Simple Keycloak Guard for Laravel
This package helps you authenticate users on a Laravel API based on JWT tokens generated from Keycloak Server.
Requirements
โ๏ธ I`m building an API with Laravel.
โ๏ธ I will not use Laravel Passport for authentication, because Keycloak Server will do the job.
โ๏ธ I already have an "users table", with unique identifiers, on my database.
โ๏ธ The frontend is a separated project.
โ๏ธ The frontend users authenticate directly on Keycloak Server to obtain a JWT token. This process have nothing to do with the Laravel API.
โ๏ธ The frontend keep the JWT token from Keycloak Server.
โ๏ธ The frontend make requests to the Laravel API, with that token.
The flow
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The frontend user authenticates on Keycloak Server
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The frontend user obtains a JWT token.
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In another moment, the frontend user makes a request to some protected endpoint on a Laravel API, with that token.
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The Laravel API (through
Keycloak Guard
) handle it.- Verify token signature.
- Verify token structure.
- Verify token expiration time.
- Verify if my API allows
resource access
from token.
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If everything is ok, find the user on database and authenticate it on my API.
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Return response
Install
Require the package
composer require robsontenorio/laravel-keycloak-guard
Publish the config file
php artisan vendor:publish --provider="KeycloakGuard\KeycloakGuardServiceProvider"
Configuration
Keycloak Guard
The Keycloak Guard configuration can be handled from Laravel .env
file.
<?php
return [
'realm_public_key' => env('KEYCLOAK_REALM_PUBLIC_KEY', null),
'user_provider_credential' => env('KEYCLOAK_USER_PROVIDER_CREDENTIAL', 'username'),
'token_principal_attribute' => env('KEYCLOAK_TOKEN_PRINCIPAL_ATTRIBUTE', 'preferred_username'),
'append_decoded_token' => env('KEYCLOAK_APPEND_DECODED_TOKEN', false),
'allowed_resources' => env('KEYCLOAK_ALLOWED_RESOURCES', null)
];
โ๏ธ realm_public_key
Required.
The Keycloak Server realm public key (string).
โ๏ธ user_provider_credential
Required. Default is username
.
Any field from "users" table that contains the user unique identifier (eg. username, email, nickname). This will be confronted against token_principal_attribute
attribute, while authenticating.
โ๏ธ token_principal_attribute
Required. Default is preferred_username
.
The property from JWT token that contains the user identifier.
This will be confronted against user_provider_credential
attribute, while authenticating.
โ๏ธ append_decoded_token
Default is false
.
Appends to the authenticated user the full decoded JWT token. Useful if you need to know roles, groups and another user info holded by JWT token. Even choosing false
, you can also get it using Auth::token()
, see API section.
โ๏ธ allowed_resources
Required
Usually you API should handle one resource_access. But, if you handle multiples, just use a comma separated list of allowed resources accepted by API. This attribute will be confronted against resource_access
attribute from JWT token, while authenticating.
Laravel auth config
Changes on config/auth.php
'defaults' => [
'guard' => 'api', # <-- For sure, i`m building an API
'passwords' => 'users',
],
'guards' => [
'api' => [
'driver' => 'keycloak', # <-- Set the API guard driver to "keycloak"
'provider' => 'users',
],
],
API
Simple Keycloak Guard implements Illuminate\Contracts\Auth\Guard
. So, all Laravel default methods will be available. Ex: Auth::user()
returns the authenticated user.
Default methods:
- check()
- guest()
- user()
- id()
- validate()
- setUser()
Keycloak Guard methods:
- token()
Ex: Auth::token()
returns full decoded JWT token from authenticated user
Contact
Twitter @robsontenorio