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Experiment with keycloak: an open source identity and access management solution

Keycloak seems one of the best open source solution for adding authentication to applications and securing services with minimum fuss.

Below is a non exhaustive list of the features it offers:

  • User Registration
  • Social login
  • Single Sign-On/Sign-Off across all applications belonging to the same Realm
  • 2-factor authentication
  • LDAP integration
  • Kerberos broker

It could be used to manage the users authentications and permissions in swh-web but also to secure other Software Heritage services.

As a first experiment, let's try to use it to implement user authentication and rate limit permissions in swh-web.


Migrated from T2020 (view on Phabricator)