Kong
Keycloak
Kong | Keycloak | |
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18 | 231 | |
37,590 | 19,946 | |
0.7% | 2.2% | |
9.9 | 10.0 | |
about 15 hours ago | 5 days ago | |
Lua | Java | |
Apache License 2.0 | Apache License 2.0 |
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Kong
- Kong 3.6 with LLM Support
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5 Ways to Improve Your API Reliability
Kong: A cloud-native, fast, scalable, and distributed Microservice Abstraction Layer (also known as an API Gateway or API Middleware). Made available as an open-source project in 2015, its core functionality is written in Lua and it runs on the nginx web server.
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Access to Gravitee Github repository has been restricted - This is NOT how OSS works
OPeNsOuRcE. Good time to switch to Kong, better option anyways.
- Self hosting costing questions
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Proxy Basic Auth Replacement Best Practice for Cloud Native / OIDC / Vault
Sounds like you want an API gateway? What about Kong?
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HAProxy 2.7
Unquestionably no, Kong is "OpenResty plus a management plane" and they're Apache 2: https://github.com/kong/kong#license
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Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2022)
Kong (https://konghq.com) | Gateway Senior Engineer | REMOTE Europe | Full-time
The Kong Gateway is an API Management solution, which serves as a foundation for many other solutions by the company. The business model is open-core: an Open Source solution exists (https://github.com/kong/kong), and there's an Enterprise version with more features and dedicated support.
The tech stack is a modified Openresty with of Lua code on top. The ideal candidate would be someone who is already familiar with Kong. Alternatively, if you are familiar with Openresty or other API management solution, we also would love to talk with you.
I am personally interested in finding people to join me in the European Gateway Team. The role involves adding features, fixing bugs, and collaborating with other teams. Here's that position:
https://jobs.lever.co/kong/c1a2b204-45a8-4c19-9cd4-d9824a778...
We have many projects and many teams all around the world (current headcount is ~450), using other technologies like Node in the Kong Manager or Go in the Koko project, and we are constantly looking for people. Please visit our careers page to find out more!
https://konghq.com/careers/
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Breaking Up a Monolithic Database with Kong
Kong Gateway allows the complexity of service-tier APIs to be reduced to a collection of endpoints (or URIs) focused on meeting a collection of business needs and functionality. Often-duplicated components (like authentication, logging, and security) are handled by the gateway and can be removed from the service-tier design.
- 27 open-source tools that can make your Kubernetes workflow easier 🚀🥳
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Difference between Reverse Proxy, Load Balancer and API Gateway
I am seeing different companies taking different approach. I am not sure anymore where each should be actually used. On top of that tech like Kong make me question whether API Gateway should be one thing for all. Some perspective into this would be really appreciated.
Keycloak
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Securing Remix Apps with Keycloak
In this article we'll be using Keycloak to quickly augment an application with user management and SSO. We will demonstrate the integration by securing a page for logged-in users. This quickly provides a jump-off point to more complex integrations.
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Simplifying Keycloak Configuration with Terraform and Terragrunt
Keycloak, an open-source identity and access management solution, provides robust authentication and authorization services for modern applications. However, configuring Keycloak instances manually can be tedious and error-prone. In this blog post, we'll explore how to simplify Keycloak configuration using Terraform and Terragrunt, enabling infrastructure as code (IaC) practices for managing Keycloak realms, clients, users, and more.
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Securing Vue Apps with Keycloak
In this article we'll be using Keycloak to secure a Vue.js Web application. We're going to leverage oidc-client-ts to integrate OIDC authentication with the Vue app. The oidc-client-ts package is a well-maintained and used library. It provides a lot of utilities for building out a fully production app.
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User Management and Identity Brokering for On-Prem Apps with Keycloak
Keycloak has been a leader in the Identity and Access Management world since its launch almost 8 years ago. It is an open-source offering under the stewardship of Red Hat
- Navigating Identity Authentication: From LDAP to Modern Protocols
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Ask HN: No-code, simple-setup user management
It sounds like what you're looking for is an identity provider.
A popular open source option is https://www.keycloak.org/
This application can manage your users, then you can use standards like OpenID or SAML to plug it into your application, of which there are usually many plugins to accomplish this depending on your tech stack.
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Top 6 Open Source Identity and Access Management (IAM) Solutions For Enterprises
KeyCloak is a Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) project that offers enterprise IAM solutions. Keycloak emphasizes proficient enterprise authorization solutions by providing:
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Outline: Self hostable, realtime, Markdown compatible knowledge base
Outline only uses SSO for authentication. The solution when self hosting is use a private keycloak server [1]. This allows you to do email based auth.
[1] https://www.keycloak.org/
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Keycloak open redirect: wildcard redirect URIs can be exploited to steal tokens
> Keycloak was good but has too much legacy for 10+ years.
I got curious, actually seems to check out and explains why it's so well documented (but also complex and oftentimes confusing):
> The first production release of Keycloak was in September 2014, with development having started about a year earlier.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keycloak
https://github.com/keycloak/keycloak/releases/tag/1.0.0.Fina...
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What Is OIDC?
> Don't outsource either your authentication or authorization. Run it in-house.
This is hard to do, though. I hope people here will drop a lot of combinations that work for them!
Personally, for a small/medium scale project, I went with:
Keycloak: https://www.keycloak.org/
It supports various backing RDBMSes (like PostgreSQL, MariaDB/MySQL and others), allows both users that you persist in your own DB, as well as various external sources, like social login across various platforms, is an absolute pain to configure and sometimes acts in stupid ways behind a reverse proxy, but has most of the features that you might ever want, which sadly comes coupled with some complexity and an enterprise feeling.
I quite like that it offers the login/registration views that you need with redirects, as well as user management, storing roles/permissions and other custom attributes. It's on par with what you'd expect and should serve you nicely.
mod_auth_openidc: https://github.com/OpenIDC/mod_auth_openidc
This one's a certified OpenID Connect Relying Party implementation for... Apache2/httpd.
Some might worry about the performance and there are other options out there (like a module for OpenResty, which is built on top of Nginx), but when coupled with mod_md Apache makes for a great reverse proxy/ingress for my personal needs.
The benefit here is that I don't need 10 different implementations for each service/back end language that's used, I can outsource the heavy lifting to mod_auth_openidc (protected paths, needed roles/permissions, redirect URLs, token renewal and other things) and just read a few trusted headers behind the reverse proxy if further checks are needed, which is easy in all technologies.
That said, the configuration there is also hard and annoying to do, as is working with OpenID Connect in general, even though you can kind of understand why that complexity is inherent. Here's a link with some certified implementations, by the way: https://openid.net/developers/certified-openid-connect-imple...
What are some alternatives?
apisix - The Cloud-Native API Gateway
authelia - The Single Sign-On Multi-Factor portal for web apps
KrakenD - Ultra performant API Gateway with middlewares. A project hosted at The Linux Foundation
authentik - The authentication glue you need.
Hasura - Blazing fast, instant realtime GraphQL APIs on your DB with fine grained access control, also trigger webhooks on database events.
Apache Shiro - Apache Shiro
konga - More than just another GUI to Kong Admin API
OPA (Open Policy Agent) - Open Policy Agent (OPA) is an open source, general-purpose policy engine.
kubernetes-ingress-controller - :gorilla: Kong for Kubernetes: The official Ingress Controller for Kubernetes.
IdentityServer - The most flexible and standards-compliant OpenID Connect and OAuth 2.x framework for ASP.NET Core
Tyk - Tyk Open Source API Gateway written in Go, supporting REST, GraphQL, TCP and gRPC protocols
Spring Security - Spring Security