Remember when every website had its own username and password? Each website you visited had different log in rules, and, as a user, it was all so tedious and hard to keep straight!

Thank goodness those experiences are uncommon now. And Keycloak is part of the reason why.

In this episode of 🌩️Thunder, Alexander Schwartz, Keycloak maintainer at IBM, walks through an example Keycloak flow. He shows how a login screen gets customized, how tokens keep you signed in without re-entering your password every five minutes, and how admins can run the whole thing from a simple UI or automate it with a REST API. Heck yeah.

The bottom line is that Keycloak enables you to run your own identity and access management system, free of vendor lock-in, in a highly customizable way.

Watch here: youtu.be/Kvb4PMIgR…

Thumbnail for the 🌩️Thunder episode "What Is Keycloak? Open Source Identity and Access Management." Whitney Lee, laughing and pointing at her cheek, appears on the left in front of a lightboard covered in handwritten notes about identity management, two-factor authentication, and a numbered Keycloak login flow diagram. Alexander Schwartz appears on the right in a dark blazer, wearing glasses, with his name in large white letters below him next to the word "With."