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Problem

Following the AuthBridge demos (starting with weather-agent/demo-ui.md), the "Inside the pod, get credentials and send a request" step fails — ADMIN_TOKEN and the agent TOKEN both come back null.

The admin-token step does a password grant against the rossoctl realm with admin/admin:

ADMIN_TOKEN=$(curl -s .../realms/rossoctl/protocol/openid-connect/token \
  -d grant_type=password -d client_id=admin-cli -d username=admin -d password=admin | jq -r .access_token)

But admin/admin is the master realm credential. The rossoctl realm admin user has a randomly generated password (per show-services.sh). The grant returns 401 invalid_grant, jq yields the literal null, and everything downstream cascades to null.

Fix

Fetch the admin token from the master realm. admin/admin is stable and documented, and the master admin has cross-realm rights, so /admin/realms/rossoctl/clients still resolves. The client lookup and the agent client_credentials grant stay on the rossoctl realm.

Applied to all 9 admin-token password grants across 5 demo docs:

  • weather-agent/demo-ui.md
  • github-issue/demo-ui.md (×2)
  • github-issue/demo-manual.md (×2)
  • github-issue/demo-rbac.md (×2)
  • github-issue/demo-aiac.md (×2, via REALM_NAME)

Misleading "from the rossoctl realm" comments updated to match.

Deliberately left unchanged: the WRONG_ISSUER_TOKEN master-realm negative test in demo-manual.md/demo-rbac.md, the client_credentials agent-token grants (correctly rossoctl), and /admin/realms/rossoctl/clients admin-API paths.

Verification

Ran the full sequence on a local Kind cluster with only the realm changed to master:

admin token len: 766
CLIENT_ID=spiffe://localtest.me/ns/team1/sa/weather-service  secret_len=32
agent token http=200  token_len=1262

Closes #797

Assisted-By: Claude Code

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Documentation
    • Updated deployment and demo instructions to obtain administrator tokens from Keycloak’s master realm.
    • Clarified administrator credentials and noted that the application realm’s administrator password is randomly generated.
    • Corrected token-generation examples across GitHub issue, RBAC, UI, and weather-agent demos.

…ssoctl#797)

The in-pod credential steps fetched the Keycloak admin token from the
`rossoctl` realm using admin/admin, but that credential belongs to the
`master` realm — the rossoctl realm admin password is randomly generated
per deploy. The password grant returned 401 invalid_grant, so ADMIN_TOKEN,
CLIENT_ID/CLIENT_SECRET, and the agent TOKEN all came back null.

Switch the admin-token password grant to the `master` realm (admin/admin is
stable and documented; the master admin has cross-realm rights, so the
/admin/realms/rossoctl/clients lookup still works). The client lookup and the
agent client_credentials grant stay on the `rossoctl` realm. Verified
end-to-end on a local Kind cluster.

Does not touch the intentional WRONG_ISSUER_TOKEN master-realm negative test
in demo-manual.md/demo-rbac.md.

Assisted-By: Claude Code
Signed-off-by: Paolo Dettori <dettori@us.ibm.com>
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The AuthBridge demo instructions now obtain Keycloak admin tokens from the master realm using admin/admin. Subsequent client and agent-token operations remain in the rossoctl realm where applicable.

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AuthBridge demo token instructions

Layer / File(s) Summary
Update admin-token instructions
authbridge/demos/github-issue/demo-aiac.md, authbridge/demos/github-issue/demo-manual.md, authbridge/demos/github-issue/demo-rbac.md, authbridge/demos/github-issue/demo-ui.md, authbridge/demos/weather-agent/demo-ui.md
All affected admin-token examples now target Keycloak’s master realm. The guides document the admin/admin credentials where applicable. Subsequent realm-specific operations remain unchanged.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 3075f

The demos now request the admin token from the correct realm, but they still hardcode admin/admin, so environments using configured non-default credentials can fail before client lookup and authentication. Update the commands to use the configured credentials before merging.

