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 8: Authorization Strategies

In the previous chapter, you learned about the options for integrating with Keycloak using different programming languages, frameworks, and libraries. You learned how to obtain tokens from Keycloak and use these tokens to authenticate users.

This chapter will focus on the different authorization strategies you can choose from and how to leverage them to enable authorization to your applications using different access control mechanisms such as role-based access control (RBAC), group-based access control (GBAC), OAuth2 scopes, and attribute-based access control (ABAC), as well as learning how to leverage Keycloak as a centralized authorization server to externalize authorization from your applications. You will also learn about the differences between these options and how to choose the best strategy for you.

By the end of this chapter, you will have a good understanding of how you can leverage Keycloak authorization capabilities and choose...