Each adapter supported by Keycloak can be configured by a simple JSON text file. This is what one might look like: Some of these configuration switches may be adapter specific and some are common across all adapters. For Java adapters you can use ${...} enclosure as System property replacement. For example ${jboss.server.config.dir}. Also, you can obtain a template for this config file from the admin console. Go to the realm and application you want a template for. Go to the Installation tab and this will provide you with a template that includes the public key of the realm. Here is a description of each item: realm Name of the realm representing the users of your distributed applications and services. This is REQUIRED. resource Username of the application. Each application has a username that is used when the application connects with the Keycloak server to turn an access code into an access token (part of the OAuth 2.0 protocol). This is REQUIRED. realm-public-key PEM format of public key. You can obtain this from the administration console. This is REQUIRED. auth-server-url The base URL of the Keycloak Server. All other Keycloak pages and REST services are derived from this. It is usually of the form https://host:port/auth This is REQUIRED. ssl-required Ensures that all communication to and from the Keycloak server from the adapter is over HTTPS. This is OPTIONAL. The default value is external meaning that HTTPS is required by default for external requests. Valid values are 'all', 'external' and 'none'. use-resource-role-mappings If set to true, the adapter will look inside the token for application level role mappings for the user. If false, it will look at the realm level for user role mappings. This is OPTIONAL. The default value is false. enable-cors This enables CORS support. It will handle CORS preflight requests. It will also look into the access token to determine valid origins. This is OPTIONAL. The default value is false. cors-max-age If CORS is enabled, this sets the value of the Access-Control-Max-Age header. This is OPTIONAL. If not set, this header is not returned in CORS responses. cors-allowed-methods If CORS is enabled, this sets the value of the Access-Control-Allow-Methods header. This should be a JSON list of strings. This is OPTIONAL. If not set, this header is not returned in CORS responses. bearer-only This tells the adapter to only do bearer token authentication. That is, it will not do OAuth 2.0 redirects, but only accept bearer tokens through the Authorization header. This is OPTIONAL. The default value is false. enable-basic-auth This tells the adapter to also support basic authentication. If this option is enabled, then secret must also be provided. This is OPTIONAL. The default value is false. expose-token If true, an authenticated browser client (via a Javascript HTTP invocation) can obtain the signed access token via the URL root/k_query_bearer_token. This is OPTIONAL. The default value is false. credentials Specify the credentials of the application. This is an object notation where the key is the credential type and the value if the value of the credential type. Currently only password is supported. This is REQUIRED. connection-pool-size Adapters will make separate HTTP invocations to the Keycloak Server to turn an access code into an access token. This config option defines how many connections to the Keycloak Server should be pooled. This is OPTIONAL. The default value is 20. disable-trust-manager If the Keycloak Server requires HTTPS and this config option is set to true you do not have to specify a truststore. While convenient, this setting is not recommended as you will not be verifying the host name of the Keycloak Server. This is OPTIONAL. The default value is false. allow-any-hostname If the Keycloak Server requires HTTPS and this config option is set to true the Keycloak Server's certificate is validated via the truststore, but host name validation is not done. This is not a recommended. This seting may be useful in test environments This is OPTIONAL. The default value is false. truststore This setting is for Java adapters. The value is the file path to a Java keystore file. If you prefix the path with classpath:, then the truststore will be obtained from the deployment's classpath instead. Used for outgoing HTTPS communications to the Keycloak server. Client making HTTPS requests need a way to verify the host of the server they are talking to. This is what the trustore does. The keystore contains one or more trusted host certificates or certificate authorities. You can create this truststore by extracting the public certificate of the Keycloak server's SSL keystore. This is OPTIONAL if ssl-required is none or disable-trust-manager is true. truststore-password Password for the truststore keystore. This is REQUIRED if truststore is set. client-keystore Not supported yet, but we will support in future versions. This setting is for Java adapters. This is the file path to a Java keystore file. This keystore contains client certificate for two-way SSL when the adapter makes HTTPS requests to the Keycloak server. This is OPTIONAL. client-keystore-password Not supported yet, but we will support in future versions. Password for the client keystore. This is REQUIRED if client-keystore is set. client-key-password Not supported yet, but we will support in future versions. Password for the client's key. This is REQUIRED if client-keystore is set. auth-server-url-for-backend-requests Alternative location of auth-server-url used just for backend requests. It must be absolute URI. Useful especially in cluster (see Relative URI Optimization) or if you would like to use https for browser requests but stick with http for backend requests etc. always-refresh-token If true, Keycloak will refresh token in every request. More info in Refresh token in each request . register-node-at-startup If true, then adapter will send registration request to Keycloak. It's false by default as useful just in cluster (See Registration of application nodes to Keycloak) register-node-period Period for re-registration adapter to Keycloak. Useful in cluster. See Registration of application nodes to Keycloak for details. token-store Possible values are session and cookie. Default is session, which means that adapter stores account info in HTTP Session. Alternative cookie means storage of info in cookie. See Stateless token store for details. principal-attribute OpenID Connection ID Token attribute to populate the UserPrincipal name with. If token attribute is null, defaults to sub Possible values are sub, preferred_username, email, name, nickname, given_name, family_name.