Installing Keycloak on Django Rest Framework

In this article we’ll cover lessons learned implementing a Keycloak authentication solution into Django Rest Framework (DRF) using the mozilla-django-oidc library. Note that this article assumes some familiarity with Django.

Requirements

These can be summarized as follows:

1. Replace the current authentication solution with a Keycloak-based solution so that users can be authenticated and enable single sign-on between applications using different authentication providers.
2. The solution should cover both Django (session authentication) and DRF (token authentication).
3. It should be able to handle a dedicated Keycloak client and expandable to allow roles-based authorisation.
4. OpenID connect preferred
5. Any libraries used should be currently supported and widely used