community.general.keycloak_realm_keys_metadata_info module – Allows obtaining Keycloak realm keys metadata using Keycloak API

Note

This module is part of the community.general collection (version 10.7.5).

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_realm_keys_metadata_info.

New in community.general 9.3.0

Synopsis

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.

connection_timeout

integer

added in community.general 4.5.0

Controls the HTTP connections timeout period (in seconds) to Keycloak API.

Default: 10

http_agent

string

added in community.general 5.4.0

Configures the HTTP User-Agent header.

Default: "Ansible"

realm

string

They Keycloak realm to fetch keys metadata.

Default: "master"

refresh_token

string

added in community.general 10.3.0

Authentication refresh token for Keycloak API.

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

action_group

Action group: community.general.keycloak

added in community.general 10.2.0

Use group/community.general.keycloak in module_defaults to set defaults for this module.

check_mode

Support: full

This action does not modify state.

Can run in check_mode and return changed status prediction without modifying target.

diff_mode

Support: N/A

This action does not modify state.

Will return details on what has changed (or possibly needs changing in check_mode), when in diff mode.

Examples

- name: Fetch Keys metadata
  community.general.keycloak_realm_keys_metadata_info:
    auth_keycloak_url: https://auth.example.com/auth
    auth_realm: master
    auth_username: USERNAME
    auth_password: PASSWORD
    realm: MyCustomRealm
  delegate_to: localhost
  register: keycloak_keys_metadata

- name: Write the Keycloak keys certificate into a file
  ansible.builtin.copy:
    dest: /tmp/keycloak.cert
    content: |
      {{ keys_metadata['keycloak_keys_metadata']['keys']
      | selectattr('algorithm', 'equalto', 'RS256')
      | map(attribute='certificate')
      | first
      }}
  delegate_to: localhost

Return Values

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

Key

Description

keys_metadata

dictionary

Representation of the realm keys metadata (see https://www.keycloak.org/docs-api/latest/rest-api/index.html#KeysMetadataRepresentation).

Returned: always

active

dictionary

A mapping (that is, a dict) from key algorithms to UUIDs.

Returned: always

keys

list / elements=dictionary

A list of dicts providing detailed information on the keys.

Returned: always

msg

string

Message as to what action was taken.

Returned: always

Authors

  • Thomas Bach (@thomasbach-dev)