Chapter 9: Configuring Keycloak for Production

So far, you have learned how to use Keycloak, the key concepts, and how to start using it to secure your applications. In this chapter, you will be creating a pre-production Keycloak cluster to understand all the different aspects and steps when configuring it for production, such as if you were deploying it in bare metal or in a VM.

You should consider the same configuration aspects when running Keycloak as a container. Although, in this case, most of the configuration is done transparently by the container image, the concepts from this chapter are still useful to understand how containers are configured and what you should consider when deploying Keycloak on OpenShift or Kubernetes.

In the next sections, you will be introduced to each of these aspects and how they fit into a real production deployment of Keycloak. At the end of this chapter, you should be able to apply the same steps and recommendations provided herein to deploy...