Keycloak Essentials

Open Source Identity Solution for Applications, Services, and APIs

In this post, we will see the core concept of Keycloak and application integration mechanisms. You can integrate frontend, mobile, monolithic application to microservice architecture. It gives the flexibility to export and import configuration easily and gives a single view to manage everything.

Why I should use Keycloak?

• Reliable Solution

“Red Hat running on Red Hat products (Red Hat SSO)”: the entire authentication/authorization system is based on Red Hat SSO, which is the downstream version of upstream product keycloak. It is designed following the standard security protocols to provide a dynamic single sign-on solution to small/large scale industry.

• Open Source (3C’s) : Cost, Customizable / Contributions, Community

Apache License Version 2.0 with support of strong active open source community

Is it ready for production?

Yes, it can be used in production (Make sure to ready documentation guide)

Standard Protocols (supported by keycloak)

• OpenID Connect
• OAuth 2.0
• SAML 2.0

Applications/Tools that support integration with the above protocols can be plugged with Keycloak.

eg: Ansible tower can be integrated with keycloak or SAP BusinessIntelligence BI Platform SAML with Keycloak etc