Spring Cloud Gateway

Spring Cloud Gateway with OpenID Connect and Token Relay

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Tim te Beek

When combined with Spring Security 5.2+ and an OpenID Provider such as Keycloak, one can rapidly setup and secure Spring Cloud Gateway for OAuth2 resource servers.

Spring Cloud Gateway aims to provide a simple, yet effective way to route to APIs and provide cross cutting concerns to them such as: security, monitoring/metrics, and resiliency.

We consider this combination a promising standards-based gateway solution, with desirable characteristics such as hiding tokens from the client, while keeping complexity to a minimum.

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