Nextcloud on Janik von Rotz

RSS forever

Tue, 05 May 2026 08:15:17 +0200

Every blogger and reader of blogs knows about RSS. It enables subscribing to a website and receive updates to an inbox (RSS reader) since 1999. In terms of internet standards that makes it very old.

RSS has been proclaimed to be dead many times. Popular RSS readers have come and gone. But it seems RSS will surpass us.

Nextcloud Social Login with Gitlab

Mon, 17 May 2021 13:18:01 +0200

This example shows one way to configure GitLab as an OpenID Connect (OIDC) identity provider, so that only members a specific GitLab group are allowed to login.

OpenID Connect with Nextcloud and Keycloak

Tue, 20 Oct 2020 08:43:32 +0200

Keycloak and Nextcloud are both popular open source software. The first is an identity provider and broker, the second one is collaboration platform. Instead of having multiple accounts on several online platforms, you want to have one identity and log into multiple platforms. This is the job of the OpenID Connect protocol and is supported by Keycloak. In this guide I walk you through the steps of connecting Nextcloud with Keycloak to support a seamless single sign-on experience.

Configure SAML Authentication for Nextcloud with Keycloack

Tue, 21 Apr 2020 12:05:28 +0200

Introduction

The complex problems of identity and access management (IAM) have challenged big companies and in result we got powerful protocols, technologies and concepts such as SAML, oAuth, Keycloack, tokens and much more.

The goal of IAM is simple. Centralize all identities, policies and get rid of application identity stores. Not only is more secure to manage logins in one place, but you can also offer a better user experience. As the title says we want to connect our centralized identity management software Keycloack with our application Nextcloud.