Chapter 1. High availability overview

Explore the different Red Hat build of Keycloak high-availability architectures.

Red Hat build of Keycloak can be deployed in a number of high-availability architectures, allowing system administrators to pick the deployment type most suitable for their needs. Ease of deployment, cost and fault-tolerance guarantees are important considerations when determining the correct architecture for your deployments.

Any Red Hat build of Keycloak deployment must be installed on a properly configured OpenShift cluster that has been configured per the OpenShift installation instructions. For any Red Hat build of Keycloak installations on OpenShift clusters that span multiple sites (i.e. single cluster or multi-clusters across multiple availability zones) the OpenShift cluster must adhere to the Guidance for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform Clusters.

Ultimately high availability architectures involve many components in addition to the software running and the responsibility for availability of the service is with the customer. This guide has recommended practices for using the Red Hat build of Keycloak in such high availability architectures.