community.general.keycloak_authz_permission module – Allows administration of Keycloak client authorization permissions via Keycloak API

Note

This module is part of the community.general collection (version 9.5.1).

You might already have this collection installed if you are using the ansible package. It is not included in ansible-core. To check whether it is installed, run ansible-galaxy collection list.

To install it, use: ansible-galaxy collection install community.general.

To use it in a playbook, specify: community.general.keycloak_authz_permission.

New in community.general 7.2.0

Synopsis

• This module allows the administration of Keycloak client authorization permissions via the Keycloak REST API. Authorization permissions are only available if a client has Authorization enabled.

• There are some peculiarities in JSON paths and payloads for authorization permissions. In particular POST and PUT operations are targeted at permission endpoints, whereas GET requests go to policies endpoint. To make matters more interesting the JSON responses from GET requests return data in a different format than what is expected for POST and PUT. The end result is that it is not possible to detect changes to things like policies, scopes or resources - at least not without a large number of additional API calls. Therefore this module always updates authorization permissions instead of attempting to determine if changes are truly needed.

• This module requires access to the REST API via OpenID Connect; the user connecting and the realm being used must have the requisite access rights. In a default Keycloak installation, admin-cli and an admin user would work, as would a separate realm definition with the scope tailored to your needs and a user having the expected roles.

• The names of module options are snake_cased versions of the camelCase options used by Keycloak. The Authorization Services paths and payloads have not officially been documented by the Keycloak project. https://www.puppeteers.net/blog/keycloak-authorization-services-rest-api-paths-and-payload/

Parameters

Parameter	Comments
auth_client_id string	OpenID Connect client_id to authenticate to the API with. Default: "admin-cli"
auth_client_secret string	Client Secret to use in conjunction with auth_client_id (if required).
auth_keycloak_url aliases: url string / required	URL to the Keycloak instance.
auth_password aliases: password string	Password to authenticate for API access with.
auth_realm string	Keycloak realm name to authenticate to for API access.
auth_username aliases: username string	Username to authenticate for API access with.
client_id string / required	The clientId of the keycloak client that should have the authorization scope. This is usually a human-readable name of the Keycloak client.
connection_timeout integer added in community.general 4.5.0	Controls the HTTP connections timeout period (in seconds) to Keycloak API. Default: 10
decision_strategy string	The decision strategy to use with this permission. Choices: "UNANIMOUS" ← (default) "AFFIRMATIVE" "CONSENSUS"
description string	The description of the authorization permission.
http_agent string added in community.general 5.4.0	Configures the HTTP User-Agent header. Default: "Ansible"
name string / required	Name of the authorization permission to create.
permission_type string / required	The type of authorization permission. On scope create a scope-based permission. On resource create a resource-based permission. Choices: "resource" "scope"
policies list / elements=string	Policy names to attach to this permission. Default: []
realm string / required	The name of the Keycloak realm the Keycloak client is in.
resources list / elements=string	Resource names to attach to this permission. Scope-based permissions can only include one resource. Resource-based permissions can include multiple resources. Default: []
scopes list / elements=string	Scope names to attach to this permission. Resource-based permissions cannot have scopes attached to them. Default: []
state string	State of the authorization permission. On present, the authorization permission will be created (or updated if it exists already). On absent, the authorization permission will be removed if it exists. Choices: "present" ← (default) "absent"
token string added in community.general 3.0.0	Authentication token for Keycloak API.
validate_certs boolean	Verify TLS certificates (do not disable this in production). Choices: false true ← (default)

Attributes

Attribute	Support	Description
check_mode	Support: full	Can run in check_mode and return changed status prediction without modifying target.
diff_mode	Support: none	Will return details on what has changed (or possibly needs changing in check_mode), when in diff mode.

Examples

- name: Manage scope-based Keycloak authorization permission
  community.general.keycloak_authz_permission:
    name: ScopePermission
    state: present
    description: Scope permission
    permission_type: scope
    scopes:
      - file:delete
    policies:
      - Default Policy
    client_id: myclient
    realm: myrealm
    auth_keycloak_url: http://localhost:8080/auth
    auth_username: keycloak
    auth_password: keycloak
    auth_realm: master

- name: Manage resource-based Keycloak authorization permission
  community.general.keycloak_authz_permission:
    name: ResourcePermission
    state: present
    description: Resource permission
    permission_type: resource
    resources:
      - Default Resource
    policies:
      - Default Policy
    client_id: myclient
    realm: myrealm
    auth_keycloak_url: http://localhost:8080/auth
    auth_username: keycloak
    auth_password: keycloak
    auth_realm: master

Return Values

Common return values are documented here, the following are the fields unique to this module:

Key	Description
end_state complex	Representation of the authorization permission after module execution. Returned: on success
decisionStrategy string	The decision strategy to use. Returned: when state=present Sample: "UNANIMOUS"
description string	Description of the authorization permission. Returned: when state=present Sample: "Resource Permission"
id string	ID of the authorization permission. Returned: when state=present Sample: "9da05cd2-b273-4354-bbd8-0c133918a454"
logic string	The logic used for the permission (part of the payload, but has a fixed value). Returned: when state=present Sample: "POSITIVE"
name string	Name of the authorization permission. Returned: when state=present Sample: "ResourcePermission"
policies list / elements=string	IDs of policies attached to this permission. Returned: when state=present Sample: ["9da05cd2-b273-4354-bbd8-0c133918a454"]
resources list / elements=string	IDs of resources attached to this permission. Returned: when state=present Sample: ["49e052ff-100d-4b79-a9dd-52669ed3c11d"]
scopes list / elements=string	IDs of scopes attached to this permission. Returned: when state=present Sample: ["9da05cd2-b273-4354-bbd8-0c133918a454"]
type string	Type of the authorization permission. Returned: when state=present Sample: "resource"
msg string	Message as to what action was taken. Returned: always

Authors

• Samuli Seppänen (@mattock)

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