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

Product type Paperback

Published in Jun 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781800562493

Length 362 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Docker

Concepts

System Administration

Authors (2):

Pedro Igor Silva

Stian Thorgersen

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Table of Contents (21) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Getting Started with Keycloak

2. Chapter 1: Getting Started with Keycloak FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Securing Your First Application

4. Section 2: Securing Applications with Keycloak

5. Chapter 3: Brief Introduction to Standards

6. Chapter 4: Authenticating Users with OpenID Connect

7. Chapter 5: Authorizing Access with OAuth 2.0

8. Chapter 6: Securing Different Application Types

9. Chapter 7: Integrating Applications with Keycloak

10. Chapter 8: Authorization Strategies

11. Section 3: Configuring and Managing Keycloak

12. Chapter 9: Configuring Keycloak for Production

13. Chapter 10: Managing Users

14. Chapter 11: Authenticating Users

15. Chapter 12: Managing Tokens and Sessions

16. Chapter 13: Extending Keycloak

17. Section 4: Security Considerations

18. Chapter 14: Securing Keycloak and Applications

19. Assessments

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Choosing an integration architecture

There are two main integration styles, depending on where the integration code and configuration are located:

Embedded
Proxied

Integrations that are embedded into your technology stack are usually provided by a third-party library, framework, web container, or application server. In this style, your application talks directly with Keycloak and is responsible for making requests and processing OAuth2 and OpenID Connect responses. Applications using this style usually need to implement some code or provide some form of configuration to enable support for these protocols. Any setting you need to change will require you to redeploy your application:

Figure 7.1 – Embedded integration style

On the other hand, in the proxied style, there is a layer of indirection where the integration is managed by a service running in front of your application, which, in turn, relies on HTTP headers to fetch tokens or...