Introducing Red Hat SSO
The last part of this chapter will discuss the Red Hat SSO project, which is derived from the Keycloak upstream project (http://www.keycloak.org/). In short, RedHat SSO adds to your application SSO capabilities based on industry standards such as SAML 2.0, OpenID Connect, and OAuth 2.0. The SSO Server can centrally manage fine-grained permissions for applications and services acting as an SAML or OpenID Connect-based Identity Provider.
Red Hat SSO is not included by default in the EAP 7 stack; however, we will show here how you can integrate it with EAP through the following steps:
- First of all, we will download the SSO server and the EAP client adapter.
- Next, we will install the components and create a management user.
- Finally, we will show how to create a Federation policy on the SSO to restrict access to client EAP applications.
Installing Red Hat SSO server
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