Insights on Identity, Security & Keycloak
Tutorials, deep dives, and best practices from the Skycloak team.
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
Let Product Teams Onboard Apps Without Handing Out Keycloak Admin
Product teams need Keycloak clients. Your IAM team shouldn't hand out admin. Compare the two patterns that work: a self-service…
9 min read
Managing Keycloak Secrets the Right Way (Vault SPI)
Keep secrets out of Keycloak config: use the Keycloak vault SPI to resolve database, SMTP, and client secrets from a…
10 min read
Keycloak Is Not Your Identity Store: Shadow Accounts and the Broker Pattern
Keycloak rarely owns your users. It keeps shadow accounts, authenticates, and issues a JWT. Where identity, authentication, and authorization really…
11 min read
Federate or Migrate? Your Legacy User Store Is Now in the Login Path
Federating a legacy user store into Keycloak avoids a big-bang migration, but it puts someone else's database in your login…
10 min read
Keycloak Password Policy Best Practices
Configure Keycloak password policies the modern way: length over complexity, breached-password and blacklist checks, hashing iterations, and per-realm enforcement.
9 min read
How Much RAM and CPU Does Keycloak Need in Production?
How much RAM and CPU does Keycloak need? What actually drives resource use, realistic starting points, JVM heap sizing, and…
12 min read
Keycloak 26.7 Stateless Mode: Multi-Region Without Infinispan
Keycloak 26.7's stateless preview kills the external Infinispan requirement for multi-cluster. We tested it on YugabyteDB and mapped a multi-cloud…
9 min read
The Top 11 IDaaS Providers Compared (2026 Edition)
Compare 11 IDaaS providers across three categories: Auth0, Cognito, Clerk, Stytch, WorkOS, and managed Keycloak, with verified 2026 pricing at…
11 min read
Keycloak Versions: Latest Release, History, and Upgrade Guide
Keycloak's latest version is 26.7.0, released July 9, 2026. See the full version history, support policy, and how to upgrade…
6 min read
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