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Keycloak - Identity and Access Management for Modern Applications

You're reading from   Keycloak - Identity and Access Management for Modern Applications Harness the power of Keycloak, OpenID Connect, and OAuth 2.0 to secure applications

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781804616444
Length 350 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Stian Thorgersen Stian Thorgersen
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Pedro Igor Silva Pedro Igor Silva
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Getting Started with Keycloak 2. Securing Your First Application FREE CHAPTER 3. Brief Introduction to Standards 4. Authenticating Users with OpenID Connect 5. Authorizing Access with OAuth 2.0 6. Securing Different Application Types 7. Integrating Applications with Keycloak 8. Authorization Strategies 9. Configuring Keycloak for Production 10. Managing Users 11. Authenticating Users 12. Managing Tokens and Sessions 13. Extending Keycloak 14. Securing Keycloak and Applications 15. Assessments 16. Other Books You May Enjoy
17. Index

Using RBAC

Probably one of the most-used access control mechanisms, RBAC allows you to protect resources depending on whether the user is granted a role. As you learned in previous chapters, Keycloak has built-in support for managing roles, as well as for propagating those roles to your applications using tokens.

Roles usually represent a role a user has in either your organization or in the context of your application. As an example, users can be granted an administrator role to indicate they act as someone allowed to access and perform actions on any resource in your application. Or, they can be granted a people-manager role to indicate that they act as someone allowed to access and perform actions on resources related to their subordinates.

As you learned from previous chapters, Keycloak has two categories of roles: realm and client roles. Roles defined at the realm level are called realm roles. These roles usually represent the user’s role within an organization...

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