{{book.project.name}} can broker identity providers based on the OpenID Connect protocol. These IDPs must support the <<fake/../../sso-protocols/oidc.adoc#_oidc, Authorization Code Flow>>
The initial configuration options on this page are described in <<fake/../../identity-broker/configuration.adoc#_general-idp-config, General IDP Configuration>>.
You must define the OpenID Connection configuration options as well. They basically describe the OIDC IDP you are communicating with.
|Backchannel logout is a background, out-of-band, REST invocation to the IDP to logout the user. Some IDPs can only perform logout through browser redirects as they may
only be able to identity sessions via a browser cookie.
|This realm will act as an OIDC client to the external federation IDP you are configuring here. Your realm will need a OIDC client ID when using the Authorization Code Flow
|Responses from the IDP may contain an issuer claim. This config value is optional. If specified, this claim will be validated against the value you provide.
|Another optional switch. This is the prompt parameter defined by the OIDC specification. Through it you can force re-authentication and other options. See the specification for
|Another optional switch. This is to specify if {{book.project.name}} will verify the signatures on the external ID Token signed by this Identity provider. If this is on,
the {{book.project.name}} will need to know the public key of the external OIDC identity provider. See below for how to setup it.
|Use JWKS URL
|Applicable just `Validate Signatures` is on. If the switch is on, then identity provider public keys will be downloaded from given JWKS URL.
This allows great flexibility because new keys will be always re-downloaded again when identity provider generates new keypair. If the switch is off,
then public key (or certificate) from the {{book.project.name}} DB is used, so when identity provider keypair changes, you always need to import new key to the {{book.project.name}} DB as well.
|JWKS URL
|URL where identity provider keys in JWK format are stored. See https://self-issued.info/docs/draft-ietf-jose-json-web-key.html[JWK specification] for more details.
If you use external {{book.project.name}} identity provider, then you can use URL like http://broker-keycloak:8180/auth/realms/test/protocol/openid-connect/certs assuming your brokered
{{book.project.name}} is running on http://broker-keycloak:8180 and it's realm is `test` .
|Validating Public Key
|Applicable if `Use JWKS URL` is off. Here is the public key in PEM format that must be used to verify external IDP signatures.
You can also import all this configuration data by providing a URL or file that points to OpenID Provider Metadata (see OIDC Discovery specification).
If you are connecting to a {{book.project.name}} external IDP, you can import the IDP setttings from the url `<root>/auth/realms/\{realm-name}/.well-known/openid-configuration`.
This link is a JSON document describing metadata about the IDP.