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<h2 id="history">History</h2> <p>The first production release of Keycloak was in September 2014, with development having started about a year earlier. In 2016, Red Hat switched the RH SSO product from being based on the PicketLink framework to being based on the Keycloak upstream Project.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4"><sup>4</sup></a> This followed a merging of the PicketLink codebase into Keycloak.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:5" href="#fn:5"><sup>5</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:6" href="#fn:6"><sup>6</sup></a> </p><p>To some extent Keycloak can now also be considered a replacement of the Red Hat <i>JBoss SSO</i> open source product which was previously superseded by PicketLink.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:7" href="#fn:7"><sup>7</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:8" href="#fn:8"><sup>8</sup></a> As of March 2018<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Keycloak&action=edit">[update]</a>, JBoss.org is redirecting the old jbosssso subsite to the Keycloak website. The JBoss name is a registered trademark and Red Hat moved its upstream open source projects names to avoid using JBoss, <i>JBoss AS</i> to <i><a href="/facts/Wildfly/sdwoM5jn">Wildfly</a></i> being a more commonly recognized example.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:9" href="#fn:9"><sup>9</sup></a> </p> <h2 id="components">Components</h2> <p>There are two main components of Keycloak: </p> <ul><li>Keycloak server, including the <a href="/facts/API/GMlN4vUr">API</a> and graphical interface.</li> <li>Keycloak client. Previously Keycloak included a set of 'adapter' libraries, but those were discontinued in 2022.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:10" href="#fn:10"><sup>10</sup></a></li></ul> <h2 id="see-also">See also</h2> <ul><li><a href="/facts/OpenAM/CLYfnsPa">OpenAM</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/List_of_single_sign-on_implementations/5z2DWaX9">List of single sign-on implementations</a></li></ul> <h2 id="external-links">External links</h2> <ul><li><a href="https://www.keycloak.org/">Official website</a></li> <li><a href="https://github.com/keycloak">Keycloak</a> on <a href="/facts/GitHub/n1hNCsc3">GitHub</a></li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>"Keycloak joins CNCF as an incubating project". CNCF. Retrieved 2024-05-15. <a href="https://www.cncf.io/blog/2023/04/11/keycloak-joins-cncf-as-an-incubating-project/" target="_blank">https://www.cncf.io/blog/2023/04/11/keycloak-joins-cncf-as-an-incubating-project/</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>"Open Source Identity and Access Management". keycloak. Retrieved 2024-01-23. <a href="https://www.keycloak.org/" target="_blank">https://www.keycloak.org/</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>Zięba, Michał (2024-10-31). "Keycloak & Docker integration tutorial: Learn how to do it step by step". Pretius. Retrieved 2024-12-03. <a href="https://pretius.com/blog/keycloak-docker/?_gl=1*6yf5w5*_ga*MjEwMTcwMzExMC4xNzMzMjIzODY0*_up*MQ..*_ga_DFQGYJ9222*MTczMzIyMzg2Mi4xLjEuMTczMzIyMzg2Mi4wLjAuMA.." target="_blank">https://pretius.com/blog/keycloak-docker/?_gl=1*6yf5w5*_ga*MjEwMTcwMzExMC4xNzMzMjIzODY0*_up*MQ..*_ga_DFQGYJ9222*MTczMzIyMzg2Mi4xLjEuMTczMzIyMzg2Mi4wLjAuMA..</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>Atkisson, Brian (4 October 2016). "How Red Hat re-designed its Single Sign On (SSO) architecture, and why". Red Hat. Archived from the original on 9 January 2018. Retrieved 7 March 2018. <a href="https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2016/10/04/how-red-hat-re-designed-its-single-sign-on-sso-architecture-and-why/" target="_blank">https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2016/10/04/how-red-hat-re-designed-its-single-sign-on-sso-architecture-and-why/</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:5"><p>Dawidowicz, Boleslaw (10 March 2015). "PicketLink and Keycloak projects are merging!". PicketLink.org. Archived from the original on 11 September 2015. Retrieved 7 March 2018. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150911223051/http://picketlink.org/news/" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20150911223051/http://picketlink.org/news/</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:6"><p>Peeples, Kenneth (28 May 2014). "What is the difference between Picketlink and Keycloak?". JBossDeveloper. Archived from the original on 5 April 2017. Retrieved 7 March 2018. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170405213148/http://planet.jboss.org/post/what_is_the_difference_between_picketlink_and_keycloak" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20170405213148/http://planet.jboss.org/post/what_is_the_difference_between_picketlink_and_keycloak</a> <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:7"><p>"JBosssso (archived) Website". Archived from the original on 30 May 2014. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140530091607/http://jbosssso.jboss.org/" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20140530091607/http://jbosssso.jboss.org/</a> <a href="#fnref:7" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:8"><p>Kalali, Masoud (30 May 2010). GlassFish Security. PACKT. p. 182. ISBN 978-1-847199-38-6. <a href="978-1-847199-38-6" target="_blank">978-1-847199-38-6</a> <a href="#fnref:8" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:9"><p>"Load Balancing Wildfly and JBoss Application Servers with NGINX Open Source and NGINX Plus | NGINX Documentation". docs.nginx.com. Retrieved 2023-10-11. <a href="https://docs.nginx.com/nginx/deployment-guides/load-balance-third-party/wildfly/" target="_blank">https://docs.nginx.com/nginx/deployment-guides/load-balance-third-party/wildfly/</a> <a href="#fnref:9" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:10"><p>"Deprecation of Keycloak adapters - Keycloak". www.keycloak.org. Retrieved 2024-10-07. <a href="https://www.keycloak.org/2022/02/adapter-deprecation" target="_blank">https://www.keycloak.org/2022/02/adapter-deprecation</a> <a href="#fnref:10" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>