Keycloak Admin Ruby

Ruby client that acts as a client for the Keycloak REST API. This gem basically acts as an url builder using http-client to get responses and serialize them into representation objects.

Warning: This beta gem is currently used for personal use. Most Keycloak Admin features are not implemented yet.

Install

This gem does not require Rails. For example, using bundle, add this line to your Gemfile.

gem "keycloak-admin", "1.1.3"

Login

To login on Keycloak's Admin API, you first need to setup a client.

Go to your realm administration page and open Clients. Then, click on the Create button. On the first screen, enter:

Client ID: e.g. my-app-admin-client
Client Protocol: select openid-connect
Root URL: let it blank

The next screen must be configured depending on how you want to authenticate:

username/password with a user of the realm
Direct Access Grants with a service account

Login with username/password (realm user)

In Keycloak, during the client setup:
- Access Type: public or confidential
- Service Accounts Enabled (when confidential): false
- After saving your client, if you have chosen a confidential client, go to Credentials tab and copy the Client Secret
In Keycloak, create a dedicated user (and her credentials):
- Go to Users
- Click on the Add user button
- Setup her mandatory information, depending on your realm's configuration
- On the Credentials tab, create her a password (toggle off Temporary)
In this gem's configuration (see Section Configuration):
- Setup username and password according to your user's configuration
- Setup client_id with your Client ID (e.g. my-app-admin-client)
- If your client is confidential, copy its Client Secret to client_secret

Login with `Direct Access Grants` (Service account)

Using a service account to use the REST Admin API does not require to create a dedicated user (https://www.keycloak.org/docs/latest/server_admin/#_service_accounts).

In Keycloak, during the client setup:
- Access Type: confidential
- Service Accounts Enabled (when confidential): true
- Standard Flow Enabled: false
- Implicit Flow Enabled: false
- Direct Access Grants Enabled: true
- After saving this client
  - open the Service Account Roles and add relevant realm-management. client's roles. For instance: view-users if you want to search for users using this gem.
  - open the Credentials tab and copy the Client Secret
In this gem's configuration (see Section Configuration):
- Set use_service_account to true
- Setup client_id with your Client ID (e.g. my-app-admin-client)
- Copy its Client Secret to client_secret

Configuration

To configure this gem, call KeycloakAdmin.configure. For instance, to configure this gem based on environment variables, write (and load if required) a keycloak_admin.rb:

KeycloakAdmin.configure do |config|
  config.use_service_account = false
  config.server_url          = ENV["KEYCLOAK_SERVER_URL"]
  config.server_domain       = ENV["KEYCLOAK_SERVER_DOMAIN"]
  config.client_id           = ENV["KEYCLOAK_ADMIN_CLIENT_ID"]
  config.client_realm_name   = ENV["KEYCLOAK_REALM_ID"]
  config.username            = ENV["KEYCLOAK_ADMIN_USER"]
  config.password            = ENV["KEYCLOAK_ADMIN_PASSWORD"]
  config.logger              = Rails.logger

  # You configure RestClient to your liking – see https://github.com/rest-client/rest-client/blob/master/lib/restclient/request.rb for available options.
  config.rest_client_options = { timeout: 5 }
end

This example is autoloaded in a Rails environment.

Overall configuration options

All options have a default value. However, all of them can be changed in your initializer file.

