Keycloak - Identity and Access Management for Modern Applications: Harness the power of Keycloak, OpenID Connect, and OAuth 2.0 protocols to secure applications

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Title page
Copyright and Credits
Contributors
	About the authors
	About the reviewers
Table of Contents
Preface
	Who this book is for
	What this book covers
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	Code in Action
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	Conventions used
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Section 1: Getting Started with Keycloak
Chapter 1: Getting Started with Keycloak
	Technical requirements
	Introducing Keycloak
	Installing and running Keycloak
		Running Keycloak on Docker
		Installing and running Keycloak with OpenJDK
	Discovering the Keycloak admin and account consoles
		Getting started with the Keycloak admin console
		Getting started with the Keycloak account console
	Summary
	Questions
Chapter 2: Securing Your First Application
	Technical requirements
	Understanding the sample application
	Running the application
	Understanding how to log in to the application
	Securely invoking the backend REST API
	Summary
	Questions
Section 2: Securing Applications with Keycloak
Chapter 3: Brief Introduction to Standards
	Authorizing application access with OAuth 2.0
	Authenticating users with OpenID Connect
	Leveraging JWT for tokens
	Understanding why SAML 2.0 is still relevant
	Summary
	Questions
Chapter 4: Authenticating Users with OpenID Connect
	Technical requirements
	Running the OpenID Connect playground
	Understanding the Discovery endpoint
	Authenticating a user
	Understanding the ID token
		Updating the user profile
		Adding a custom property
		Adding roles to the ID token
	Invoking the UserInfo endpoint
	Dealing with users logging out
		Initiating the logout
		Leveraging ID and access token expiration
		Leveraging OIDC Session Management
		Leveraging OIDC Back-Channel Logout
		A note on OIDC Front-Channel Logout
		How should you deal with logout?
	Summary
	Questions
	Further reading
Chapter 5: Authorizing Access with OAuth 2.0
	Technical requirements
	Running the OAuth 2.0 playground
	Obtaining an access token
	Requiring user consent
	Limiting the access granted to access tokens
		Using the audience to limit token access
		Using roles to limit token access
		Using the scope to limit token access
	Validating access tokens
	Summary
	Questions
	Further reading
Chapter 6: Securing Different Application Types
	Technical requirements
	Understanding internal and external applications
	Securing web applications
		Securing server-side web applications
		Securing a SPA with a dedicated REST API
		Securing a SPA with an intermediary REST API
		Securing a SPA with an external REST API
	Securing native and mobile applications
	Securing REST APIs and services
	Summary
	Questions
	Further reading
Chapter 7: Integrating Applications with Keycloak
	Technical requirements
	Choosing an integration architecture
	Choosing an integration option
	Integrating with Golang applications
		Configuring a Golang client
	Integrating with Java applications
		Using Quarkus
		Using Spring Boot
		Using Keycloak adapters
	Integrating with JavaScript applications
	Integrating with Node.js applications
		Creating a Node.js resource server
	Integrating with Python applications
		Creating a Python client
		Creating a Python resource server
	Using a reverse proxy
	Try not to implement your own integration
	Summary
	Questions
	Further reading
Chapter 8: Authorization Strategies
	Understanding authorization
	Using RBAC
	Using GBAC
		Mapping group membership into tokens
	Using OAuth2 scopes
	Using ABAC
	Using Keycloak as a centralized authorization server
	Summary
	Questions
	Further reading
Section 3: Configuring and Managing Keycloak
Chapter 9: Configuring Keycloak for Production
	Technical requirements
	Setting the hostname for Keycloak
		Setting the frontend URL
		Setting the backend URL
		Setting the admin URL
	Enabling TLS
	Configuring a database
	Enabling clustering
	Configuring a reverse proxy
		Distributing the load across nodes
		Forwarding client information
		Keeping session affinity
	Testing your environment
		Testing load balancing and failover
		Testing the frontend and backchannel URLs
	Summary
	Questions
	Further reading
Chapter 10: Managing Users
	Technical requirements
	Managing local users
		Creating a local user
		Managing user credentials
		Obtaining and validating user information
		Enabling self-registration
		Managing user attributes
	Integrating with LDAP and Active Directory
		Understanding LDAP mappers
		Synchronizing groups
		Synchronizing roles
	Integrating with third-party identity providers
		Creating a OpenID Connect identity provider
	Integrating with social identity providers
	Allowing users to manage their data
	Summary
	Questions
	Further reading
Chapter 11: Authenticating Users
	Technical requirements
	Understanding authentication flows
		Configuring an authentication flow
	Using passwords
		Changing password policies
		Resetting user passwords
	Using OTPs
		Changing OTP policies
		Allowing users to choose whether they want to use OTP
		Forcing users to authenticate using OTP
	Using Web Authentication (WebAuthn)
		Enabling WebAuthn for an authentication flow
		Registering a security device and authenticating
	Using strong authentication
	Summary
	Questions
	Further reading
Chapter 12: Managing Tokens and Sessions
	Technical requirements
	Managing sessions
		Managing session lifetimes
		Managing active sessions
		Expiring user sessions prematurely
		Understanding cookies and their relation to sessions
	Managing tokens
		Managing ID tokens' and access tokens' lifetimes
		Managing refresh tokens' lifetimes
		Enabling refreshing token rotation
		Revoking tokens
	Summary
	Questions
	Further reading
Chapter 13: Extending Keycloak
	Technical requirements
	Understanding Service Provider Interfaces
		Packaging a custom provider
		Installing a custom provider
		Understanding the KeycloakSessionFactory and KeycloakSession components
		Understanding the life cycle of a provider
		Configuring providers
	Changing the look and feel
		Understanding themes
		Creating and deploying a new theme
		Extending templates
		Extending theme-related SPIs
	Customizing authentication flows
	Looking at other customization points
	Summary
	Questions
	Further reading
Section 4: Security Considerations
Chapter 14: Securing Keycloak and Applications
	Securing Keycloak
		Encrypting communication to Keycloak
		Configuring the Keycloak hostname
		Rotating the signing keys used by Keycloak
		Regularly updating Keycloak
		Loading secrets into Keycloak from an external vault
		Protecting Keycloak with a firewall and an intrusion prevention system
	Securing the database
		Protecting the database with a firewall
		Enabling authentication and access control for the database
		Encrypting the database
	Securing cluster communication
		Enabling cluster authentication
		Encrypting cluster communication
	Securing user accounts
	Securing applications
		Web application security
		OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect best practice
		Keycloak client configurations
	Summary
	Questions
	Further reading
Assessments
	Chapter 1
	Chapter 2
	Chapter 3
	Chapter 4
	Chapter 5
	Chapter 6
	Chapter 7
	Chapter 8
	Chapter 9
	Chapter 10
	Chapter 11
	Chapter 12
	Chapter 13
	Chapter 14
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