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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Running the OpenID Connect playground

The OpenID Connect (OIDC) playground application was developed specifically for this book in order to make it as easy as possible for you to understand and experiment with OIDC in a practical way.

The playground application does not use any libraries for OIDC, but rather all OIDC requests are crafted by the application itself. One thing to note here is that this application is not implementing OIDC in a secure way, and is ignoring optional parameters in the requests that are important for a production application. There are two reasons for this. Firstly, it is so you can focus on understanding the general concepts of OIDC. Secondly, if you decide to implement your own application libraries for OIDC you should have a very good understanding of the specifications, and it is beyond the scope of this book to cover OIDC in that much detail.

Before continuing with reading this chapter, you should start the OIDC playground application, as it will...