventions used

There are a number of text conventions used throughout this book.

CodeInText: Indicates code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles. For example: “Keycloak supports the authorization_code grant type and the code and token response types.”

A block of code is set as follows:

<Header>.<Payload>.<Signature>

When we wish to draw your attention to a particular part of a code block, the relevant lines or items are set in bold:

{
  "access_token": "eyJhbGciOiJSUzI1NiIsI…",
  "expires_in": 299,
  "token_type": "bearer",
  "scope": "profile email",}

Any command-line input or output is written as follows:

$ npm install
$ npm start

Bold: Indicates a new term, an important word, or words that you see on the screen. For instance, words in menus or dialog boxes appear in the text like this. For example: “Now click on Load OpenID Provider Configuration.”

Warnings or important notes appear like this.

Tips and tricks appear like this.

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