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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Configuring a reverse proxy

When running in production, a reverse proxy is a key component to enable high availability. A reverse proxy provides a single and public access point for the different Keycloak instances, distributing the load across them using a set of policies. These instances are usually running in a private network so that they are only reachable through the proxy.

By distributing the load across instances, a reverse proxy helps you to scale your deployment by adding or removing more instances as needed, as well as helping to survive failures when specific nodes are failing to serve requests.

Keycloak can be used with any reverse proxy implementation so you are free to use whatever you are comfortable with. Examples of widely used reverse proxies are Apache HTTP Server, Nginx, F5, and HAProxy.

Regardless of your preference, there is a set of basic requirements that you should be aware of to use your choice with Keycloak: