Install and Startup Keycloak

Keycloak is an open source software product (Apache License 2.0) identity and access management solution. This post walks you through an extremely quick setup of this product.

Download Keycloak

1. Download Keycloak from here.

Install Keycloak

1. Run these commands (filename may differ depending on version):

mkdir -p /u01/keycloak
cd /u01/keycloak
unzip keycloak-11.0.0.zip

Startup Keycloak

1. Run these commands to start Keycloak:

cd /u01/keycloak/keycloak-11.0.0
bin/standalone.sh

First Time Login

1. Login to the Keycloak Admin Console to do a first time setup of the admin account.

References

• https://www.keycloak.org/getting-started/getting-started-zip