Tutorials
Keycloak Tutorials on different problems developers face on their day to day as DevOps, UI or infrastructure engineers. Regardless of your experience!
Keycloak CIMD for MCP: Client ID Metadata Documents for Claude Code and VS Code
Keycloak has shipped experimental CIMD support since 26.6 behind the cimd flag. Here is the client policy that lets Claude…
11 min read
Keycloak Authentication Error Handling: Custom Error Pages
Customize Keycloak error pages, handle OAuth/OIDC errors in your app, and configure brute force protection for secure, user-friendly authentication.
11 min read
Identity Governance Workflows in Keycloak: Access Requests
Build automated access request and approval workflows with Keycloak using custom required actions, the Admin REST API, and group-based access…
10 min read
Keycloak with Spring Boot in Docker, Then Managed
Run Keycloak in Docker with a Spring Boot app, then move the same app to managed Keycloak without changing code.…
9 min read
Monitoring Keycloak with Prometheus and Grafana
Monitor Keycloak with Prometheus and Grafana: enable metrics, track authentication KPIs, build dashboards, and define SLOs for your identity stack.
9 min read
Single Sign-On for HashiCorp Vault with Keycloak (OIDC)
Set up OIDC single sign-on for HashiCorp Vault with Keycloak: configure the auth method, map groups to Vault policies, and…
13 min read
Keycloak MFA: Configuration Patterns for Enterprise
How to set up Keycloak MFA: OTP policies, WebAuthn, conditional flows that apply MFA selectively, client-specific overrides, and detecting MFA…
21 min read
Keycloak Admin REST API: Manage Realms, Clients, and Users with curl
Use the Keycloak Admin REST API to create realms, clients, roles, groups, and users with curl. Every request tested against…
11 min read
SCIM API: Building and Testing a SCIM 2.0 Endpoint
What a SCIM API has to implement to satisfy Okta and Entra ID: endpoints, PATCH semantics, filtering, pagination, error shapes,…
7 min read
Add Authentication to a Python App on Fly.io with Keycloak
Add OIDC login to a Python app on Fly.io with Keycloak: Flask + Authlib walkthrough, fly secrets, the ProxyFix redirect-URI…
10 min read
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