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

20. Other Books You May Enjoy

Chapter 13: Extending Keycloak

At this point, you should have a good idea in terms of what Keycloak has to offer as an Identity and Access Management (IAM) solution. You may also be trying to correlate what you have learned so far with the use cases you need to solve and how to leverage Keycloak capabilities to fit into your requirements.

Although Keycloak offers a rich configuration model that allows you to easily adapt its capabilities according to your needs, it is expected that the configuration is not enough to sort out all of them.

Among other questions, you are probably asking yourself how to change Keycloak pages to comply with your own User Interface (UI) and User Experience (UX) patterns. Or perhaps how Keycloak can leverage and integrate to a legacy database identity store for fetching identity-related data for existing users. Or maybe – and I promise this is my last attempt – you want to send audit events to a fraud detection system and integrate with...