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Customizing Keycloak with Aspire - Part 3

October 04, 2024 6 minute read

This is the last article in a trio of articles about incorporating Keycloak into .NET Aspire applications. Thus far, I’ve covered the basics and some common customizations. This part covers what you need to do if you want to store the identity information within a PostgreSQL database. I’ve chosen PostgreSQL for this because it seems to be the database of choice for Aspire when you want to run things locally and in the cloud and also because the PostgreSQL database driver is included by def...

Customizing Keycloak with Aspire - Part 2

September 30, 2024 4 minute read

In my last article, I introduced the Keycloak identity service and showed how the development version can be easily integrated into a project. Development services get you started quickly and allow you to defer the details until later on. At some point, however, you need to take control of your service and start working towards production. There are a number of things that the development version of the Keycloak identity service doesn’t do that you need in production. These include SSL/TL...

Integrating Keycloak with Aspire - Part 1

September 26, 2024 8 minute read

In my series on ASP.NET Identity, I mentioned (several times) that you should be using Keycloak, Auth0, Corbado, or another identity service instead of rolling your own. That’s all good, but I left it up to you to figure out exactly how to do that. I thought it would be a good idea to configure an Aspire project from the beginning and show how authentication and authorization with a service works. This article will be more of a “make the code work” type of article, with follow-on articles ...

.NET Aspire configuration patterns

September 09, 2024 10 minute read

If you recall my last article, I transitioned my working application to .NET Aspire. This opinionated pattern allows me to run a complete microservice application within Docker Desktop, but then seamlessly deploy to Azure Container Apps and other platform services with the same code base. This is a great productivity boost for a developer. My current project builds an OIDC identity service that has both username/password (local) authentication and social logins like Google and Facebook. To ...

Local development for the cloud: Transitioning to .NET Aspire

September 05, 2024 13 minute read

I’ve been working on a new project recently. It requires that I work with microservices and containers as it will eventually be runnable on either Kubernetes or (more likely) Azure Container Apps. My latest task is to get ASP.NET Identity working with PostgreSQL. In order to properly debug the code, I need the ASP.NET bits to be running locally. But to integrate with PostgreSQL, I need to set up containers and docker compose. This all feels like “too much work”. Wouldn’t it be amazing if...