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Khaoula,
Thanks for following up on this. We released NMS 8.2 with Dex removed and recommend that customers use Keycloak (when needed) to setup SSO. Keycloak has the ability to configure multiple redirect IPs and my development team believe that it should be possible for this configuration to support cluster leader failover, and possibly using a non-cluster-leader as the redirect IP. I've asked my engineers to open a QA Test ticket to validate and, if it works, to add public documentation updates. Please feel free to contact me directly if you don't hear back within a week - ryan.wilson4@ibm.com
Regards
Hello Ryan,
We recently upgraded our SevOne cluster to NMS 8.2.2 and I wanted to check whether there have been any updates regarding the Keycloak setup with alternate redirect IPs that you mentioned previously.
Our main concern is that SSO is currently not disaster-recovery compliant because authentication depends on the cluster leader. If the leader fails, manual reconfiguration is required before users can authenticate again.
SSO should continue to function seamlessly during a leader failover without requiring any manual changes on either the Identity Provider or the SevOne side. The authentication service should remain fully operational across the cluster, even after a failover.
As this remains the main blocker preventing us from adopting SSO, any update on the Keycloak investigation would be greatly appreciated.
Kind Regards,
Khaoula KARAM
Euroclear
Khaoula,
Currently SSO with SevOne is setup using an instance of Dex that runs on the cluster leader. In NMS 8.2 we are deleting Dex for security reasons and requiring customers to migrate to another solution, with IBM recommending Keycloak. We are currently testing whether Keycloak can be setup with alternate redirect IPs for the IdP to function if the cluster leader fails over or even goes down by redirecting the responsibility to authenticate via one of the other peers.
While we work on this I'd appreciate if you have any thoughts or feedback on this potential approach.
Regards,
Ryan Wilson, Senior Product Manager, SevOne NPM