Chapter 1. Overview

Red Hat build of Keycloak is based on the Keycloak project, which enables you to secure your web applications by providing Web SSO capabilities based on popular standards such as OpenID Connect, OAuth 2.0, and SAML 2.0. The Red Hat build of Keycloak server acts as an OpenIDConnect or SAML-based identity provider (IdP), allowing your enterprise user directory or third-party IdP to secure your applications by using standards-based security tokens.

While preserving the power and functionality of Red Hat Single Sign-on, Red Hat build of Keycloak is faster, more flexible, and efficient. Red Hat build of Keycloak is an application built with Quarkus, which provides developers with flexibility and modularity. Quarkus provides a framework that is optimized for a container-first approach and provides many features for developing cloud-native applications.