Insights on Identity, Security & Keycloak
Tutorials, deep dives, and best practices from the Skycloak team.
Keycloak Auditing & Event Logging: The Complete Guide
A complete guide to Keycloak auditing: login and admin events, event listeners, retention, SIEM forwarding, alerting, and security best practices.
16 min read
Keycloak Passkeys & WebAuthn: The Complete Guide
Set up passkey authentication in Keycloak with WebAuthn, for passwordless login and phishing-resistant 2FA: required actions, flows, policies, browser support.
14 min read
Keycloak as a SAML Service Provider: The Complete Guide
Configure Keycloak as a SAML 2.0 Service Provider: identity brokering, metadata exchange, assertion validation, attribute mapping, and common SP errors.
14 min read
Keycloak vs Stytch: Comparison for Modern Auth
Keycloak vs Stytch compared: open-source self-hosted IdP vs a developer-first passwordless auth API. Protocols, passwordless/passkeys, control, and cost model.
10 min read
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…
17 min read
The Keycloak Security Hardening Checklist
Keycloak security hardening checklist: TLS, proxy and hostname config, brute-force defense, token and session settings, admin access, and audit logging.
10 min read
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,…
10 min read
Keycloak vs Frontegg: CIAM for B2B SaaS Compared
Keycloak vs Frontegg for B2B SaaS user management: open-source self-hosted IdP vs a managed CIAM with self-service admin portals. Features,…
9 min read
Microsoft Entra ID Explained for Keycloak Engineers (OIDC)
Every Entra ID concept mapped to its Keycloak equivalent: tenants to realms, app registrations to clients, and where the OIDC…
4 min read
Migrating Cloud Foundry UAA to Keycloak: The Playbook
A practical UAA to Keycloak migration guide: map identity zones to realms, rebuild UAA token claims with protocol mappers, and…
9 min read
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