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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 protocols to secure applications

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800562493
Length 362 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Pedro Igor Silva Pedro Igor Silva
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Stian Thorgersen Stian Thorgersen
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Table of Contents (21) Chapters Close

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 20. Other Books You May Enjoy

Using GBAC

Keycloak allows you to manage groups for your realms, where users are put into groups to represent their relationship with a specific business unit in your organization (mapping your organization tree) or just group users together according to their role in your applications, as when you want to have a specific group for users that can perform administrative operations.

Usually, groups and roles are usually used interchangeably, and this causes some confusion when defining a permission model. In Keycloak, there is a clear separation between these two concepts where, different than roles, groups are meant to organize your users and to grant permissions according to the roles associated with a group.

By allowing assigning roles to groups, Keycloak makes it a lot easier to manage roles for multiple users without forcing you to grant and revoke roles for each individual user in your realm.

Groups in Keycloak are hierarchical, and when tokens are issued, you can traverse...

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