We implement and operate Keycloak and Red Hat Build of Keycloak (RHBK) so you control authentication for millions of users without depending on third parties, without vendor lock-in, and without billing surprises.
The Problem
These are the real-world scenarios we see in companies without a professional IAM solution.
Your team has spent 3 sprints maintaining a homegrown JWT login with middleware nobody documented. Each microservice has its own validation logic. One staging change breaks auth in 4 services at once. There's no single source of truth about who has access to what.
Technical debtThe SOC 2 auditor asks: "Show me the centralized log of who accessed which resource in the last 90 days." Silence. Logs are scattered across 12 microservices with different formats. The team spends weeks assembling a CSV by hand. Certification gets delayed by months.
ComplianceYou started with Auth0's free tier. Now you have 200K users, need adaptive MFA, and the monthly bill exceeds $15K USD. The CFO asks why you spend more on authentication than on compute. Migrating is a 6-month project nobody wants to lead.
Hidden costsA senior engineer leaves on a Friday. HR closes their email on Monday, but their admin-scope API token and their active production session are still alive. No centralized offboarding. Three weeks later they discover he could still delete the customer database.
Security riskYou chose Cognito because "we're already on AWS." Two years later you need to federate identity with a SAML partner, implement CIBA for a B2B flow, and support multi-tenancy. Cognito can't. You're trapped: migrating 500K users with proprietary hashes that AWS doesn't export. Your "simple decision" became a prison that costs 6 months of engineering to escape.
Vendor lock-inThe Solution
A single system for authentication, authorization, identity federation and session management. Deployed on your infrastructure, under your control.
One login for all your applications. OIDC, SAML 2.0, OAuth 2.0 out-of-the-box. Your users authenticate once and access the entire ecosystem.
Connect Active Directory, LDAP, Google, Azure AD, or any external IdP. Centralize identity management without migrating users.
TOTP, WebAuthn, FIDO2, passkeys. Multifactor and passwordless authentication without depending on external MFA providers.
Multi-realm or organization-based architectures for SaaS, holding companies, or B2B ecosystems with full isolation between tenants.
Community vs Enterprise
Same engine. Different level of guarantee. For when your business depends on it working 24/7.
Ideal for development, startups and environments where your team can assume full maintenance responsibility.
For enterprise production where you need SLAs, certifications, and someone to answer at 3AM.
Dedicated Security Response Team. Critical CVEs patched in 24–48h with contractually guaranteed distribution. In regulated sectors, this is the difference between passing or failing an audit.
FIPS 140-2/140-3 for cryptography and Common Criteria. If you sell to federal government, banking or healthcare, these certifications are not optional. Self-certifying costs six figures.
Native integration with OpenShift, Ansible Automation Platform, and RHEL. One contract, one vendor, unified support for the entire stack.
Keycloak community is like Linux. RHBK is like Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Both use the same engine. But when your business depends on that engine running 24/7, you want someone who answers the phone at 3AM, guarantees security patches by contract, and certifies that the software meets your industry regulations. You don't pay for the software — you pay for peace of mind.
Services
We don't sell consulting hours. We sell results with clear deliverables.
From zero to production in weeks, not months.
HA architecture and deployment: Keycloak/RHBK topology in high availability on Kubernetes/OpenShift with distributed Infinispan, end-to-end TLS and Operator configured for zero-downtime rolling upgrades.
Identity federation: Integration with Active Directory/LDAP + Identity Brokering with external providers (Google, Azure AD, SAML IdPs) with attribute mappers and first-login flows.
Hardening and security: Password policies, brute-force detection, MFA (TOTP/WebAuthn/FIDO2), session management, CSP headers. Delivered with documented operational runbook.
Leave Auth0, Cognito or your homegrown login without a single user noticing the change.
Audit and mapping: Complete inventory of applications, protocols (OIDC/SAML/OAuth2), custom claims, roles and existing authentication flows. Gap analysis with migration roadmap.
Progressive migration: Lazy migration strategy with hash-compatibility or bulk import, preserving active sessions. Dual-run period with authentication proxy for instant rollback.
Cutover and validation: Migration of each Relying Party with E2E testing per environment. Cutover runbook with checklist and documented rollback plan.
Get ready for SOC 2, ISO 27001 or PCI DSS before the auditor arrives.
Configuration audit: Review of realms, clients, flows, token lifetimes, CORS, signing algorithms, exposed admin endpoints and session fixation risks. Report with CVSS severity.
Event logging and audit trail: Event pipeline to SIEM (Splunk, ELK, Datadog). Access dashboards, failed logins, administrative changes and anomalous behavior alerts.
Control documentation: Pre-formatted evidence for SOC 2 / ISO 27001: access control matrices, MFA policies, offboarding procedures and periodic review records.
When out-of-the-box isn't enough, we build what's missing.
Custom SPIs and Auth Flows: Custom authenticators (step-up auth, risk-based MFA, CIBA), User Storage SPIs for non-standard backends, and Event Listener SPIs for integrations with internal systems.
Branded themes and UX: Responsive themes for login, registration, account console and transactional emails aligned with your design system, including self-registration with domain validation.
Advanced multi-tenancy: Multi-realm architectures, custom protocol mappers for business claims, and token exchange flows for microservices with delegation chains.
Technologies
Protocols, platforms and tools from the Keycloak ecosystem.
Frequently asked questions
Keycloak is the leading open source identity and access management (IAM) platform: single sign-on, user federation, OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect and SAML. Red Hat Build of Keycloak (RHBK) is Red Hat's enterprise distribution of the same project, with commercial support, an extended lifecycle and certified security patches. We implement both depending on your support and compliance needs.
A SaaS provider charges per active user and hosts your identities off-shore. Keycloak makes sense when you need sovereignty over identity data, predictable costs at scale, or custom integrations (LDAP, Active Directory, your own SPIs) without paying per user. If you are locked in today, we also handle the migration.
We do not sell per-user licenses: we scope by project (applications to integrate, federations, high availability and user migration). A typical implementation takes 4 to 10 weeks. We start with a free initial consultation to size your case.
Yes. We deliver managed support and operations: updates, security patches, monitoring and incident response, with or without a Red Hat subscription. If you want to automate the full deployment cycle, see our DevOps service.
Let's talk about how to implement Keycloak in your organization with full sovereignty over your identity data.
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