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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Integrating with third-party identity providers

Keycloak can integrate with third-party identity providers using a set of open standard protocols.

In the previous section, you learned about user federation and how to easily integrate with LDAP. Identity providers leverage user federation to create cross-domain trust between Keycloak and an identity provider, where the identity data about users is shared and used by Keycloak to create, authenticate, and authorize users.

Integration with third-party identity providers is possible by using Keycloak as an identity broker, where Keycloak acts as an intermediary service for authenticating and replicating users from a targeted identity provider.

Identity brokering can solve different types of problems. As we will see in the next section, it can be used to integrate with social providers, as an integration point to a legacy identity and access management system, or to share identity data between a business partner and your organization...