nixpkgs/nixos/modules/services/web-apps/keycloak.xml
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keycloak: Switch to the new Quarkus version of Keycloak
With version 17 of Keycloak, the Wildfly based distribution was
deprecated in favor of the one based on Quarkus. The difference in
configuration is massive and to accommodate it, both the package and
module had to be rewritten.
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<chapter xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
version="5.0"
xml:id="module-services-keycloak">
<title>Keycloak</title>
<para>
<link xlink:href="https://www.keycloak.org/">Keycloak</link> is an
open source identity and access management server with support for
<link xlink:href="https://openid.net/connect/">OpenID
Connect</link>, <link xlink:href="https://oauth.net/2/">OAUTH
2.0</link> and <link
xlink:href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAML_2.0">SAML
2.0</link>.
</para>
<section xml:id="module-services-keycloak-admin">
<title>Administration</title>
<para>
An administrative user with the username
<literal>admin</literal> is automatically created in the
<literal>master</literal> realm. Its initial password can be
configured by setting <xref linkend="opt-services.keycloak.initialAdminPassword" />
and defaults to <literal>changeme</literal>. The password is
not stored safely and should be changed immediately in the
admin panel.
</para>
<para>
Refer to the <link
xlink:href="https://www.keycloak.org/docs/latest/server_admin/index.html">
Keycloak Server Administration Guide</link> for information on
how to administer your <productname>Keycloak</productname>
instance.
</para>
</section>
<section xml:id="module-services-keycloak-database">
<title>Database access</title>
<para>
<productname>Keycloak</productname> can be used with either
<productname>PostgreSQL</productname>,
<productname>MariaDB</productname> or
<productname>MySQL</productname>. Which one is used can be
configured in <xref
linkend="opt-services.keycloak.database.type" />. The selected
database will automatically be enabled and a database and role
created unless <xref
linkend="opt-services.keycloak.database.host" /> is changed
from its default of <literal>localhost</literal> or <xref
linkend="opt-services.keycloak.database.createLocally" /> is
set to <literal>false</literal>.
</para>
<para>
External database access can also be configured by setting
<xref linkend="opt-services.keycloak.database.host" />, <xref
linkend="opt-services.keycloak.database.name" />, <xref
linkend="opt-services.keycloak.database.username" />, <xref
linkend="opt-services.keycloak.database.useSSL" /> and <xref
linkend="opt-services.keycloak.database.caCert" /> as
appropriate. Note that you need to manually create the database
and allow the configured database user full access to it.
</para>
<para>
<xref linkend="opt-services.keycloak.database.passwordFile" />
must be set to the path to a file containing the password used
to log in to the database. If <xref linkend="opt-services.keycloak.database.host" />
and <xref linkend="opt-services.keycloak.database.createLocally" />
are kept at their defaults, the database role
<literal>keycloak</literal> with that password is provisioned
on the local database instance.
</para>
<warning>
<para>
The path should be provided as a string, not a Nix path, since Nix
paths are copied into the world readable Nix store.
</para>
</warning>
</section>
<section xml:id="module-services-keycloak-hostname">
<title>Hostname</title>
<para>
The hostname is used to build the public URL used as base for
all frontend requests and must be configured through <xref
linkend="opt-services.keycloak.settings.hostname" />.
</para>
<note>
<para>
If you're migrating an old Wildfly based Keycloak instance
and want to keep compatibility with your current clients,
you'll likely want to set <xref
linkend="opt-services.keycloak.settings.http-relative-path"
/> to <literal>/auth</literal>. See the option description
for more details.
</para>
</note>
<para>
<xref linkend="opt-services.keycloak.settings.hostname-strict-backchannel" />
determines whether Keycloak should force all requests to go
through the frontend URL. By default,
<productname>Keycloak</productname> allows backend requests to
instead use its local hostname or IP address and may also
advertise it to clients through its OpenID Connect Discovery
endpoint.
</para>
<para>
For more information on hostname configuration, see the <link
xlink:href="https://www.keycloak.org/server/hostname">Hostname
section of the Keycloak Server Installation and Configuration
Guide</link>.
</para>
</section>
<section xml:id="module-services-keycloak-tls">
<title>Setting up TLS/SSL</title>
<para>
By default, <productname>Keycloak</productname> won't accept
unsecured HTTP connections originating from outside its local
network.
</para>
<para>
HTTPS support requires a TLS/SSL certificate and a private key,
both <link
xlink:href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privacy-Enhanced_Mail">PEM
formatted</link>. Their paths should be set through <xref
linkend="opt-services.keycloak.sslCertificate" /> and <xref
linkend="opt-services.keycloak.sslCertificateKey" />.
</para>
<warning>
<para>
The paths should be provided as a strings, not a Nix paths,
since Nix paths are copied into the world readable Nix store.
</para>
</warning>
</section>
<section xml:id="module-services-keycloak-themes">
<title>Themes</title>
<para>
You can package custom themes and make them visible to
Keycloak through <xref linkend="opt-services.keycloak.themes"
/>. See the <link
xlink:href="https://www.keycloak.org/docs/latest/server_development/#_themes">
Themes section of the Keycloak Server Development Guide</link>
and the description of the aforementioned NixOS option for
more information.
</para>
</section>
<section xml:id="module-services-keycloak-settings">
<title>Configuration file settings</title>
<para>
Keycloak server configuration parameters can be set in <xref
linkend="opt-services.keycloak.settings" />. These correspond
directly to options in
<filename>conf/keycloak.conf</filename>. Some of the most
important parameters are documented as suboptions, the rest can
be found in the <link
xlink:href="https://www.keycloak.org/server/all-config">All
configuration section of the Keycloak Server Installation and
Configuration Guide</link>.
</para>
<para>
Options containing secret data should be set to an attribute
set containing the attribute <literal>_secret</literal> - a
string pointing to a file containing the value the option
should be set to. See the description of <xref
linkend="opt-services.keycloak.settings" /> for an example.
</para>
</section>
<section xml:id="module-services-keycloak-example-config">
<title>Example configuration</title>
<para>
A basic configuration with some custom settings could look like this:
<programlisting>
services.keycloak = {
<link linkend="opt-services.keycloak.enable">enable</link> = true;
settings = {
<link linkend="opt-services.keycloak.settings.hostname">hostname</link> = "keycloak.example.com";
<link linkend="opt-services.keycloak.settings.hostname-strict-backchannel">hostname-strict-backchannel</link> = true;
};
<link linkend="opt-services.keycloak.initialAdminPassword">initialAdminPassword</link> = "e6Wcm0RrtegMEHl"; # change on first login
<link linkend="opt-services.keycloak.sslCertificate">sslCertificate</link> = "/run/keys/ssl_cert";
<link linkend="opt-services.keycloak.sslCertificateKey">sslCertificateKey</link> = "/run/keys/ssl_key";
<link linkend="opt-services.keycloak.database.passwordFile">database.passwordFile</link> = "/run/keys/db_password";
};
</programlisting>
</para>
</section>
</chapter>