[keycloak-user] IOT-support

Bill Burke bburke at redhat.com
Tue Aug 9 08:28:25 EDT 2016


We need a good idea of how people want this to work before we can 
continue.  Standards make me nervous as they can be a huge timesink both 
for implementation, certification, and maintenance.


On 8/9/16 4:00 AM, Thomas Darimont wrote:
> Hello Eduard,
>
> could you elaborate a bit on your use case?
>
> 1) How many devices do you need to manage? thousands, millions, billions?
> 2) Do you preregister devices or do you need to register them ad-hoc?
> 3) Do you need a device to user mapping?
> 4) What (general) metadata do you need to store per device?
> (DeviceInfo, e.g.: Device class, type, unique-id, device name, create 
> / update timestamp, features (perhaps as "tags"), enabled state, 
> activation state, link to the actual device, link to device specs)
> 5) Do yo hard code a secret to the device and does the secret needs to 
> be part of the device info in KC?
>
> Given the current Keycloak infrastructure I'd (IMHO) rather see a 
> dedicated infrastructure
> for IoT devices (Device Management?) instead of extending and using 
> the existing client facilities for this.
>
> Cheers,
> Thomas
>
> 2016-08-09 8:40 GMT+02:00 Matuszak, Eduard <eduard.matuszak at atos.net 
> <mailto:eduard.matuszak at atos.net>>:
>
>     Hello
>     My question is: Is Keycloak planned or are there still any efforts
>     to implement standards for the IOT also in the near future, e.g.
>     to support CoAp or CBOR-Web-Tokens? We are asked to integrate
>     resource constrained devices (by a large amount)  in our project
>     and it would be nice to keep Keycloak as AuthN/AuthZ-server to do
>     the essential work.
>     Best Regards, Eduard Matuszak
>
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