Elytron is a security framework that has been created to unify the security aspects of WildFly and JBoss' Enterprise Application Platform (EAP). It comes as a consequence that this framework has been initially designed for monolithic applications in order to provide coverage on every aspect of security. What is the advantage of using Elytron in a container-ready native platform such as Quarkus?
Although it may look like an oversimplified solution to securing your assets, it can prove to be advantageous when developing or testing applications that include security roles. Out of the box, Quarkus provides an implementation of a file-based security realm in order to provide role-based access control (RBAC) to our basic endpoints with minimal configuration requirements.
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