What Is Keycloak? Open Source Identity and Access Management

Remember when every website had its own username and password? Different rules, different logins, no way to share identity between applications. That pain drove the creation of standards like OpenID Connect (OIDC), as well as tools like Keycloak that let you run your own identity and access management system. Whitney Lee and Alexander Schwartz (Keycloak maintainer) walk through a Keycloak flow: customizable login, token-based authentication with OIDC, realm-based tenant separation, and an admin experience that scales from a web UI to fully automated REST APIs. Whitney and Alex also cover how access tokens, identity tokens, and refresh tokens work together to keep users authenticated without constantly re-entering credentials. Keycloak is a CNCF Incubating project. It supports OpenID Connect and SAML, runs on your own infrastructure, and is free to deploy however many times you need. Prefer the full ⚡ Enlightning episode? Keycloak: The Open Source IAM for Modern Applications →    • ⚡️ Enlightning - Keycloak: The Open Source...   Watch all ⚡ Enlightning episodes →    • ⚡️ Enlightning   Watch all 🌩️ Thunder episodes →    • 🌩️ Thunder   ( ᐛ ) Subscribe to Whitney's YouTube channel →    / @wiggitywhitney   #Keycloak #IAM #IdentityManagement #OpenIDConnect #OIDC #CloudNative #CNCF ▬▬▬▬▬▬ ⚡️ Related Links ⚡️ ▬▬▬▬▬▬ 🔗 Keycloak → https://www.keycloak.org 🔗 Keycloak GitHub → https://github.com/keycloak 🔗 Keycloak Benchmark Project → https://github.com/keycloak/keycloak-... 🔗 CNCF Slack → https://slack.cncf.io (channels: #keycloak, #keycloak-dev) 0:00 - What is Keycloak? 0:57 - The Problem: Life Before Keycloak 2:24 - What is Identity & Access Management (IAM)? 3:24 - How Keycloak Solves The Problem 4:07 - The Login Flow (What the User Sees) 5:15 - The Administrator Experience (UI, Realms & Automation) 6:35 - The Open ID Connect (OIDC) Flow Explained 8:35 - Access vs. Identity vs. Refresh Tokens 10:31 - Performance: The Keycloak Benchmark Project 11:35 - Where to Learn More & Get Help