Option	Default Value	Type	Required?	Description	Example
`server_url`	`nil`	String	Required	The base url where your Keycloak server is located (a URL that starts with `http` and that ends with `/auth`). This value can be retrieved in your Keycloak client configuration.	`http://auth:8080/auth`
`server_domain`	`nil`	String	Required	Public domain that identify your authentication cookies.	`auth.service.io`
`client_realm_name`	`""`	String	Required	Name of the realm that contains the admin client.	`master`
`client_id`	`admin-cli`	String	Required	Client that should be used to access admin capabilities.	`api-cli`
`client_secret`	`nil`	String	Optional	If your client is `confidential`, this parameter must be specified.	`4e3c481c-f823-4a6a-b8a7-bf8c86e3eac3`
`use_service_account`	`true`	Boolean	Required	`true` if the connection to the client uses a Service Account. `false` if the connection to the client uses a username/password credential.	`false`
`username`	`nil`	String	Optional	Username to access the Admin REST API. Recommended if `user_service_account` is set to `false`.	`mummy`
`password`	`nil`	String	Optional	Clear password to access the Admin REST API. Recommended if `user_service_account` is set to `false`.	`bobby`
`logger`	`Logger.new(STDOUT)`	Logger	Optional	The logger used by `keycloak-admin`	`Rails.logger`
`rest_client_options`	`{}`	Hash	Optional	Options to pass to `RestClient`	`{ timeout: 5 }`

Use Cases

Supported features

Get an access token
Create/update/get/delete a user
Get list of users, search for user(s)
Reset credentials
Impersonate a user
Exchange a configurable token
Get list of clients, or find a client by its id or client_id
Create, update, and delete clients
Get list of groups, create/save a group
Get list of roles, save a role
Get list of realms, save/update/delete a realm
Get list of client role mappings for a user/group
Get list of members of a group
Get list of groups that have a specific role assigned
Get list of realm-roles assigned to a group, add a realm-role to a group
Save client role mappings for a user/group
Save realm-level role mappings for a user/group
Add a Group on a User
Remove a Group from a User
Get list of Identity Providers
Create Identity Providers
Link/Unlink users to federated identity provider brokers
Execute actions emails
Send forgot passsword mail
Client Authorization, create, update, get, delete Resource, Scope, Policy, Permission, Policy Enforcer

Get an access token

Returns an instance of KeycloakAdmin::TokenRepresentation.

KeycloakAdmin.realm("a_realm").token.get

Get a user from its identifier

Returns an instance of KeycloakAdmin::UserRepresentation or nil when this user does not exist.

user_id = "95985b21-d884-4bbd-b852-cb8cd365afc2"
KeycloakAdmin.realm("a_realm").users.get(user_id)

Search for users

Returns an array of KeycloakAdmin::UserRepresentation.

According to the documentation:

When providing a String parameter, this produces an arbitrary search string
When providing a Hash, you can search for specific field (e.g an email)

KeycloakAdmin.realm("a_realm").users.search("a_username_or_an_email")

KeycloakAdmin.realm("a_realm").users.search({ email: "john@doe.com" })

List all users in a realm

Returns an array of KeycloakAdmin::UserRepresentation.

KeycloakAdmin.realm("a_realm").users.list

Save a user

Returns the provided user, which must be of type KeycloakAdmin::UserRepresentation.

KeycloakAdmin.realm("a_realm").users.save(user)

Update a user

If you want to update its entire entity. To update some specific attributes, provide an object implementing to_json, such as a Hash.

KeycloakAdmin.realm("a_realm").users.update("05c135c6-5ad8-4e17-b1fa-635fc089fd71", {
  email: "hello@gmail.com",
  username: "hello",
  first_name: "Jean",
  last_name: "Dupond"
})

Attention point: Since Keycloak 24.0.4, when updating a user, all the writable profile attributes must be passed, otherwise they will be removed. (https://www.keycloak.org/docs/24.0.4/upgrading/)

Delete a user

KeycloakAdmin.realm("a_realm").users.delete(user_id)

Create and save a user with password and a locale

Returns the created user of type KeycloakAdmin::UserRepresentation.

username       = "pioupioux"
email          = "pioupioux@email.com"
password       = "acme0"
email_verified = true
locale         = "en"
KeycloakAdmin.realm("a_realm").users.create!(username, email, password, email_verified, locale)

Reset a password

user_id      = "95985b21-d884-4bbd-b852-cb8cd365afc2"
new_password = "coco"
KeycloakAdmin.realm("a_realm").users.update_password(user_id, new_password)

Impersonate a password directly

Returns an instance of KeycloakAdmin::ImpersonationRepresentation.

