Keycloak tutorial

1. What is Keycloak used for?
2. Is Keycloak an SSO?
3. Is Keycloak worth using?
4. Is Keycloak free to use?
5. Is Keycloak an LDAP?
6. Does Keycloak use JWT?
7. Is Keycloak an OAuth server?
8. Is Keycloak a Microservice?
9. Is Keycloak outdated?
10. What is alternative of Keycloak?
11. Is Keycloak a server?
12. Is Keycloak a database?
13. Is Keycloak a Microservice?
14. Does Keycloak use JWT?
15. Is Keycloak an OAuth server?
16. Is Keycloak outdated?
17. Which DB is best for Keycloak?
18. Does Keycloak have an API?

What is Keycloak used for?

Keycloak is an open-source Identity and Access Management (IAM) tool. Being an Identity and Access Management (IAM) tool, it streamlines the authentication process for applications and IT services. The purpose of an IAM tool is to ensure that the right people in a company have appropriate access to resources.

Is Keycloak an SSO?

Keycloak is an open source program that allows you to setup a secure single sign on provider. It supports multiple protocols such as SAML 2.0 and OpenID Connect. It can also store user credentials locally or via an LDAP or Kerberos backend.

Is Keycloak worth using?

Keycloak can be very useful when your client has some existing user database like LDAP or Active Directory because it has a built-in mechanism for synchronization with such identity providers.

Is Keycloak free to use?

Keycloak is a free and open source Identity and Access Management solution aimed at modern applications and services. It makes it easy to secure applications and services with little to no code.

Is Keycloak an LDAP?

Keycloak does have an builtin ldap-provider that you can use to get users from an external ldap server so that these users can user OIDC or SDAML. But keykloak does not provide any builtin ldap server, so you can not connect via ldap to keycloak.

Does Keycloak use JWT?

This demonstrates how to generate JWT token using Keycloak. This can be used to authenticate the API user as well as to enable OAuth 2.0 authorization for all OAuth protected APIs using OpenID Connect in the Storefront application. This can be used as an alternative to the Auth microservice.

Is Keycloak an OAuth server?

Keycloak is Open Source Identity and Access Management Server, which is a OAuth2 and OpenID Connect(OIDC) protocol complaint.

Is Keycloak a Microservice?

Understanding Keycloak users, clients, services, and realms

This is the standard three-step OAuth 2 authentication scheme. As the user, you are the resource owner, the client application is the web portal, the authorization service is Keycloak, and the resource server is a set of microservices.

Is Keycloak outdated?

Default distribution is now powered by Quarkus

The WildFly distribution of Keycloak is now deprecated, with support ending June 2022. We recommend migrating to the Quarkus distribution as soon as possible.

What is alternative of Keycloak?

We have compiled a list of solutions that reviewers voted as the best overall alternatives and competitors to Keycloak, including Okta, OneLogin, Microsoft Azure Active Directory, and Auth0.

Is Keycloak a server?

Keycloak is a separate server that you manage on your network. Applications are configured to point to and be secured by this server. Keycloak uses open protocol standards like OpenID Connect or SAML 2.0 to secure your applications.

Is Keycloak a database?

Keycloak comes with its own embedded Java-based relational database called H2. This is the default database that Keycloak will use to persist data and really only exists so that you can run the authentication server out of the box.

Is Keycloak a Microservice?

Understanding Keycloak users, clients, services, and realms

This is the standard three-step OAuth 2 authentication scheme. As the user, you are the resource owner, the client application is the web portal, the authorization service is Keycloak, and the resource server is a set of microservices.

Does Keycloak use JWT?

This demonstrates how to generate JWT token using Keycloak. This can be used to authenticate the API user as well as to enable OAuth 2.0 authorization for all OAuth protected APIs using OpenID Connect in the Storefront application. This can be used as an alternative to the Auth microservice.

Is Keycloak an OAuth server?

Keycloak is Open Source Identity and Access Management Server, which is a OAuth2 and OpenID Connect(OIDC) protocol complaint.

Is Keycloak outdated?

Default distribution is now powered by Quarkus

The WildFly distribution of Keycloak is now deprecated, with support ending June 2022. We recommend migrating to the Quarkus distribution as soon as possible.

Which DB is best for Keycloak?

With this in mind we have selected PostgreSQL and CockroachDB as the best candidates. PostgreSQL is a high quality fully open source database, with many supported offerings such as: Azure Database for PostgreSQL.

Does Keycloak have an API?

This application connects to your Keycloak instances and uses Keycloak's authentication and authorization capability through its REST API.