Spring Boot/ Keycloak Authorization

• This is a simple containerized spring boot application to demonstrate usage of Keycloak as Authentication and Authorization server with OpenId Connect protocol

The application is made up of majorly two services:

1. Keycloak server
2. Simple Spring Boot REST APIs.

To run the app:

1. Install docker and docker-compose

2. Run docker-compose up --build - This will start the keycloak server and the application itself.

3. Open the keycloak admin panel at This link
4. Follow the instructions on this link to set up a keycloak realm, role, user and some few other identity specifications:

• For this app we use the following settings:
• Realm: test
• Role: user
• User: user1
• Client: SpringBootKeyCloak

To get access_token: Make post request with json credentials to http://localhost:8082/token.

To test the token received: make GET request to http://localhost:8082/api