Summary

In this chapter, we covered the main steps to configure Keycloak for production. With the information provided herein, you should now be aware of the main steps and configuration to successfully deploy Keycloak for high availability. You learned that when deploying Keycloak in production, you should always use a secure channel using HTTPS, as well as the importance of setting up the hostname provider to configure how Keycloak issues tokens and exposes its endpoints through the OpenID Connect Discovery document. You also learned about the importance of using a production-grade database and its impact on the overall performance and availability of Keycloak, as well as on data consistency and integrity. Lastly, you learned how to configure and run a cluster with multiple Keycloak instances and how to use a reverse proxy to distribute load across these instances.

In the next chapter, you will learn how to manage users in Keycloak, as well as integrating Keycloak with different...