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Spring Security OAuth resourceserver can only configure itself through the issuer-uri

I am using docker to deploy an application with:

  • an nginx container terminating SSL
  • a Keycloak container
  • a Spring Boot OAuth resource server.

I have the following configuration:

  security:
    oauth2:
      resourceserver:
        jwt:
          issuer-uri: https://example.com/realms/petclinic

This works fine, however if I want to deploy the application using a self-signed SSL certificate, then the Spring Boot container can no longer connect to Keycloak through https://. I cannot control what certificates people will use to use the application with.

I cannot change the issuer-uri to the http:// address as then the tokens will fail validation when used by the end-user, as the Keycloak host remains https://example.com/realms/petclinic.

I was wondering if there was an option to allow the Spring Boot OAuth resourceserver to always connect and configure itself with Keycloak over the local docker http://keycloak address?

It seems the issuer-uri and resourceserver auto-configuration are coupled together, which I don't think was the case for the Keycloak Java adapter.

Solution

  • Using issuer-uri also adds an issuer validator to the JWT decoder.

    You can use the jwk-set-uri instead (no issuer validation) or in addition to issuer-uri (when you want issuer validation but the OpenID config can't be fetched from the issuer URI)