Summary
With this, we shall finish this chapter, which dealt with securing Spring Boot applications. We have now finished our journey through Spring Boot security by learning about the context and the toolsets that are required to secure our applications in an effective manner. Let’s summarize the key learnings from this chapter:
- Understanding Spring Boot security: We understood the need for securing our Spring Boot applications and the basic tenets of Spring Security.
- Implementing with OAuth2: We learned how to authenticate users using OAuth2 and manage secure tokens using JWT.
- RBAC using Keycloak: We showed in great detail how to configure Keycloak to manage roles and permissions in our system, thus enhancing the security structure of our application.
- Modified security configuration for reactive: We elaborated on how security configurations are customized for the reactive programming model so that our applications can be both secure and capable at the same...
