KEYCLOAK REALMS - what they really are & how to use them for Multi-Tenancy | Niko Köbler (@dasniko)

#Keycloak #Realms are one of the most misunderstood concepts. Often (SaaS-)companies want to use realms as a discriminator for #MultiTenancy. But this is not always the best approach.

In this video I explain what realms actually are and discuss the various options you have when using realms for multi-tenancy w/o any other 3rd party extension.

📖 Chapters:
0:00 - Intro
0:25 - What Keycloak Realms actually are
2:08 - 3 Options for Multi-Tenancy
2:20 - Option 1: 1 Realm + attributes
4:06 - Option 2: 1 Realm or each Tenant
5:58 - Option 3: n Tenant Realms + 1 Application Realm
9:31 - Summary & Conclusion
10:03 - Outro


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