user_id = "95985b21-d884-4bbd-b852-cb8cd365afc2"
KeycloakAdmin.realm("a_realm").users.impersonate(user_id)

Impersonate a password indirectly

To have enough information to execute an impersonation by yourself, get_redirect_impersonation returns an instance of KeycloakAdmin::ImpersonationRedirectionRepresentation.

user_id = "95985b21-d884-4bbd-b852-cb8cd365afc2"
KeycloakAdmin.realm("a_realm").users.get_redirect_impersonation(user_id)

Exchange a configurable token

Requires your Keycloak server to have deployed the Custom REST API configurable-token (https://github.com/looorent/keycloak-configurable-token-api) Returns an instance of KeycloakAdmin::TokenRepresentation.

user_access_token         = "abqsdofnqdsogn"
token_lifespan_in_seconds = 20
KeycloakAdmin.realm("a_realm").configurable_token.exchange_with(user_access_token, token_lifespan_in_seconds)

Get list of realms

Returns an array of KeycloakAdmin::RealmRepresentation.

KeycloakAdmin.realm("master").list

Save a realm

Takes realm of type KeycloakAdmin::RealmRepresentation, or an object implementing to_json, such as a Hash.

KeycloakAdmin.realm(nil).save(realm)

Update a realm

If you want to update its entire entity. To update some specific attributes, provide an object implementing to_json, such as a Hash.

KeycloakAdmin.realm("a_realm").update({
  smtpServer: { host: 'test_host' }
})

Delete a realm

KeycloakAdmin.realm("a_realm").delete

Get list of clients in a realm

Returns an array of KeycloakAdmin::ClientRepresentation or a single KeycloakAdmin::ClientRepresentation

Finding a client by its client_id is a somewhat slow operation, as it requires fetching all clients and then filtering. Keycloak's API does not support fetching a client by its client_id directly.

KeycloakAdmin.realm("a_realm").clients.list
KeycloakAdmin.realm("a_realm").clients.get(id) # id is Keycloak's database id, not the client_id
KeycloakAdmin.realm("a_realm").clients.find_by_client_id(client_id)

Updating a client

my_client = KeycloakAdmin.realm("a_realm").clients.get(id)

my_client.name        = "My new client name"
my_client.description = "This is a new description"
my_client.redirect_uris << "https://www.example.com/auth/callback"

KeycloakAdmin.realm("a_realm").clients.update(client) # Returns the updated client

Get list of groups in a realm

Returns an array of KeycloakAdmin::GroupRepresentation.

KeycloakAdmin.realm("a_realm").groups.list

Search for a group

Returns an array of KeycloakAdmin::GroupRepresentation.

According to the documentation:

When providing a String parameter, this produces an arbitrary search string
When providing a Hash, you can specify other fields (e.g q, max, first)

KeycloakAdmin.realm("a_realm").groups.search("MyGroup")

KeycloakAdmin.realm("a_realm").groups.search({query: "MyGroup", exact: true, max: 1})

Save a group

Returns the id of saved group provided, which must be of type KeycloakAdmin::GroupRepresentation.

KeycloakAdmin.realm("a_realm").groups.save(group)

Create and save a group with a name and path

Returns the id of created group.

group_name = "test"
group_path = "/top"
group_id = KeycloakAdmin.realm("a_realm").groups.create!(group_name, group_path)

Create a new subgroup of an existing group

Create a new group as the child of an existing group.

parent_id = "7686af34-204c-4515-8122-78d19febbf6e"
group_name = "test"
sub_group_id = KeycloakAdmin.realm("a_realm").groups.create_subgroup!(parent_id, group_name)

Get list of members of a group

Returns an array of KeycloakAdmin::UserRepresentation.

