In this article, I am going to explain how I have deployed a Nextjs app with docker, GitLab CICD pipeline, and AWS CDK. Generally, the steps are: create two repo. One is the Nextjs app repo. …

In one of my projects, I used AWS CDK to deploy a Nextjs app. In this article, I am going to share how it was done. First, you would need to create an AWS CDK project. What is AWS CDK? AWS CDK (not SDK) is an IaC tool and is…

install next-auth library create “pages/api/auth/[…nextauth]”.ts: import NextAuth from 'next-auth'; import KeycloakProvider from 'next-auth/providers/keycloak'; export const authOptions = { providers: [ KeycloakProvider({ clientId: process.env.KEYCLOAK_ID, clientSecret: process.env.KEYCLOAK_SECRET, issuer: process.env.KEYCLOAK_ISSUER, }), ], }; export default NextAuth(authOptions);

warning: I don’t consider the approach in this article is optimizal anymore. In this article, I used the admin-client in the master realm, but I think it is better to create a client in a specific realm and assign proper “service accounts roles” for it, such as the “manage-users” role: …

In the beginning, a hidden iframe on a seemingly good page could make a request to a 3rd party website with our authentication cookie.

OPTIONS is used for pre-flight request to see if a server accept certain method, headers or origins.

Hierarchical file system is UNIX’s invention.

failures in software is ok, just build fallbacks. In NASA’s rocket design, if a component does not work, there will be spare part to take over. If a whole module fails, there will be another module to take over.

“one of the best ways to make yourself more marketable as a software developer is to have an active online profile. be able to illustrate that over time, you’ve been actively involved in the areas in which you profess to have expertise” He used writing as notes to get back what he was doing if he were to do something again, such as “automating web hosting creation in Azure with PowerShell” Another idea is to be active on StackOverflow.