[aerogear-dev] AGPUSH-1047: UPS decoupling from Keycloak

Andres Galante agalante at redhat.com
Mon Jan 11 08:21:16 EST 2016


On the first screens I designed for UPS there there was a first step before
login to decide weather to use keycloak or not:

https://rawgit.com/andresgalante/UPS/master/keycloack-setup.html
https://rawgit.com/andresgalante/UPS/master/login.html



On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 9:50 AM, Lukas Fryc <lfryc at redhat.com> wrote:

> Hi Bruno,
>
> are there any plans or thoughts to allow association of the UPS with
> Keycloak instance via web UI?
>
> On Fri, Jan 8, 2016 at 2:53 PM, Bruno Oliveira <bruno at abstractj.org>
> wrote:
>
>> Good morning, today I have a conversation with Matthias about the
>> decoupling for UPS from Keycloak[1]. Also, during the week, I have a
>> brainstorm on some ideas with Stian, to figure out the better way to
>> achieve this.
>> Motivation
>>
>> The reason why we want to decouple UPS from Keycloak, is due to the fact
>> that today is not possible to have UPS and Keycloak in a separated
>> infrastructure. Currently we bundle it. Keycloak is still and will always
>> be our default security solution.
>>
>> There’s no intentions or future plans to make use of another security
>> provider.
>> Actions items
>>
>> During these conversations I identified some action items for myself
>> which I would like to share. Also, I’m going to start to file Jiras under
>> AGPUSH-1047 umbrella.
>> 1. Create a client cli script using Aesh to link UPS with Keycloak
>>
>> The script would ask for admin’s username/password or an initial
>> registration token. After that, the script would make use of the dynamic
>> client registration service to create the required clients with Keycloak.
>> 2. Themes
>>
>> For theme definition we have 2 scenarios:
>>
>>    -
>>
>>    Already existent server in use
>>
>>    Nothing will be changed. It’s already an agreement that the current
>>    theme should be neutral and not changed.
>>    -
>>
>>    Brand new instance of Keycloak with UPS theme
>>
>>    For scenarios where people want custom theme from UPS, people can
>>    just deploy it, exactly like described here (
>>    http://keycloak.github.io/docs/userguide/keycloak-server/html/themes.html#d4e2340
>>    )
>>
>> 3. Creation of roles for clients
>>
>> For the very first draft I’m planning to just import ups-realm.json
>> (manual process) and see how it goes.
>>
>> The ideal is to extend the client registration service on Keycloak to
>> allow creating roles for a client. For now, let’s just start simple — this
>> can be tricky and require more discussion/time.
>> 4. Creating of roles for users
>>
>> Same as item 3, for now assume that user exist with “admin” role. The
>> ideal is the creation of a super user to access UPS. For now, users can
>> manually register/import users that can access UPS through the KC admin
>> console.
>> 5. UPS realm
>>
>> Discussing with Matthias we came up with 2 scenarios:
>>
>>    - Make use of an already existent realm in use
>>
>> In this scenarios, people want to make use of UPS, but don’t want to have
>> a new realm dedicated for it. We’re going to make use of the dynamic client
>> registration against the realm specified.
>>
>>    - Brand new instance of Keycloak with UPS theme
>>
>> For people willing to have a separated realm not mixed up with master.
>> In this scenario we provide ups-realm.json as part of documentation or
>> demo purposes and make use of the dynamic client registration process.
>>
>> Note: We probably can benefit of item 1 to import the json file if
>> necessary.
>> 6. Multiple UPS instances with a single instance of KC
>>
>> It would require to extend the client registration service and some work
>> on KC. Depending on the time, it can be done. But for now we’re going to
>> assume that the relationship will be 1:1, into other words, one instance of
>> UPS and one instance of KC.
>>
>> For corp scenarios we would end up with:
>> Test
>>
>>    - testing.ups.mybank.com
>>    - testing.keycloak.mybank.com
>>
>> Production
>>
>>    - ups.mybank.com
>>    - keycloak.mybank.com
>>
>> If you have any questions or feedback, I’m listening.
>>
>> https://issues.jboss.org/browse/AGPUSH-1047
>>>> --
>> - abstractj
>>
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>
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