Keycloak: Open-source identity and access management
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2007–2026One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.
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HN comment orderKeycloak is a great piece of engineering. It's a robust IAM, fully-featured, easy to deploy and integrate with. My opinion is that people should rely on battle-tested 3rd party solution like Keycloak for their authentication and authorization needs. We run it in production on GCP and it integrates nicely with the Clojure ecosystem (both on the frontend with a SPA and on the backend dealing with REST API security). Shameless plug: I maintain the keycloak-clojure wrapper…
In Keycloak nothing made sense to me until I got myself familiar with OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect. Keycloaks documentation seems vast, but isn't. There is also no way to search inside their documentation. It's a pity. A better documentation is contained in the administration web ui itself. There are so many "hints" and tooltips for almost every option there is. It really helped me a lot. Keycloak is good software. It never failed for me. Even upgrading from 7.x.x…
Discussions: 2022 (388 points, 238 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31258469 2020 (455 points, 123 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22871180
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- Breakout years
- 2
- Total points
- 850
- Total comments
- 357
100+ points or 50+ comments
reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-04-14 | Keycloak: Open-source identity and access managementFirst breakout · Best thread | fanf2 | 455 | 122 |
| 2022-05-04 | Keycloak: Open-Source Identity and Access ManagementLatest 20+ point return | memorable | 388 | 234 |
| 2024-12-18 | Open Source Identity and Access Management | xupybd | 4 | 1 |
| 2025-06-17 | Keycloak: Open-Source Identity and Access Management | EtienneK | 3 | 0 |