[keycloak-dev] Community extensions and examples

[Sebastien Blanc]

On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 11:31 PM, Dmitry Telegin <mitya at cargosoft.ru> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Though I'm not a Keycloak dev, I hope the community member's 2¢ will be
> useful nevertheless.
>
> To me that sounds like a great initiative, I myself will be happy to
> contribute BeerCloak, an example of how to build complete admin realm
> resources while the corresponding SPI is not (yet) implemented.
>
> Off the top of my head, I think we'll need some sort of separation
> between examples and extensions because of their (generally) different
> use cases. For examples, it's "check it out and hack on it"; for
> extensions, "install & use it" (preferably skipping the "checkout" and
> "build" phases).
>
> Ideally, there should be something like Atlassian Marketplace, a
> registry/repository of extensions (including commercial ones) with one-
> click installation. I clearly understand that wouldn't be a top
> priority - just sharing my vision.
>

Putting the commercial extensions aside, I like the concept of a
"Marketplace", in fact I like what Forge does for its addons :
https://forge.jboss.org/addons . Each Extension should start with the same
"blueprint" and yes it would be nice to have a :
- A registry.
- A standard way of installing them.

>
> BTW, speaking about commercial extensions, can we hope on our products
> being mentioned somewhere too? I think such a disclosure can make
> Keycloak/RHSSO look more valuable in the eyes of potential users and
> customers. Our flagship product provides Keycloak support for hardware
> OTP tokens with full lifecycle, like bulk import, enrollment,
> revocation, audit etc.
>
> The other stuff being developed is:
> * HRM integration (sync Keycloak with employee database from HRMs);
> * advanced monitoring (collect different Keycloak-specific metrics and
> expose them as DMR/JMX);
> * OpenID 2.0 (legacy) support;
> * identity brokering for VK social network (this and the previous one
> most likely will be opensourced).
>
> There are even thoughts on integrating PKI functionality into Keycloak,
> which becomes highly topical with the introduction of x509 client cert
> auth (thanks Peter!)
>
> Cheers,
> Dmitry Telegin
> CTO, CargoSoft LLC
> http://cargosoft.ru/en/rm/about/
>
> В Wed, 28/06/2017 в 08:34 +0200, Stian Thorgersen пишет:
> > At times there are extensions and examples that we don't want to
> > include in
> > the main repository. This could be for several reasons, including:
> >
> > * We don't have the resources to maintain and support it
> > * We don't believe it's generic enough
> > * Examples that are to complex
> >
> > However, these can still be useful for some people. So I'm thinking
> > about
> > how we can provide community maintained extensions and examples.
> >
> > A very simple idea would be to add a page on our website that links
> > to the
> > relevant repository and documentation. To contribute you would setup
> > your
> > own Github repository, documentation and also a download if you want.
> > Then
> > you'd send a PR to the website to add your extension or example.
> >
> > Thoughts?
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