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KeyCloak
KeyCloak is "an open source identity and access management solution." Using a local database, or a variety of backends (think OpenLDAP), you can provide Single Sign-On (SSO) using OpenID, OAuth 2.0, and SAML.
!!! important Development of this recipe is sponsored by The Common Observatory. Thanks guys!
[](https://www.observe.global/)
Ingredients
- Docker swarm cluster with persistent shared storage
- Traefik configured per design
- DNS entry for the hostname (i.e. "keycloak.your-domain.com") you intend to use for LDAP Account Manager, pointed to your keepalived IP
Preparation
Setup data locations
We'll need several directories to bind-mount into our container for both runtime and backup data, so create them as follows
mkdir -p /var/data/runtime/keycloak/database
mkdir -p /var/data/keycloak/database-dump
Prepare environment
Create /var/data/keycloak/keycloak.env, and populate with the following variables, customized for your own domain structure.
# Technically, this could be auto-detected, but we prefer to be prescriptive
DB_VENDOR=postgres
DB_DATABASE=keycloak
DB_ADDR=keycloak-db
DB_USER=keycloak
DB_PASSWORD=myuberpassword
KEYCLOAK_USER=admin
KEYCLOAK_PASSWORD=ilovepasswords
# This is required to run keycloak behind traefik
PROXY_ADDRESS_FORWARDING=true
# What's our hostname?
KEYCLOAK_HOSTNAME=keycloak.batcave.com
# Tell Postgress what user/password to create
POSTGRES_USER=keycloak
POSTGRES_PASSWORD=myuberpassword
Create /var/data/keycloak/keycloak-backup.env, and populate with the following, so that your database can be backed up to the filesystem, daily:
PGHOST=keycloak-db
PGUSER=keycloak
PGPASSWORD=myuberpassword
BACKUP_NUM_KEEP=7
BACKUP_FREQUENCY=1d
Setup Docker Swarm
Create a docker swarm config file in docker-compose syntax (v3), something like this:
!!! tip
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version: '3'
services:
keycloak:
image: jboss/keycloak
env_file: /var/data/config/keycloak/keycloak.env
volumes:
- /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro
networks:
- traefik_public
- internal
deploy:
labels:
- traefik.frontend.rule=Host:keycloak.batcave.com
- traefik.port=8080
- traefik.docker.network=traefik_public
keycloak-db:
env_file: /var/data/config/keycloak/keycloak.env
image: postgres:10.1
volumes:
- /var/data/runtime/keycloak/database:/var/lib/postgresql/data
- /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro
networks:
- internal
keycloak-db-backup:
image: postgres:10.1
env_file: /var/data/config/keycloak/keycloak-backup.env
volumes:
- /var/data/keycloak/database-dump:/dump
- /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro
entrypoint: |
bash -c 'bash -s <<EOF
trap "break;exit" SIGHUP SIGINT SIGTERM
sleep 2m
while /bin/true; do
pg_dump -Fc > /dump/dump_\`date +%d-%m-%Y"_"%H_%M_%S\`.psql
(ls -t /dump/dump*.psql|head -n $$BACKUP_NUM_KEEP;ls /dump/dump*.psql)|sort|uniq -u|xargs rm -- {}
sleep $$BACKUP_FREQUENCY
done
EOF'
networks:
- internal
networks:
traefik_public:
external: true
internal:
driver: overlay
ipam:
config:
- subnet: 172.16.49.0/24
!!! note Setup unique static subnets for every stack you deploy. This avoids IP/gateway conflicts which can otherwise occur when you're creating/removing stacks a lot. See my list here.
Serving
Launch KeyCloak stack
Launch the KeyCloak stack by running docker stack deploy keycloak -c <path -to-docker-compose.yml>
Log into your new instance at https://YOUR-FQDN, and login with the user/password you defined in keycloak.env.
Integrating into OpenLDAP
KeyCloak gets really sexy when you integrate it into your OpenLDAP stack (also, it's great not to have to play with ugly LDAP tree UIs).
You'll need to have completed the OpenLDAP recipe
You start in the "Master" realm - but mouseover the realm name, to a dropdown box allowing you add an new realm:
Enter a name for your new realm, and click "Create":
Once in the desired realm, click on User Federation, and click Add Provider. On the next page ("Required Settings"), set the following:
- Edit Mode : Writeable
- Vendor : Other
- Connection URL : ldap://openldap
- Users DN : ou=People,<your base DN>
- Authentication Type : simple
- Bind DN : cn=admin,<your base DN>
- Bind Credential : <your chosen admin password>
Save your changes, and then navigate back to "User Federation" > Your LDAP name > Mappers:
For each of the following mappers, click the name, and set the "Read Only" flag to "Off" (this enables 2-way sync between KeyCloak and OpenLDAP)
- last name
- username
- first name
!!! important Development of this recipe is sponsored by The Common Observatory. Thanks guys!
[](https://www.observe.global/)
Chef's Notes
- I wanted to be able to add multiple networks to KeyCloak (i.e., a dedicated overlay network for LDAP authentication), but the entrypoint used by the container produces an error when more than one network is configured. This could theoretically be corrected in future, with a PR, but the GitHub repo has no issues enabled, so I wasn't sure where to start.
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