4:03 p.m.
Thanks Stian!
Client Registration service passed under my radar (still on 1.6.1).
I was wondering, Initial Access Tokens seem to be only generated from the
Administration Console. Is there a REST API for that ?
On Fri, Mar 4, 2016 at 12:09 PM, Stian Thorgersen <sthorger(a)redhat.com>
wrote:
For dynamic registration of clients take a look at
http://keycloak.github.io/docs/userguide/keycloak-server/html/client-regi...
On 4 March 2016 at 09:12, Orestis Tsakiridis <
orestis.tsakiridis(a)telestax.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to design a keycloak-based system that will have the following
> characteristics:
>
> * A single realm R will exist with a big set of users.
> * Users will be able to install instances of software X that consists of
> four (4) applications protected by keycloak.
> * Each application in any instance of X will have a corresponding
> Keycloak Client entity containing a set of application-level roles. Thus,
> having the appropriate role,m a user of R can selectively be granted access
> to any application of any instance of X.
> * The addition of a new instance of X to the keycloak realm (the creation
> of the Clients, client roles etc.) is called 'registration' and will be
> done using the Keycloak Admin REST API.
>
> What's the best practice to achieve automatic registration of a new
> instance to the realm?
>
> I've considered the following:
>
> a. Have the instance applications *directly* consume keycloak Admin REST
> API and create Clients and Client roles. As far as i investigated users of
> the instance will need to have a R:realm-management:manage-clients role in
> order to do that (create-client didn't work). This seems a pretty
> permissive role to give to any user in R.
>
> b. Have a separate keycloak-protected application that won't be part of X
> to do the important work of 'registration'. It will work as a proxy. The
> application will act on behalf of an administrator user with a powerfull
> role like R:realm-management:realm-admin. The application will define it's
> own set of roles and HTTP API for instance registration. All users will
> have to go through it to register their instance. It will work as a proxy.
> But they won't need to be granted dangerous roles to do it.
>
> Any suggestion will be more than welcome.
>
> Thanks
>
> Orestis
>
>
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