KeycloakAdmin.realm("a_realm").group("group_id").members

You can specify paging with first and max:

KeycloakAdmin.realm("a_realm").group("group_id").members(first:0, max:100)

Get list of groups that have a specific role assigned

Returns an array of KeycloakAdmin::GroupRepresentation

KeycloakAdmin.realm("a_realm").roles.list_groups("role_name")

Get list of realm-roles assigned to a group

Returns an array of KeycloakAdmin::RoleRepresentation

KeycloakAdmin.realm("a_realm").groups.get_realm_level_roles("group_id")

Add a realm-role to a group

Returns added KeycloakAdmin::RoleRepresentation

KeycloakAdmin.realm("a_realm").groups.add_realm_level_role_name!("group_id", "role_name")

Get list of roles in a realm

Returns an array of KeycloakAdmin::RoleRepresentation.

KeycloakAdmin.realm("a_realm").roles.list

Save a role

Takes role, which must be of type KeycloakAdmin::RoleRepresentation.

KeycloakAdmin.realm("a_realm").roles.save(role)

Get list of client role mappings for a user/group

Returns an array of KeycloakAdmin::RoleRepresentation.

user_id   = "95985b21-d884-4bbd-b852-cb8cd365afc2"
client_id = "1869e876-71b4-4de2-849e-66540db3a098"
KeycloakAdmin.realm("a_realm").user(user_id).client_role_mappings(client_id).list_available

group_id  = "3a63b5c0-ef8a-47fd-86ed-b5fead18d9b8"
client_id = "1869e876-71b4-4de2-849e-66540db3a098"
KeycloakAdmin.realm("a_realm").group(group_id).client_role_mappings(client_id).list_available

Save list of client role mappings for a user/group

Takes role_list, which must be an array of type KeycloakAdmin::RoleRepresentation.

user_id   = "95985b21-d884-4bbd-b852-cb8cd365afc2"
client_id = "1869e876-71b4-4de2-849e-66540db3a098"
KeycloakAdmin.realm("a_realm").user(user_id).client_role_mappings(client_id).save(role_list)

group_id  = "3a63b5c0-ef8a-47fd-86ed-b5fead18d9b8"
client_id = "1869e876-71b4-4de2-849e-66540db3a098"
KeycloakAdmin.realm("a_realm").group(group_id).client_role_mappings(client_id).save(role_list)

Save list of realm-level role mappings for a user/group

Takes role_list, which must be an array of type KeycloakAdmin::RoleRepresentation.

user_id   = "95985b21-d884-4bbd-b852-cb8cd365afc2"
KeycloakAdmin.realm("a_realm").user(user_id).role_mapper.save_realm_level(role_list)

group_id  = "3a63b5c0-ef8a-47fd-86ed-b5fead18d9b8"
KeycloakAdmin.realm("a_realm").group(group_id).role_mapper.save_realm_level(role_list)

Get list of identity providers

Note: This client requires the realm-management.view-identity-providers role.

Returns an array of KeycloakAdmin::IdentityProviderRepresentation.

KeycloakAdmin.realm("a_realm").identity_providers.list

Manage Client Authorization Resources & Scopes

In order to use authorization, you need to enable the client's authorization_services_enabled attribute.

client_id = "dummy-client"
client = KeycloakAdmin.realm("realm_a").clients.find_by_client_id(client_id)
client.authorization_services_enabled = true
KeycloakAdmin.realm("a_realm").clients.update(client)

Create a scope

Returns added KeycloakAdmin::ClientAuthzScopeRepresentation

KeycloakAdmin.realm("a_realm").authz_scopes(client_id).create!("POST_1", "POST 1 scope description", "http://icon.url")

Search for scope

Returns array of KeycloakAdmin::ClientAuthzScopeRepresentation

KeycloakAdmin.realm("a_realm").authz_scopes(client.id).search("POST")

Get one scope by its id

Returns KeycloakAdmin::ClientAuthzScopeRepresentation

KeycloakAdmin.realm("a_realm").authz_scopes(client.id).get(scope_id)

Delete one scope

KeycloakAdmin.realm("a_realm").authz_scopes(client.id).delete(scope.id)

