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In this video, you'll see how to integrate Keycloak, a powerful open-source identity and access management solution, with your .NET application. This step-by-step guide covers everything from setting up Keycloak and configuring your .NET project to implementing robust authentication and authorization features.

Whether you're a beginner or an experienced developer, this tutorial will equip you with the knowledge to enhance your .NET application's security. Learn essential topics, including user authentication and API endpoint security, while gaining insights into best practices and common pitfalls to avoid. Follow along to take your authentication and authorization capabilities to the next level!

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Chapters
0:00 What is Keycloak?
2:01 Keycloak - quick setup
4:17 Integrating OAuth Implicit Flow
8:16 Adding JWT Authentication in .NET
11:46 Keycloak authentication - deep dive

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Learn how to secure your .NET application using Keycloak, an open-source identity provider compatible with OAuth2 and OpenID. This guide covers setting up a Keycloak realm and client, configuring authentication with JSON Web Tokens (JWT), and implementing an API endpoint for user claims. The tutorial also dives into using distributed tracing with OpenTelemetry to validate and debug your authentication setup.

Secure Your .NET Application With Keycloak: Step-by-Step Guide

i tried keycloak. man that thing is not intuitive to setup.

Keycloak is a very good tool, but setting it up in different frameworks and servers can be a challenge.
But when that is managed it’s very good.
Another bad note is Keycloak documentation is not that great