Installing and Deploying AM

Course Overview

Enhancing Intelligent Access
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Improving Access Management Security
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Extending Services Using OAuth2-Based Protocols
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Federating Across Entities Using SAML2
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Installing and Deploying AM
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- Student Guide
- Workbook
- Virtual Exercise Environment
- Installing and Upgrading AM
- Plan deployment configurations
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- Prepare before installing AM
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- Deploy AM
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- Outline tasks and methods to install AM
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- Install AM with the web wizard
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- Demo: Install an AM instance with the web wizard
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- Lab: Install an AM instance with the web wizard
- Install AM and manage configuration with Amster
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- Demo: Install Amster and export the AM configuration
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- Install Amster
- Describe the AM bootstrap process
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- Upgrade an AM instance
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- Demo: Upgrade an AM instance with the web wizard
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- Lab: Upgrade AM with the web wizard
- Lab: Upgrade AM with the configuration tool
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- Hardening AM Security
- Harden AM security
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- Adjust default settings
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- Demo: Delegate Realm Admin privileges to an administrative group for a realm
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- Lab: Harden AM security
- Describe secrets, certificates, and keys
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- Describe keystores and secret stores
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- Manage the AM keystore, aliases, and passwords
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- Configure and manage secret stores
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- Demo: Create an HSM secret store with a secret ID.
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- Lab: Configure an HSM secret store to sign OIDC ID tokens
- Describe the monitoring tools
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- Describe the audit logging
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- Describe debug logging
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- Capture troubleshooting information
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- Demo: Capture troubleshooting information
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- Lab: Capture troubleshooting information
- Clustering AM
- Explore high availability solutions
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- Scale AM deployments
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- Describe AM cluster concepts
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- Create an AM cluster
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- Demo: Install a second AM server in a cluster
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- Demo: Test AM cluster failover scenarios
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- Lab: Prepare the initial AM cluster
- Lab: Install another AM server in the cluster
- Lab: Test AM cluster failover scenarios
- Lab: Modify the cluster to use client-side sessions
- Deploying the Identity Platform to the Cloud
- Describe the Identity Platform
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- Prepare your deployment environment
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- Deploy and access the Identity Platform
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- Lab: Access and authenticate your GCP account
- Lab: Prepare to deploy the Identity Platform
- Lab: Deploy the Identity Platform with the CDK
- Lab: Remove the Identity Platform deployment
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Installing and Upgrading AM

Plan deployment configurations

Consider the topics and resources describing the process of planning a deployment architecture for ...

storage topology architecture configuration plan phases

Prepare before installing AM

Consider what to prepare for the hardware and software infrastructure and deployment environment.

requirements infrastructure OS am releases security advisories

Deploy AM

Deploy AM into a Java application container.

am deploy Tomcat container amster

Outline tasks and methods to install AM

Prepare the AM truststore, external DS stores, and choose the method used to install the first AM ...

tools truststore external stores installation method

Install AM with the web wizard

Install AM using the web wizard.

settings install config store user store common deployment problems

Demo: Install an AM instance with the web wizard

Demonstrate how to access the AM URL to start the installation process after AM has been deployed, ...

cts deploy DS stores am truststore web wizard

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Lab: Install an AM instance with the web wizard

Use the web wizard to install a single instance of AM with an external ForgeRock® Directory Services ...

cts lab exercise deploy am truststore web wizard (1 more)

Install AM and manage configuration with Amster

Install AM using Amster.

rest apis amster AM configuration

Demo: Install Amster and export the AM configuration

Demonstrate how to install an AM instance using Amster, and how to export the AM instance ...

amster AM configuration Rest APIs

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Install Amster

Install the Amster command-line tool and connect to the AM server to manage the AM configuration.

lab exercise amster Rest APIs AM configuration

Describe the AM bootstrap process

Describe the configuration folders, files, and processes that AM uses to start an AM instance.

config bootstrap folder structure

Upgrade an AM instance

Upgrade an AM instance using the web wizard or the configuration tool.

backup am customization configuration best practises (2 more)

Demo: Upgrade an AM instance with the web wizard

Demonstrate how to upgrade an AM instance with the web wizard.

backup am customization configuration best practises (2 more)

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Lab: Upgrade AM with the web wizard

Back up and upgrade an AM instance using the web wizard.

backup am lab exercise customization configuration (3 more)

Lab: Upgrade AM with the configuration tool

Optionally, stop AM 7.3, restore the original AM 7.0.1 configuration, and upgrade using the ...

upgrade install restore am configuration tools

Hardening AM Security

Harden AM security

Describe security considerations and provide an overview of securing communication, network access, ...

https cookies cdsso security ldaps (1 more)

