Sébastien Blanc

Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat

Sébastien Blanc

Sébastien Blanc, Red Hat's Director of Developer Experience, is a Passion-Driven-Developer with one primary goal : share his passion by giving talks that are pragmatic, fun and focused on live coding.

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Using Kubernetes ConfigMaps to define your Quarkus application’s properties

Using Kubernetes ConfigMaps to define your Quarkus application’s properties

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By Sébastien Blanc

So, you wrote your Quarkus application, and now you want to deploy it to a Kubernetes cluster. Good news: Deploying a Quarkus application to a Kubernetes cluster is easy. Before you do this, though, you need to straighten out your application’s properties. After all, your app probably has to connect with a database, call other services, and so on. These settings are already defined in your application.properties file, but the values match the ones for your local environment and won’t work once deployed onto your cluster.

So, how do you easily solve this problem? Let’s walk through an example.

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Easily secure your Spring Boot applications with Keycloak

Easily secure your Spring Boot applications with Keycloak

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By Sébastien Blanc

What is Keycloak?

Although security is a crucial aspect of any application, its implementation can be difficult. Worse, it is often neglected, poorly implemented and intrusive in the code. But lately, security servers have appeared which allow for outsourcing and delegating all the authentication and authorization aspects. Of these servers, one of the most promising is Keycloak, open-source, flexible, and agnostic of any technology, it is easily deployable/adaptable in its own infrastructure.

Moreover, Keycloak is more than just an authentication server, it also provides a complete Identity Management system, user federation for third parties like LDAP and a lot more … Check it out on here.

The project can also be found on Github

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