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layout: post title: “Testing CloudStack Integration with KeyCloak” date: 2025-10-29 categories: [cloudstack, keycloak, integration, testing] Testing CloudStack Integration with KeyCloak Steps to Test Keycloak with CloudStack Set up Docker environment On a Linux host, ensure Docker is installed and that there’s connectivity to the CloudStack Management server. Example setup: Linux host IP: 10.0.32.236 CloudStack Management server IP: 10.0.34.45 Run the Keycloak container docker pull quay.io/keycloak/keycloak:23.0.6 docker run -d -p 8080:8080 \ -e KEYCLOAK_ADMIN=admin \ -e KEYCLOAK_ADMIN_PASSWORD=password \ -e KC_PROXY=edge \ --restart always \ -v /keycloak:/opt/jboss/keycloak/standalone/data \ --network=host \ quay.io/keycloak/keycloak:23.0.6 start-dev Access the Keycloak UI ...

Navigate to Azure portal > Services > Azure Entra ID Click on Enterprise Applications > Create a New Application Click on Create your own Application and provide a name. Select Integrate any other application you don’t find in the gallery (Non-gallery) > Create Once in the Application, click on Set up Single Sign-on and choose SAML Make sure SSL is enabled on the Cloudstack management server. Login to Cloudstack UI > Global settings > Access > Saml and set the following: saml2.enabled=true saml2.redirect.url=http://<mgmtip>:8080/client saml2.sp.slo.url=http://<mgmtip>:8080/client saml2.sp.sso.url=http://<mgmtip>:8080/client/api?command=samlSso Restart the Cloudstack Management service and execute the API to get the SP Metadata for Cloudstack https://cloudstack.apache.org/api/apidocs-4.19/apis/getSPMetadata.html > curl > [http://\<mgmt\>:8080/client/api?command=getSpMetadata](http://10.0.32.234:8080/client/api?command=getSpMetadata) \> > metadata.xml Upload the generated metadata XML into Azure Entra ...

Building cloudstack on Ubuntu 22.0.4 Apache CloudStack is open source software designed to deploy and manage large networks of virtual machines, as a highly available, highly scalable Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud computing platform. CloudStack is used by a number of service providers to offer public cloud services, and by many companies to provide an on-premises (private) cloud offering, or as part of a hybrid cloud solution. https://cloudstack.apache.org/ http://docs.cloudstack.apache.org/en/latest/ Install the following packages sudo add-apt-repository universe sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get dist-upgrade sudo apt-get install cpu-checker build-essential zlib1g-dev libffi-dev libssl-dev libbz2-dev libreadline-dev libsqlite3-dev liblzma-dev vim git subversion mercurial patch rsync curl wget sed openssh-client gpg gnupg2 gzip bzip2 zip unzip p7zip-full p7zip-rar python-is-python3 openjdk-11-jdk maven mysql-server mysql-client bzip2 nfs-common uuid uuid-runtime python-setuptools python3-setuptools ipmitool genisoimage nfs-kernel-server quota python3-dev python3-openssl jq Install git apt install git Install Python and pyenv ( in order to manage multiple python versions) brew install python brew install pyenv Pouplate the .zshrc to ...

Building cloudstack on Mac os Apache CloudStack is open source software designed to deploy and manage large networks of virtual machines, as a highly available, highly scalable Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud computing platform. CloudStack is used by a number of service providers to offer public cloud services, and by many companies to provide an on-premises (private) cloud offering, or as part of a hybrid cloud solution. https://cloudstack.apache.org/ http://docs.cloudstack.apache.org/en/latest/ Install Brew ( package manager) /bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)" Install git brew install git Install Python and pyenv ( in order to manage multiple python versions) brew install python brew install pyenv Pouplate the .zshrc to ...

Using Elastic search is a great tool to analysze logs generated by your application Elastic search is made up of 3 parts Elastic search –> the core search engine Logstah –> to parse the logs Kibana –> visualization Here i have imported the cloudstack management server logs to the ELK and I can perform various analytics Follow the below link to set up your elk infrstructure https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-elasticsearch-logstash-and-kibana-elastic-stack-on-ubuntu-18-04 Once done make sure your elastic, logstash, and kibana process are able to communicate with each other ...

Terraform is a tool to deploy resources on cloud It is an infrastructure as code tool Generally the plugins are available at https://registry.terraform.io/ To use the plugins which are archived and not available in the terraform registry Follow the steps a small tweak is necessary Currently the cloudstack plugin is archived https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform-provider-cloudstack https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform-provider-cloudstack/blob/stable-website/website/docs/index.html.markdown Download the terrform provider for cloudstack based on the os you are running https://releases.hashicorp.com/terraform-provider-cloudstack/0.3.0/ On linux and mac Move it ...