Identity is an essential part of modern application architecture. More and more organizations are reconsidering their dependence on cloud-based identity solutions.

In this session, you will be introduced to Keycloak, an open-source platform for identity and access management.

You will discover how to integrate Keycloak into .NET applications and build a powerful, flexible solution that allows you to maintain control over your own identity infrastructure.

We will go beyond simply signing in and validating tokens. You will see how Keycloak can be customized so that authentication integrates seamlessly with your application’s user experience, rather than feeling like a separate system.

We will also explore modern authentication methods, such as passkeys, and how they can improve both security and ease of use. Using .NET Aspire, we will set up a local development environment, making it easy to work with Keycloak in a consistent and reproducible way.

Through practical demos, we will show you how to connect all the components, customize the authentication flow to suit your needs, and apply these techniques in your own .NET solutions.

Target audience: Anyone interested in .NET, modern authentication, and identity and access management.

Prerequisites: None