Create an identity provider in keycloak when adding a tenant to the consortia

Purpose: To enable the Central realm to recognize and authenticate users from non-Central (institutional) tenant realms.

• Action: When a tenant is added to the Consortium, an Identity Provider must be created in the Keycloak realm representing the Central tenant. This Identity Provider should point to the Keycloak realm that represents the non-Central tenant being added.

• Details:

  • The mod-consortia-keycloak module, responsible for management of the consortia, should automate the creation of Identity Providers in the Central realm whenever a new tenant is added to the Consortium.

  • This setup allows the Central realm to delegate authentication to the appropriate tenant realm based on the user's home institution.

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Scope:

• Creation of identity providers in keycloak when tenants are added to consortia

• Removal of identity providers when tenants are removed from consortia is out of scope and will be addressed in a separate story

• A feature flag (e.g. SINGLE_TENANT_UX=true|false) should enable/disable this functionality since it’s not always applicable. For consortium using either the explicit tenant selection login flow, or always log into the central tenant, we do not need this.

Acceptance Criteria

• When the new feature flag is set to true, identity providers in keycloak are created when tenants are added to consortia

• Identity providers should NOT be created when the feature flag is absent (unspecified), or set to false.

• This functionality works with the latest version of Keycloak adopted by Folio (26.x as of )

  • NOTE: It may make sense to use the most recent keycloak client v26.0.4 as of (See ) from the start here to avoid unnecessary technical debt.

• Tests are updated and coverage is 80%+

Refinement Notes/Considerations

• Despite the module name, mod-consortia-keycloak may not yet actually interact directly with Keycloak. Do we need a separate story for this?

• The spike write-up indicates that this work is in scope of mgr-tenants, but I think that’s a mistake. I don’t think the tenant manger is aware of consortia membership.

• Thunderjet may be able to take this work on.