Add authentication to applications and secure services with minimum effort. No need to deal with storing users or authenticating users.
Keycloak provides user federation, strong authentication, user management, fine-grained authorization, and more.
- Documentation
- User Mailing List - Mailing list for help and general questions about Keycloak
If you have found a security vulnerability, please look at the instructions on how to properly report it.
If you believe you have discovered a defect in Keycloak, please open an issue. Please remember to provide a good summary, description as well as steps to reproduce the issue.
To run Keycloak, download the distribution from our website. Unzip and run:
bin/kc.[sh|bat] start-dev
Alternatively, you can use the Docker image by running:
docker run quay.io/keycloak/keycloak start-dev
For more details refer to the Keycloak Documentation.
To build from source, refer to the building and working with the code base guide.
To run tests, refer to the running tests guide.
To write tests, refer to the writing tests guide.
Before contributing to Keycloak, please read our contributing guidelines. Participation in the Keycloak project is governed by the CNCF Code of Conduct.
- Keycloak - Keycloak Server and Java adapters
- Keycloak QuickStarts - QuickStarts for getting started with Keycloak
- Keycloak Node.js Connect - Node.js adapter for Keycloak