Create a client authorization resource

note: for scopes, use {name: scope.name} to reference the scope object

Returns added KeycloakAdmin::ClientAuthzResourceRepresentation

KeycloakAdmin.realm("realm_id")
        .authz_resources(client.id)
        .create!(
                "Dummy Resource", 
                "type", 
                ["/resource_1/*", "/resource_1/"], 
                true, 
                "display_name", 
                [ {name: scope_1.name} ], 
                {"attribute": ["value_1", "value_2"]}
        )

Update a client authorization resource

Returns updated KeycloakAdmin::ClientAuthzResourceRepresentation

note: for scopes, use {name: scope.name} to reference the scope object

KeycloakAdmin.realm("realm_a")
        .authz_resources(client.id)
        .update(resource.id,
                       {
                         "name": "Dummy Resource",
                         "type": "type",
                         "owner_managed_access": true,
                         "display_name": "display_name",
                         "attributes": {"a":["b","c"]},
                         "uris": [ "/resource_1/*" , "/resource_1/" ],
                         "scopes":[
                           {name: scope_1.name},
                           {name: scope_2.name}
                         ],
                         "icon_uri": "https://icon.url"
                       })

Find client authorization resources by (name, type, uri, owner, scope)

Returns array of KeycloakAdmin::ClientAuthzResourceRepresentation

KeycloakAdmin.realm("realm_a").authz_resources(client.id).find_by("Dummy Resource", "", "", "", "")

KeycloakAdmin.realm("realm_a").authz_resources(client.id).find_by("", "type", "", "", "")

Get client authorization resource by its id

Returns KeycloakAdmin::ClientAuthzResourceRepresentation

KeycloakAdmin.realm("realm_a").authz_resources(client.id).get(resource.id)

delete a client authorization resource

KeycloakAdmin.realm("realm_a").authz_resources(client.id).delete(resource.id)

Create a client authorization policy

Note: for the moment only role policies are supported.

Returns added KeycloakAdmin::ClientAuthzPolicyRepresentation

 KeycloakAdmin.realm("realm_a")
        .authz_policies(client.id, 'role')
        .create!("Policy 1", 
                 "description", 
                 "role", 
                 "POSITIVE", 
                 "UNANIMOUS", 
                 true, 
                 [{id: realm_role.id, required: true}]
        )

Find client authorization policies by (name, type)

Returns array of KeycloakAdmin::ClientAuthzPolicyRepresentation

KeycloakAdmin.realm("realm_a").authz_policies(client.id, 'role').find_by("Policy 1", "role")

Get client authorization policy by its id

Returns KeycloakAdmin::ClientAuthzPolicyRepresentation

KeycloakAdmin.realm("realm_a").authz_policies(client.id, 'role').get(policy.id)

Delete a client authorization policy

KeycloakAdmin.realm("realm_a").authz_policies(client.id, 'role').delete(policy.id)

Create a client authorization permission (Resource type)

Returns added KeycloakAdmin::ClientAuthzPermissionRepresentation

KeycloakAdmin.realm("realm_a")
        .authz_permissions(client.id, :resource)
        .create!("Dummy Resource Permission", 
                 "resource description", 
                 "UNANIMOUS", 
                 "POSITIVE",
                 [resource.id], 
                 [policy.id],
                 nil, 
                 ""
        )

Create a client authorization permission (Scope type)

Returns added KeycloakAdmin::ClientAuthzPermissionRepresentation

KeycloakAdmin.realm("realm_a")
        .authz_permissions(client.id, :scope)
        .create!("Dummy Scope Permission", 
                 "scope description", 
                 "UNANIMOUS", 
                 "POSITIVE", 
                 [resource.id], 
                 [policy.id], 
                 [scope_1.id, scope_2.id], 
                 ""
        )

List a resource authorization permissions (all: scope or resource)

Return array of KeycloakAdmin::ClientAuthzPermissionRepresentation

KeycloakAdmin.realm("realm_a").authz_permissions(client.id, "", resource.id).list

