keycloak-operations
Articles about keycloak-operations from the Skycloak team.
How Many Realms Can One Keycloak Cluster Handle? We Measured It
How many realms one Keycloak cluster can handle, measured: the cache settings to reach thousands, why restarts hit 7.5 minutes,…
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Keycloak Backup and Restore: A Practical Guide
How to back up and restore Keycloak: why the database is the source of truth, backing up PostgreSQL, realm exports…
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Introducing Locke: a Keycloak Distribution That Lets You Choose Your Cache
Locke is an Apache 2.0 Keycloak distribution with embedded Infinispan or a Redis cache backend, selectable at boot with KC_CACHE,…
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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.
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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.
11 min read
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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