Manage Keycloak using Admin REST API

This story will explain how to interact with the Keycloak server using REST API without any programming language.

· Prerequisites
· Overview
∘ What is Keycloak?
∘ Key Features of Keycloak
· Set up Keycloak
∘ Start Keycloak instance
∘ Create a realm
∘ Securing the Realm
· Invoking Keycloak’s REST endpoints
∘ Get the access token
∘ Create a new user
∘ Get users
· Conclusion
· References

Prerequisites

This is the list of all the prerequisites:

• Docker / Docker-compose installed (optional if you’ve already downloaded and installed Keycloak from https://www.keycloak.org/downloads)
• Postman / insomnia or any other API testing tool.

Overview

What is Keycloak?

Keycloak is an open-source software product to allow single sign-on with identity and access management aimed at modern applications and services. Until April 2023, this WildFly community project…