Building an IAM Platform on Keycloak 25 in Kubernetes

Keycloak is the default answer when you need OIDC and SAML, a user federation layer, and an admin surface that other teams can operate — without writing an authorization server yourself. It joined the CNCF as an incubating project in 2023, and the 25.0 release (June 2024) is the cleanest it has ever been to run on Kubernetes: the WildFly distribution is gone, health and metrics moved off the public port, and hostname configuration was rebuilt. ...

July 16, 2024 · 8 min