#What is the best way to authenticate NestJS with keycloak?

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olive onyx
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Passport does not have a default strategy for keycloak. Any pointers?

torpid breach
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Maybe a little late now but I found this package: https://www.npmjs.com/package/nest-keycloak-connect
Have not used it on my own yet but it seems to address what you asked for 🙂

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nest-keycloak-connect

keycloak-nodejs-connect module for Nest. Latest version: 1.9.0, last published: 4 months ago. Start using nest-keycloak-connect in your project by running npm i nest-keycloak-connect. There are 6 other projects in the npm registry using nest-keycloak-connect.

queen inlet
lime jolt
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Yeah, well....the nest-keycloak-connect package isn't for authentication, it's for leveraging Keycloak's authorization features. So, I doubt it will help for this inquiry. The keycloak-passport strategy is more likely what is needed. There are also a number of OIDC strategies, which should also work. But, it seems the passport-strategy looks more specialized for Keycloak i.e. it supports realms for multi-tenancy, whereas realms aren't a good multi-tenancy concept in Keycloak. So.... YMMV.