Using GBAC

Keycloak allows you to manage groups for your realms. Users are put into groups to represent their relationship with a specific business unit in your organization (mapping your organization tree) or just grouped together according to their role in your applications, such as when you want to have a specific group for users that can perform administrative operations.

Usually, groups and roles are used interchangeably, and this causes some confusion when defining a permission model. In Keycloak, there is a clear separation between these two concepts where, different from roles, groups are meant to organize your users and grant permissions according to the roles associated with a group.

By allowing assigning roles to groups, Keycloak makes it a lot easier to manage roles for multiple users without forcing you to grant and revoke roles for each individual user in your realm.

Groups in Keycloak are hierarchical, and when tokens are issued, you can traverse the hierarchy...