Muhammad Edwin

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Muhammad Edwin

a RedHatter and Digital Nomad, with Jeans, Sneakers, Laptop and Coffees, Anytime - Anywhere.

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Authentication and authorization using the Keycloak REST API

Authentication and authorization using the Keycloak REST API

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By Muhammad Edwin

Enabling authentication and authorization involves complex functionality beyond a simple login API. In a previous article, I described the Keycloak REST login API endpoint, which only handles some authentication tasks. In this article, I describe how to enable other aspects of authentication and authorization by using Keycloak REST API functionality out of the box.

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API login and JWT token generation using Keycloak

API login and JWT token generation using Keycloak

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By Muhammad Edwin

Red Hat single sign-on (SSO)—or its open source version, Keycloak—is one of the leading products for web SSO capabilities, and is based on popular standards such as Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) 2.0, OpenID Connect, and OAuth 2.0. One of Red Hat SSO’s strongest features is that we can access Keycloak directly in many ways, whether through a simple HTML login form, or an API call. In the following scenario, we will generate a JWT token and then validate it. Everything will be done using API calls, so Keycloak’s UI is not exposed to the public directly.

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