Single sign-on like the big guys

Authenticate Anything

Conclusions

With little effort, you can set up your local SSO environment. Of course, further steps are needed to set up a production-ready environment [4], but the goal of this exercise was just to get started. With the use of FLOSS components only, you can achieve a consolidated SSO experience already familiar to your users, saving you time and tickets.

Infos

  1. "Single sign-on with Keycloak" by Matthias Wübbeling, 2021, issue 61, pg. 64, https://www.admin-magazine.com/Archive/2021/61/Single-sign-on-with-Keycloak/
  2. Keycloak documentation: https://www.keycloak.org/guides
  3. OAuth2 Proxy project: https://oauth2-proxy.github.io/oauth2-proxy/
  4. Securing Keycloak for production: https://www.keycloak.org/server/configuration-production

The Author

Stefano Chittaro manages multicloud deployments with a special focus on automation and observability. Sometimes he rants about technology on https://nevarsin.blog.

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