[aerogear-dev] Using existing Keycloak installation with Aerogear

[Matthias Wessendorf]

On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 3:40 PM, Egor Kolesnikov <
egor.kolesnikov at fastlane-it.com> wrote:

> Hi Matthias
>
>
>
> That’s correct – we are already using Keycloak to secure our RESTful APIs
> for mobile and web client access. Not that having separate installation for
> exclusive Aerogear is a dealbreaker, but it would re-introduce the problem
> Keycloak was supposed to solve in the first place J
>

fully understand! But we, initially, felt like limiting a bit. that said,
we are flexible and there might be a chance to have this changed


>
>
> I can see that UpsSecurityApplication class kills off Keycloak admin user
> in master realm – would it break anything if I disabled this feature and
> started using Aerogear-supplied Keycloak for other purposes on separate
> realms?
>

I don't think so (not tested). I recall we did this mainly to avoid adding
new realms


>
>
> Our use case is mobile app (iOS+android), backend and AngularJS-based web
> frontend and so far Keycloak fits our purpose like a glove. Now that we’re
> adding Push notification support, Aerogear appears to be quite logical
> choice.
>


sounds great!


>
>
> Thanks
>
> Egor
>
>
>
> *From:* aerogear-dev-bounces at lists.jboss.org [mailto:
> aerogear-dev-bounces at lists.jboss.org] *On Behalf Of *Matthias Wessendorf
> *Sent:* Tuesday, 14 October 2014 12:29 AM
> *To:* AeroGear Developer Mailing List
> *Subject:* Re: [aerogear-dev] Using existing Keycloak installation with
> Aerogear
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>
>
> Hi,
>
>
>
> for the UnifiedPush Server the initial integration case was to function
> only for the need of the AeroGear UnifiedPush server.
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> So, looks like, you'd appreciate a bit more flexibility, to basically use
> the auth-server for other apps as well ?
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> On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 3:18 PM, ekolesnikov <ek at fastlane-it.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Apologies for writing straight into DEV forums - I was unable to locate
> "aerogear-users" mailing list anywhere. Please feel free to point me to the
> right direction if this mailing list is inappropriate for questions like
> this.
>
> Is it possible to use/integrate Aerogear with existing Keycloak
> installation? We are already using Keycloak for all things auth in our
> application and have found ourselves in the situation where we potentially
> have to manage separate infrastructure - which makes the whole point of
> using Keycloak a bit irrelevant.
>
> As an alternative, we could consider using Keycloak supplied with with
> Aerogear - unfortunately, it looks like Aerogear has disabled Keycloak
> option to create additional realms.
>
> I would really appreciate it if you could share your thought on this.
>
> Thanks
> Egor
>
>
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