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Keycloak: The Modern Way to Secure Your Apps

  • Keycloak is an open-source IAM solution developed by Red Hat, offering authentication, authorization, SSO, social login, and user federation.
  • It is self-hosted, flexible, and powerful, similar to Auth0 or Firebase Auth.
  • Keycloak simplifies user, permissions, and roles management for web apps, mobile apps, or APIs.
  • Setting up Keycloak can be done using Docker or manual installation.
  • After installation, one can log in to the Keycloak Admin Console at http://localhost:8080 with admin/admin credentials.
  • Keycloak revolves around concepts like realms, clients, users, roles, and groups for configuration and security.
  • It supports OAuth2 and OpenID Connect by default.
  • Keycloak can be integrated with frontend applications for user authentication using various libraries like keycloak-js, react-keycloak, or passport-keycloak.
  • For apps requiring login and role-based access control, Keycloak is a valuable addition to the tech stack saving development time and supporting modern protocols.
  • Keycloak is an open-source tool that scales with the needs of developers.

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