Suggested reviewers: ibrahim2595, abigailgold

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authbridge/demos/github-issue/demo-aiac.md (1)

418-422: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Preserve the configurable Keycloak admin credential contract. The GitHub demo setup reads admin credentials from environment variables, but these commands hardcode admin/admin. Custom credentials therefore cause the master token request to return 401 and downstream client lookup to fail.

  • authbridge/demos/github-issue/demo-aiac.md#L418-L422: use the configured credentials.
  • authbridge/demos/github-issue/demo-aiac.md#L631-L635: use the configured credentials.
  • authbridge/demos/github-issue/demo-manual.md#L670-L675: use the configured credentials.
  • authbridge/demos/github-issue/demo-manual.md#L899-L903: use the configured credentials.
  • authbridge/demos/github-issue/demo-rbac.md#L670-L675: use the configured credentials.
  • authbridge/demos/github-issue/demo-rbac.md#L882-L886: use the configured credentials.
  • authbridge/demos/github-issue/demo-ui.md#L675-L680: use the configured credentials.
  • authbridge/demos/github-issue/demo-ui.md#L851-L855: use the configured credentials.
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In `@authbridge/demos/github-issue/demo-aiac.md` around lines 418 - 422, Replace
the hardcoded admin/admin values in each MASTER token request with the
configured Keycloak admin credential environment variables. Apply this to
authbridge/demos/github-issue/demo-aiac.md lines 418-422 and 631-635;
demo-manual.md lines 670-675 and 899-903; demo-rbac.md lines 670-675 and
882-886; and demo-ui.md lines 675-680 and 851-855, preserving the existing token
request structure.
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Outside diff comments:
In `@authbridge/demos/github-issue/demo-aiac.md`:
- Around line 418-422: Replace the hardcoded admin/admin values in each MASTER
token request with the configured Keycloak admin credential environment
variables. Apply this to authbridge/demos/github-issue/demo-aiac.md lines
418-422 and 631-635; demo-manual.md lines 670-675 and 899-903; demo-rbac.md
lines 670-675 and 882-886; and demo-ui.md lines 675-680 and 851-855, preserving
the existing token request structure.

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Correct, well-scoped fix for the null admin token. Verified live on a Kind cluster (kind-rossoctl): the old rossoctl-realm grant with admin/admin returns invalid_grant / Invalid user credentials (the null cascade you describe), while the new master-realm grant returns a token of length 766 — matching your own verification exactly. The master admin token also retains cross-realm rights: GET /admin/realms/rossoctl/clients → HTTP 200, so the downstream client lookup and agent client_credentials grant on the rossoctl realm still resolve.

Diff scope is exactly the 9 admin-token password grants; client lookups, agent client_credentials grants, and the WRONG_ISSUER master-realm negative test are correctly left untouched.

Author: pdettori (MEMBER — maintainer) · Areas: Docs (shell snippets) · .claude/.vscode: none · Commits: 1, signed-off · CI: passing

One non-blocking nit inline about comment parity in demo-aiac.md.

Assisted-By: Claude Code

REALM_NAME="rossoctl"

ADMIN_TOKEN=$(curl -s http://keycloak-service.keycloak.svc:8080/realms/${REALM_NAME}/protocol/openid-connect/token \
ADMIN_TOKEN=$(curl -s http://keycloak-service.keycloak.svc:8080/realms/master/protocol/openid-connect/token \

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nit — the other four docs gained a clarifying comment (# Get a Keycloak admin token from the master realm (admin/admin; the rossoctl realm admin password is randomly generated)), but the two admin-token grants in this file (this line and ~631) switch to realms/master with no comment while REALM_NAME="rossoctl" still sits just above. For parity with the sibling docs — and to explain the master-vs-rossoctl split to a reader — consider adding the same one-line comment here. Not blocking.

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pdettori merged commit 2102390 into rossoctl:main Aug 24, 2026
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