Identity Federation for AI Platforms Using Keycloak.

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Identity Federation is a system that allows individuals to use the same identification data to obtain access to the networks of all enterprises in the group. Keycloak is an open-source software product that allows single sign-on with Identity and Access Management aimed at modern applications and services. With Keycloak, you can set up Identity Federation to create a single point of access management for your applications, regardless of where they are hosted.

If you want to integrate federated identities from AI platforms using Keycloak with the various cloud providers, you would use the relevant Pulumi resources from the respective cloud providers to set up the infrastructure required for Keycloak to interact with. Also, a Keycloak instance would have to be deployed and properly configured.

As an example, let's create a simple Keycloak server setup that could serve as a starting point for setting up Identity Federation. Below, I've included a Pulumi program written in Python that deploys Keycloak on a Kubernetes cluster.

```python
import pulumi
from pulumi_kubernetes.apps.v1 import Deployment
from pulumi_kubernetes.core.v1 import Service
from pulumi_kubernetes.helm.v3 import Chart, ChartOpts

# We are using the Helm chart to deploy Keycloak for simplicity
keycloak_chart = Chart(
    "keycloak",
    ChartOpts(
        chart="keycloak",
        version="15.0.2",  # Specify the version you want to deploy
        fetch_opts={
            "repo": "http://charts.bitnami.com/bitnami"  # Keycloak Helm repo
        },
        values={
            "auth": {
                "adminUser": "admin",  # Set the admin username
                "adminPassword": "password"  # Set a strong password for the admin user
            },
            "service": {
                "type": "LoadBalancer"  # Expose Keycloak externally via a Load Balancer
            },
            # Additional settings can be configured based on your preferences and requirements.
        },
    )
)

# Export the Keycloak admin password. In a real-world scenario, you should keep secret values out of outputs.
pulumi.export('keycloak_admin_password', keycloak_chart.get_resource('v1/Secret', 'keycloak-admin-password').data['admin-password'])

# Export the Keycloak URL to access the admin console. This assumes you're using LoadBalancer service type.
pulumi.export('keycloak_url', pulumi.Output.concat("http://", Service.get('keycloak-service', keycloak_chart.get_resource_name('v1/Service', 'keycloak')).status.apply(lambda status: status.load_balancer.ingress[0].ip if status.load_balancer.ingress else 'pending')))
```

What this Pulumi script does:

1. It deploys Keycloak using a Helm chart. Helm is a package manager for Kubernetes, which simplifies deployment of applications and services.
2. It sets up an administrative user for Keycloak with a username and password that you define. For security purposes, you should provide a strong admin password, and in a production environment, you would retrieve this from a secure source.
3. It uses a LoadBalancer service to expose Keycloak externally, which allows you to access Keycloak outside of your cluster.

After deploying Keycloak, you would configure it to federate identities from your AI platform, typically involving setting up identity providers within Keycloak and potentially syncing users and groups.

Remember that this is a basic setup and doesn't include best practices for a production environment, like using a secure method for handling secrets and passwords. It's important to follow security best practices in a real-world scenario.

Keycloak is highly configurable and supports federating identities from various sources, not only AI platforms. You would need to check Keycloak's documentation for the specifics of integrating with the AI platform you're using, but typically this involves configuring Keycloak with the details of your identity providers (like connection URLs, client IDs/secrets, and what federation protocols to use).

Keep in mind that to run this code, you must have Pulumi setup, with access to a Kubernetes cluster, and your Pulumi CLI must be configured with cloud account credentials. This can be run by saving the script to a file, say `deploy_keycloak.py`, and then executing it with the Pulumi CLI using `pulumi up`.