Use Keycloak Spring Adapter with Spring Boot 3

November 25, 2022

I updated to Spring Boot 3 in a project that uses the Keycloak Spring Adapter. Unfortunately it doesn’t start because the KeycloakWebSecurityConfigurerAdapter extends WebSecurityConfigurerAdapter which was first deprecated in Spring Security and then removed. Is there currently another way to implement security with Keycloak? Or to put it in other words: How can I use Spring Boot 3 in combination with the keycloak adapter?

I searched the internet but couldn’t find any other version of the adapter.

>Solution :

Use the standard Spring Security OAuth2 client instead of a specific Keycloak adapter and SecurityFilterChain instead of WebSecurityAdapter.

Something like this:

@Configuration
@EnableWebSecurity
@EnableGlobalMethodSecurity(jsr250Enabled = true, prePostEnabled = true)
class OAuth2SecurityConfig {

@Bean
fun customOauth2FilterChain(http: HttpSecurity): SecurityFilterChain {
    log.info("Configure HttpSecurity with OAuth2")

    http {
        oauth2ResourceServer {
            jwt { jwtAuthenticationConverter = CustomBearerJwtAuthenticationConverter() }
        }
        oauth2Login {}

        csrf { disable() }

        authorizeRequests {
            // Kubernetes
            authorize("/readiness", permitAll)
            authorize("/liveness", permitAll)
            authorize("/actuator/health/**", permitAll)
            // ...
            // everything else needs at least a valid login, roles are checked at method level
            authorize(anyRequest, authenticated)
        }
    }

    return http.build()
}

And then in application.yml:

spring:
  security:
    oauth2:
      client:
        provider:
          abc:
            issuer-uri: https://keycloak.../auth/realms/foo
        registration:
          abc:
            client-secret: ...
            provider: abc
            client-id: foo
            scope: [ openid, profile, email ]
      resourceserver:
        jwt:
          issuer-uri: https://keycloak.../auth/realms/foo