Adjust default settings

Highlight unused authentication contexts that should be removed, ensure inner trees cannot be used ...

validation secure settings delegate privileges

Demo: Delegate Realm Admin privileges to an administrative group for a realm

Demonstrate how to create an administrative group for a realm, assign a member to the group, and ...

security privileges realm admin

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Lab: Harden AM security

Make a few simple configuration changes to harden AM security, such as removing or disabling unused ...

cookie delegate lab exercise subrealm trees (1 more)

Describe secrets, certificates, and keys

Describe the relationship between secrets, certificates, and keys.

certificates store secrets secret id keys

Describe keystores and secret stores

Describe the global default keystore and password secret stores configured in AM, and understand how ...

keystore secret stores

Manage the AM keystore, aliases, and passwords

Manage the AM keystore files, key aliases, and passwords.

password alias keystore

Configure and manage secret stores

Configure and manage secret stores in AM.

secret stores

Demo: Create an HSM secret store with a secret ID.

Demonstrate how to create an HSM secret store and add a mapping for one secret ID.

secret security hsm

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Lab: Configure an HSM secret store to sign OIDC ID tokens

Configure AM to expose public keys, create an HSM secret store, and create a new key in the HSM ...

oidc lab exercise id token hsm public keys

Describe the monitoring tools

Describe the interfaces available to monitor AM.

REST API prometheus monitoring jmx HTTP (3 more)

Describe the audit logging

Explain what events can be audited and how they are organized.

logging handlers audit

Describe debug logging

logging debug

Capture troubleshooting information

Describe the debug recording tool which captures debug logs in a controlled way.

troubleshooting debug logs

Demo: Capture troubleshooting information

Demonstrate how to capture troubleshooting information with the REST recording endpoint.

rest debug logs

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Lab: Capture troubleshooting information

Record troubleshooting information and observe the error in the resulting logs.

lab exercise rest debug logs

Clustering AM

Explore high availability solutions

Explore the solutions AM provides for high availability.

topology architecture availability requirements

Scale AM deployments

Explore the solutions AM provides for scalability.

cts load scalability scale

Describe AM cluster concepts

Describe the list of key tasks to install an AM cluster.

cts autonomous configuration Clusters site (2 more)

Create an AM cluster

Describe the list of key tasks to install an AM cluster.

cluster cts am truststore load balancer (1 more)

Demo: Install a second AM server in a cluster

Demonstrate how to install a second AM server in a cluster.

cluster cts am deploy ds (2 more)

Demo: Test AM cluster failover scenarios

Demonstrate how an AM cluster ensures high availability of the service.

ds load balancer high availability

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Lab: Prepare the initial AM cluster

Prepare the initial AM cluster using the first AM you installed, view the load balancer ...

cluster lab exercise ds load balancer

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Lab: Install another AM server in the cluster

Deploy and install a new AM server into the AM cluster that contains the first AM server with an ...

cluster cts am lab exercise deploy (3 more)

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Lab: Test AM cluster failover scenarios

Emulate cluster components being unavailable by shutting down different servers, and examine the AM ...

cluster lab exercise ds high availability

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Lab: Modify the cluster to use client-side sessions

Configure the cluster to use client-side sessions to observe the difference between server-side and ...

lab exercise server-side client-side high availability

Deploying the Identity Platform to the Cloud

Describe the Identity Platform

Describe the Identity Platform and the forgeops repository.

configurations scalability identity platform docker forgeops (3 more)

Prepare your deployment environment

Prepare your development environment with the DevOps tools to use the cloud provider SDK and connect ...

cluster sdk forgeops kubernetes docker

Deploy and access the Identity Platform

Deploy the Identity Platform and supporting services to a Kubernetes cluster, and access the ...

cluster forgeops kubernetes ingress

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Lab: Access and authenticate your GCP account

Access your GCP account and select the cloudsharelabs.com organization's project to connect to the ...

cluster gcp sdk lab exercise

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Lab: Prepare to deploy the Identity Platform

Prepare the Google Cloud SDK and command-line tool environment configuration to connect with the GKE ...

cluster gcp lab exercise identity platform gke

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Lab: Deploy the Identity Platform with the CDK

Clone the forgeops repository, use the CDK tools to deploy the Identity Platform to your GKE ...

lab exercise identity platform ingress controller forgeops ds (1 more)

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Lab: Remove the Identity Platform deployment

Use the cdk command to remove a CDK deployment, and use forgeops scripts to remove supporting ...

lab exercise ingress controller cdk forgeops

Knowledge Check

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Knowledge Check - Installing and Deploying AM

Test your knowledge of this chapter in a series of short quizzes to enhance your learning!

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