Integrating with Python applications

Python applications that use Flask can easily enable OpenID Connect and OAuth2 to applications through the Flask-OIDC library. It can be used to protect client as well as resource server applications.

Tip

If you are looking for a library to enable OpenID Connect support for command-line interfaces, there are different OpenID Connect client implementations you can use at https://openid.net/developers/certified/.

To install Flask-OIDC, run the following command:

$ pip install Flask-OIDC

The code examples for this section are available from the following GitHub repository:

$ cd Keycloak-Identity-and-Access-Management-for-Modern-Applications/ch7/python

In the preceding directory, you will find a frontend directory and a backend directory containing all the code you will need to follow and run the following examples.

In the next section, we are going to start looking at how to enable a web application in order to authenticate...