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keycloak-operations

Articles about keycloak-operations from the Skycloak team.

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Introducing Locke: a Keycloak Distribution That Lets You Choose Your Cache

Locke is an Apache 2.0 distribution of Keycloak that ships with both embedded Infinispan and a Redis cache backend, selectable…

Guilliano Molaire Guilliano Molaire 6 min read
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Keycloak on Redis: Benchmarking Locke vs Embedded Infinispan

A production benchmark of Keycloak caching on Redis (Locke) vs embedded Infinispan: ~100% throughput parity, sub-second node-loss recovery vs 31-40s.

Guilliano Molaire Guilliano Molaire 10 min read
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Keycloak Event Streaming and Webhooks: Real-Time Integration

Build real-time integrations with Keycloak events. Learn the Event Listener SPI, custom webhook providers, Kafka integration, and event filtering patterns.

Guilliano Molaire Guilliano Molaire 11 min read
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Keycloak User Federation: Building a Custom Provider

Build a custom Keycloak UserStorageProvider SPI for user federation with external databases, covering credential validation, caching, and lazy loading.

Guilliano Molaire Guilliano Molaire 15 min read
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Keycloak on Kubernetes: Production Deployment Guide

Deploy Keycloak on Kubernetes for production with StatefulSets, PostgreSQL, TLS ingress, HPA autoscaling, Infinispan clustering, and resource management.

Guilliano Molaire Guilliano Molaire 9 min read
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Keycloak Database Tuning: PostgreSQL Optimization Guide

Optimize PostgreSQL for Keycloak with connection pooling, index tuning, autovacuum configuration, session table management, and event store partitioning.

Guilliano Molaire Guilliano Molaire 11 min read
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Keycloak Ansible Automation: Provisioning and Configuration

Automate Keycloak realm, client, and user provisioning at scale with Ansible playbooks using community.general.keycloak modules and Ansible Vault for secrets.

Guilliano Molaire Guilliano Molaire 9 min read
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Keycloak Terraform Advanced Patterns: Modules and Workspaces

Master advanced Terraform patterns for Keycloak including reusable modules, workspace-per-environment strategy, remote state, and CI/CD pipeline integration.

Guilliano Molaire Guilliano Molaire 10 min read
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Keycloak with Pulumi: Infrastructure as Code for IAM

Learn how to manage Keycloak realms, clients, and roles as code using Pulumi with TypeScript and Python for repeatable, version-controlled…

Guilliano Molaire Guilliano Molaire 9 min read
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Keycloak Helm vs Operator: Which to Use on Kubernetes

Comparison of Keycloak deployment methods on Kubernetes. Covers the Bitnami Helm chart vs Keycloak Operator with CRDs, auto-scaling, and production…

Guilliano Molaire Guilliano Molaire 8 min read

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