Keycloak Demo

This demo shows how to run Keycloak and secure different applications and services.

There are a few bits to the demo and to make it easy to deploy everything it uses MiniShift to make it easy to run everything on a single computer and have everything wired together properly.

Before starting the demo you need to download and install MiniShift. This is as easy as downloading the MiniShift distribution or running it with your favorite oc cluster up command.

Once you have downloaded MiniShift start it up and make sure you install the admin-user addon. For simplicity you can just run bin/start-minishift.sh which will do this for you.

Alternatively, you can run bin/start-oc-cluster-up.sh, which will start your local cluster and add Cluster Admin permissions to the developer user (so that you can see all the Projects in the UI Console).

Basic demo

Overview

The demo contains the following parts:

• Keycloak
• Node.js REST service secured with Keycloak Node.js adapter
• HTML5 application secured with Keycloak JavaScript adapter
• Spring application for Mutual TLS

Starting Keycloak

Simply run bin/start-keycloak.sh and Keycloak will be deployed to OpenShift.

To find the hostname of Keycloak run oc get routes keycloak. Then open https:// in your favorite browser.

You can now login to the Keycloak admin console with username admin and password admin.

To configure Keycloak you can either create a new realm in the admin console and import demo-realm.json or run bin/configure-keycloak.sh.

Deploying the Node.js service

The Node.js service is a very simple API that is secured with the Keycloak Node.js adapter.

Simply run bin/start-service.sh and the service will be deployed to OpenShift.

To find the hostname of the service run oc get routes demo-service. Then open https://<hostname>/public in your favorite browser. You can also try https://<hostname>/secured, but this will return a 401 as you are not authenticated at this point.

Deploying the HTML5 application

The HTML5 application is a basic web application that is secured with the Keycloak JavaScript adapter. You can login to the application through Keycloak and then securely invoke the Node.js service.

Simply run bin/start-app.sh and the application will be deployed to OpenShift.

To find the hostname of the service run oc get routes demo-app. Then open https://<hostname>/public in your favorite browser. Click on the login button and login with username keycloak and password test. Now you can click on the various buttons to invoke different endpoints on the service.

You won't be able to invoke the admin endpoint at this point as the keycloak user doesn't have the required roles. Login to the Keycloak admin console and add the admin role to the keycloak user to be able to do that.

One last fun thing you can try is to change the application to invoke the PHP service instead.

Additional things to try

Keycloak Gatekeeper

The PHP service is a very simple API that is secured with the Keycloak Generic adapter.

Simply run bin/start-service-php.sh and the service will be deployed to OpenShift.

To find the hostname of the service run oc get routes demo-service-php. Then open https://<hostname>/public in your favorite browser. You can also try https://<hostname>/secured, but this will return a 401 as you are not authenticated at this point.

As the PHP service provides the same API as the Node.js service from the basic demo you can configure the HTML5 application to invoke it. To do this run bin/switch-app-service.sh php.

Client Mutual SSL authentication

The Mutual TLS application demonstrates how to use Mutual TLS with x509 Client Authenticator. It should be considered as a separate piece from the PHP, Node.js and HTML5 application (although it exposes the same REST interface).

In order to run it, just invoke bin/start-mutual-tls-demo.sh. The next step is to obtain the route using oc get routes. Once you identify, navigate to the demo application and proceed into the secured section. Both Keycloak and Mutual TLS application have SSL debug turned on. This way you will see how the handshake messages are flying in and out.

NOTE: Do not forget to import the demo-realm.json!