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Apr 23, 2019

Keycloak as idp for APM

Dear devcentral,   Has anyone successfully integrated keycloak as an OIDC backend for APM on F5? We are running v13.1 so this version should be able to use this feature, right?   So far I have ...
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I go a little further on this but not yet working in F5.

For the moment using curl to target keycloak from CLI, I was ablle to have a correct reply from the keycloak for introspec/ user info:

 

curl --location --request POST 'https://keycloak.xxxxx.lu:8443/auth/realms/master/protocol/openid-connect/token/introspect' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded' \
--header 'Authorization: Bearer eyJhbGciOiJSUzI1NiIsInR5cCIgOiAiSldUIiwia2lkIiA6ICJ5bzhwdzhZcHJ1UG96QzVuX0cyVHZ' \
--data-urlencode 'client_id=F5-APM-Client' \
--data-urlencode 'client_secret=db51def3-xxxx-xxx-xxx-xxx' \
--data-urlencode 'token_type_hint=access_token' \
--data-urlencode 'token=eyJhbGciOiJSUzI1NiIsInR5cCIgOiAiSldUIiwia2lkIiA6ICJ5bzhwdzhZcHJ1UG96QzVuX0cyVHZ'

 

but When I try to create a custom f5 keycloak scope request, I always have the same issue :  error: HTTP error 401, Error: invalid_request: Authentication failed.

 

So I dont understand why ? i try to made tcpdump to see what exactly F5 send to keycloak but, not helped for the moment.

I see client credentials error in keycloak logs :

But double checked the parameters > same used in curl ...

 

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Mar 06, 2020

​@sebastien doucet​ your setup is indeed a bit different then mine but error seems related.

We are using ou F5 APM as a full OIDC client, redirecting the user to IDP logon page, requesting token etc..

Regarding the custom scope validation request, mine is more or less the same. Not so many params though, bare minimum only:

What really helped me is to place an iRule between the F5 and keycloak to capture the SSL keys so you can decode the HTTPS traffic in the TCP dump. From there you can decode the tokens etc using jwt.io and validate whats is in there.

 

#START
when CLIENTSSL_HANDSHAKE {
   log local0. "TCP source port client_side: [TCP::remote_port]"
   log local0. "RSA Session-ID:[SSL::sessionid] Master-Key:[SSL::sessionsecret]"
   log local0. "CLIENT_RANDOM [SSL::clientrandom] [SSL::sessionsecret]"
}
when SERVERSSL_HANDSHAKE {
   log local0. "TCP source port serv_side: [TCP::local_port]"
   log local0. "RSA Session-ID:[SSL::sessionid] Master-Key:[SSL::sessionsecret]"
   log local0. "CLIENT_RANDOM [SSL::clientrandom] [SSL::sessionsecret]"
}
#END

 

reference: https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K16700

Also: Is your keycloak server behind an F5 virtual server? If so, make sure you did config keycloak to understand it is running behind a loadbalancer. cfr: https://www.keycloak.org/docs/latest/server_installation/index.html#_setting-up-a-load-balancer-or-proxy

 

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    Mar 11, 2020

    Thanks JorenC. I was finally able to made this working.

    Capturing the RSA was not working due to RSA-DHE but I find another way using request logger in keycloak server : https://mirocupak.com/logging-requests-with-undertow/

    And it seems that the f5 introspect request is not working as excepted in v15.1 because using the Keycloak scope request posted above the result was :

     

    2020-03-09 13:06:30,504 INFO  [io.undertow.request.dump] (default task-15)
----------------------------REQUEST---------------------------
               URI=/auth/realms/master/protocol/openid-connect/token/introspect
 characterEncoding=null
     contentLength=1666
       contentType=[application/x-www-form-urlencoded]
            header=Proxy-Connection=Keep-Alive
            header=Accept=*/*
            header=User-Agent=F5 OAuth Client
            header=Authorization=Bearer eyJhbGciOiJSUzI1NiIsInR5cCIgOiAiSldUIiwia2lkIiA6ICJ5bzhwdzhZcHJ1UG96QzVuX0cyVHZVSVbOzSDkNlPyDi5A
            header=oauth_dns_resolver_name=/Common/172.xx.xx.xx
            header=oauth_serverssl_name=/Common/keycloak-publicssl
            header=Expect=100-continue
            header=Content-Type=application/x-www-form-urlencoded
            header=Content-Length=1666
            header=Host=keycloak.xxxxx.lu:8443
            locale=[]
            method=POST
          protocol=HTTP/1.1
       queryString=
        remoteAddr=/172.xx.xx.xx:17741
        remoteHost=172.xx.xx.xx
            scheme=https
              host=keycloak.xxxxx.lu:8443
        serverPort=8443
          isSecure=true
body=
%{session.oauth.client.last.access_token}=eyJhbGciOiJSUzI1NiIsInR5cCIgOiAiSldUIiwia2lkIiA6ICJ5bzhwdzhZcHJ1UG96QzVuX0cyVHZVSVbOzSDkNlPyDi5A
token_type_hint=access_token
--------------------------RESPONSE--------------------------
     contentLength=72
       contentType=application/json
            header=Connection=keep-alive
            header=Content-Type=application/json
            header=Content-Length=72
            header=Date=Mon, 09 Mar 2020 12:06:30 GMT
            status=401

     

    And we see now that the F5 :

    • send %{session.oauth.client.last.access_token} in place of token
    • miss to send the client-id and client-secret parameters in the body
    • send to much useless info to the keycloak like dns resolvers IP, backend server IP, ssl profile....

    So I rebuild the request using only custom fields even for those by default like token, client-id...:

    and then now it works ! 🙂

    I do the same for userinfo request also.

     

    ----------------------------REQUEST---------------------------
               URI=/auth/realms/master/protocol/openid-connect/token/introspect
 characterEncoding=null
     contentLength=1699
       contentType=[application/x-www-form-urlencoded]
            header=Proxy-Connection=Keep-Alive
            header=Accept=*/*
            header=User-Agent=F5 OAuth Client
            header=Authorization=Bearer hVhS2-trG8FsmeRyThTJ7zMGspLxZFGxV9kYjo
            header=oauth_dns_resolver_name=/Common/172.xxx.xx.xx
            header=oauth_serverssl_name=/Common/keycloak-publicssl
            header=Expect=100-continue
            header=Content-Length=1699
            header=Content-Type=application/x-www-form-urlencoded
            header=Host=keycloak.xxxxx.lu:8443
            locale=[]
            method=POST
          protocol=HTTP/1.1
       queryString=
        remoteAddr=/172.xx.xx.xx:47015
        remoteHost=172.xx.xx.xx
            scheme=https
              host=keycloak.xxxxx.lu:8443
        serverPort=8443
          isSecure=true
body=
client_id=F5-APM-Client
client_secret=db51def3-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxx
token=hVhS2-trG8FsmeRyThTJ7zMGspLxZFGxV9kYjo
token_type_hint=access_token
--------------------------RESPONSE--------------------------
     contentLength=913
       contentType=application/json
            header=Connection=keep-alive
            header=Content-Type=application/json
            header=Content-Length=913
            header=Date=Mon, 09 Mar 2020 13:33:59 GMT
            status=200
 
==============================================================

     

    Using the F5 as a Client and Ressource server for keycloak IDP is also working using f5 request without modification:

    So I can confirm that another workaround for the issuer port problem you encounter is to publish your keycloak to a non standard port.

    Thanks for your help, I will do a complete configuration guide when I have time available.