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Keycloak - Identity and Access Management for Modern Applications - Second Edition

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Product type Book
Published in Jul 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781804616444
Pages 350 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
Languages
Authors (2):
Stian Thorgersen Stian Thorgersen
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Pedro Igor Silva Pedro Igor Silva
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Preface 1. Getting Started with Keycloak 2. Securing Your First Application 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

Summary

In this chapter, you learned about the different strategies you can choose from to authorize access to protected resources in your applications. By leveraging token-based authorization, applications should be able to introspect tokens – either locally or through the introspection endpoint – and use their claims to support different access control mechanisms, such as RBAC, GBAC, and ABAC, or use the scopes granted by users to the client application acting on their behalf.

You also learned that Keycloak can be used as a centralized authorization service to decouple authorization from applications, where access decisions are taken by Keycloak based on the resources and policies managed through the server.

In the next chapter, we are going to look at the main steps for running Keycloak in production.

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