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

20. Other Books You May Enjoy

Chapter 12: Managing Tokens and Sessions

In addition to acting as a centralized authentication and authorization service, Keycloak is, at its core, a session and token management system.

As part of the authentication process, Keycloak may create server-side sessions and correlate them with tokens. By relying on these sessions, Keycloak is able to keep the state of the authentication context where sessions originated, track users' and clients' activity, check the validity of tokens, and decide when users and clients should re-authenticate.

In this chapter, we are going to look at how Keycloak allows you to manage tokens and their underlying sessions, as well as understanding the different aspects that you should be aware of when doing so. For that, we are going to cover the following topics: