migration-guides
Articles about migration-guides from the Skycloak team.
One Login Form, Three Systems: Retrofitting Keycloak into a Legacy PHP Monolith
How a 12-year-old PHP monolith and LimeSurvey got one Keycloak user store without a new login form: migrate on login,…
9 min readWho Has to Sign Off When You Replace Your Login Provider?
Who must sign off when you replace your login provider: finance, security, legal, support and app owners, what each needs…
6 min readHow Do You Tell Customers You Are Changing Your Login System?
A communication plan for an identity provider migration: who to tell, when, what the notice says, how to prepare support,…
7 min readIs Waiting to Replace Your Identity Provider Cheaper?
Waiting to replace your identity provider is cheaper only while nothing changes. How the cost of staying grows, what moving…
8 min readWhat Does It Cost to Move Off Your Identity Provider?
What switching identity providers really costs: the budget lines, the costs teams forget, a phased plan with owners, and how…
9 min readDual-Run Cutover from Azure AD B2C: Passwords, Apps, and Rollback
Plan an Azure B2C migration that cannot lock customers out: dual-run both IdPs, handle unexportable password hashes, cut apps in…
11 min readAzure AD B2C Custom Policies (IEF) to Keycloak Flows: Mapping Guide
Map Azure AD B2C custom policies to Keycloak: TrustFramework XML, technical profiles, claims transformations, and user journeys translated into Keycloak…
12 min readAzure AD B2C vs Entra External ID vs Keycloak: Three Exit Paths
Azure AD B2C is closed to new customers. Compare the three exit paths: stay on B2C, move to Microsoft Entra…
10 min readAzure AD B2C End of Sale and Support Timeline (What Microsoft Actually Said)
What Microsoft actually said about Azure AD B2C: end of sale for new customers on May 1, 2025, support until…
10 min readEntra Is Retiring SMS MFA: A Keycloak Passkey Migration Plan
Microsoft retires its own SMS and voice MFA delivery on 1 February 2027. Here is what that actually changes, and…
11 min readStay ahead on identity & security
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