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Flask keycloak

Modular Flask application, authenticated via Keycloak
Updated 2 years ago

MIT License

~~ PLEAEE DON'T USE THIS. NOT BEING MAINTAINED ANYMORE, IN FAVOR OF THIS REPO: https://github.com/verdan/flaskoidc ~~

Flask Keycloak

Minimal Flask-Keycloak application, built using the modular approach.

Features:

  • Modular architecture
  • Authentication using keycloak
  • Separate production and development configurations and clients' secrets files

Getting Started

I'm assuming you have Python installed. It is preferable to have a virtual environment for the project libraries. Also assuming you've git setup on your system.

Setting Up the Keycloak Server

Refer to the following documentation to create the Keycloak client. OIDC Clients By default this template uses the following values:

  • Realm Name: flask-demo
  • Client Name: flask-client
  • Client Secret: '0a55e3fd-5c30-44ec-b623-26b69ff23f45' (this is auto-generated, please change it in config/client_secrets_[dev/prod].json accordingly)

Please make sure to update the configurations if you are not using the above mentioned values (and for production)

1: config/client_secrets_dev.json or/and config/client_secrets_prod.json

2: config/configurations.py

Setting Up the Virtual Environment

If you're using pip to install packages (and I can't see why you wouldn't), you can get both virtualenv and virtualenvwrapper by simply installing the latter.

        pip install virtualenvwrapper

After it's installed, add the following lines to your shell's start-up file (.zshrc, .bashrc, .profile, etc).

        export WORKON_HOME=$HOME/.virtualenvs
        export PROJECT_HOME=$HOME/directory-you-do-development-in
        source /usr/local/bin/virtualenvwrapper.sh

Reload your start up file (e.g. source .bashrc) and you're ready to go.

Creating a virtual environment is simple. Just type

        mkvirtualenv flask-keycloak

or If already created the Virtual Environment, just start the environment by typing

        workon flask-keycloak

Getting the App Running

Installing Python Packages and getting the app running is just like eating chocolate.

        cd /path/where/you/want/your/project
        git clone git@github.com:verdan/flask-keycloak.git
        cd flask-keycloak/

Packages can be installed using pip command. This command installs the packages in the requirement file.

        pip install -r requirements.txt

Start the Server

        flask run

API URLs

        http://localhost:5000/portal/api/docs
        http://localhost:5000/portal/api/spec