List a resource authorization permissions (by type: resource)

Return array of KeycloakAdmin::ClientAuthzPermissionRepresentation

KeycloakAdmin.realm("realm_a").authz_permissions(client.id, 'resource').list

List a resource authorization permissions (by type: scope)

Return array of KeycloakAdmin::ClientAuthzPermissionRepresentation

authz_permissions(client.id, 'scope').list.size

Find client authorization permissions by (name, type, scope)

Return array of KeycloakAdmin::ClientAuthzPermissionRepresentation

KeycloakAdmin.realm("realm_a").authz_permissions(client.id, "resource").find_by(resource_permission.name, nil)

KeycloakAdmin.realm("realm_a").authz_permissions(client.id, "resource").find_by(resource_permission.name, nil)

KeycloakAdmin.realm("realm_a").authz_permissions(client.id, "resource").find_by(resource_permission.name, resource.id)

KeycloakAdmin.realm("realm_a").authz_permissions(client.id, "scope").find_by(scope_permission.name, resource.id)

KeycloakAdmin.realm("realm_a").authz_permissions(client.id, "scope").find_by(scope_permission.name, resource.id, "POST_1")

KeycloakAdmin.realm("realm_a").authz_permissions(client.id, "resource").find_by(nil, resource.id)

KeycloakAdmin.realm("realm_a").authz_permissions(client.id, "scope").find_by(nil, resource.id)

KeycloakAdmin.realm("realm_a").authz_permissions(client.id, "scope").find_by(nil, resource.id, "POST_1")

KeycloakAdmin.realm("realm_a").authz_permissions(client.id, "scope").find_by(scope_permission.name, nil)

Delete a client authorization permission, scope type

KeycloakAdmin.realm("realm_a").authz_permissions(client.id, 'scope').delete(scope.id)

Delete a client authorization permission, resource type

 KeycloakAdmin.realm("realm_a").authz_permissions(client.id, 'resource').delete(resource_permission.id)

How to execute library tests

From the keycloak-admin-api directory:

  $ docker build . -t keycloak-admin:test
  $ docker run -v `pwd`:/usr/src/app/ keycloak-admin:test rspec spec

keycloak-admin

Development

Runtime

Keycloak Admin Ruby

Install

Login

Login with username/password (realm user)

Login with Direct Access Grants (Service account)

Configuration

Overall configuration options

Use Cases

Supported features

Get an access token

Get a user from its identifier

Search for users

List all users in a realm

Save a user

Update a user

Delete a user

Create and save a user with password and a locale

Reset a password

Impersonate a password directly

Impersonate a password indirectly

Exchange a configurable token

Get list of realms

Save a realm

Update a realm

Delete a realm

Get list of clients in a realm

Updating a client

Get list of groups in a realm

Search for a group

Save a group

Create and save a group with a name and path

Create a new subgroup of an existing group

Get list of members of a group

Get list of groups that have a specific role assigned

Get list of realm-roles assigned to a group

Add a realm-role to a group

Get list of roles in a realm

Save a role

Get list of client role mappings for a user/group

Save list of client role mappings for a user/group

Save list of realm-level role mappings for a user/group

Get list of identity providers

Manage Client Authorization Resources & Scopes

Create a scope

Search for scope

Get one scope by its id

Delete one scope

Create a client authorization resource

Update a client authorization resource

Find client authorization resources by (name, type, uri, owner, scope)

Get client authorization resource by its id

delete a client authorization resource

Create a client authorization policy

Find client authorization policies by (name, type)

Get client authorization policy by its id

Delete a client authorization policy

Create a client authorization permission (Resource type)

Create a client authorization permission (Scope type)

List a resource authorization permissions (all: scope or resource)

List a resource authorization permissions (by type: resource)

List a resource authorization permissions (by type: scope)

Find client authorization permissions by (name, type, scope)

Delete a client authorization permission, scope type

Delete a client authorization permission, resource type

How to execute library tests

Login with `Direct Access Grants` (Service account)