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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

Using GBAC

Keycloak allows you to manage groups for your realms. Users are put into groups to represent their relationship with a specific business unit in your organization (mapping your organization tree) or just grouped together according to their role in your applications, such as when you want to have a specific group for users that can perform administrative operations.

Usually, groups and roles are used interchangeably, and this causes some confusion when defining a permission model. In Keycloak, there is a clear separation between these two concepts where, different from roles, groups are meant to organize your users and grant permissions according to the roles associated with a group.

By allowing assigning roles to groups, Keycloak makes it a lot easier to manage roles for multiple users without forcing you to grant and revoke roles for each individual user in your realm.

Groups in Keycloak are hierarchical, and when tokens are issued, you can traverse the hierarchy...

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