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Setup Keycloak for development purposes

Keycloak docker-compose

Just paste the code below into a file and name it docker-compose.yml

services:
  keycloak:
    image: quay.io/keycloak/keycloak:26.0
    environment:
      KC_BOOTSTRAP_ADMIN_USERNAME: admin
      KC_BOOTSTRAP_ADMIN_PASSWORD: admin
    ports:
      - '8000:8080'
    command:
      - start-dev

Run the command docker compose up -d and open the URL http://localhost:8000 in your browser. Log in to Keycloak with the username and password - in the file, both are admin.

Keycloak internal setup

  1. Create the realm
dropdown menu to create the realm

Fill in the name and click create.

  1. Create the client

Click clients in the sidebar and click Create client. Fill in the Client ID, which is very important and commonly used in OAuth libraries.

create client settings

I would leave these settings as they are, because the most popular and widely used flow is the code flow, which is enabled by the standard flow checkbox.

Next, you should determine your URIs. For Angular, it can look like this:

create client - login settings
  1. Create the user There's nothing complicated here, just fill in the inputs. 4) Create a password for the user In the Credentials tab, you can set the password for your user.

That's it! You're good to go with development :)