Keycloak Consulting
for Regulated Enterprises
We help regulated enterprises deploy, secure, and operate Keycloak at the highest levels of availability, compliance, and resilience — while supporting the complex identity requirements of large enterprises.
Keycloak. Enterprise‑Ready with Midships.
Midhsips + Keycloak
What is Keycloak
Keycloak is a leading open‑source Identity and Access Management (IAM) platform. It provides Single Sign‑On (SSO), Multi‑Factor Authentication (MFA), user federation, and fine‑grained authorization for modern web and mobile applications.
Midships takes Keycloak from community‑grade to enterprise‑grade—closing gaps in uptime, scale, and operations so you can run a compliant, high‑performing CIAM program.
Why Keycloak Appeals to Enterprises
While this is all true, the reality is that organizations often struggle to implement high availability, predictable upgrades, multi‑cluster reliability, and advanced user/device journeys. That’s where Midships comes in.
01 Standards‑first
OIDC, OAuth2, SAML, LDAP/AD federation, WebAuthn
02 Lower licensing costs
Open‑source core; CPU‑based licensing models available for commercially supported builds
03 Composable architecture
Designed to work with external policy, fraud, and analytics systems
04 Freedom to customize
Extensible and flexible—no vendor lock‑in
Midships Keycloak Accelerator
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Reliability that Never Sleeps
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Zero‑downtime deployments and upgrades (blue/green, canary)
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HA clustering and multi‑site DR with rehearsed failovers
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Always‑on operations with SRE runbooks and synthetic monitoring
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Data safety & recovery: encrypted backups, point‑in‑time recovery (PITR), immutable snapshots, and tested RTO/RPO objectives with documented restore procedures
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Scale without Limits
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Elastic autoscaling on Kubernetes (EKS/AKS/GKE/OpenShift)
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Performance tuning for thousands of TPS and global workloads
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Infinispan/JGroups optimization and session/cache strategies
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Serverless‑ready topologies: option to run application pods on managed/serverless compute (e.g., EKS on Fargate, GKE Autopilot, Azure Container Apps/OpenShift Serverless) while maintaining a durable external database layer
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Modern Authentication Journeys
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Passwordless login (WebAuthn/passkeys) and device binding
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Silent device authentication and digital transaction signing
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Templated authenticators for step‑up MFA, recovery, re‑verification
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API‑First Identity
Out of the box, Keycloak pushes teams toward its UI‑bound flows and limited Direct Access Grants for programmatic auth. Midships provides an Extended Authentication Flow API that lets your applications invoke any Keycloak auth flow directly via API—not just web logins. This powers headless IAM and modular, enterprise‑grade journeys (including self‑service operations) without coupling user experience to the Keycloak UI.
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Authenticator Library
Our Authenticator Library provides production-ready building blocks for advanced journeys:
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Passwordless (device binding & passkeys)
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OTP generation/verification
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Profile creation and recovery flows
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General utilities (validation, rate‑limits, telemetry hooks)
These components accelerate custom flow design and ensure consistency across enterprise deployments.
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Everything‑as‑Code
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Git‑friendly realm/client/flow configuration
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CI/CD pipelines with audit‑ready promotion and automatic rollback
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Secrets/config rotation, encryption, and vault integrations
How We Help You Succeed
Implementation & Migration
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Greenfield deployments or migrations from legacy CIAM
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Configuration‑as‑Code and GitOps pipelines
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API‑first journeys, passwordless, and brand‑aligned themes
Advisory & Architecture
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Secure, compliant designs for banking, insurance, and gaming
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HA/DR blueprints, capacity plans, and observability design
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Risk controls, logging, and audit alignment
Managed Operations (24×7)
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SRE‑led operations with 99.999% uptime targets
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Upgrades, patches, capacity, and incident response
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Quarterly DR drills and evidence packs for auditors
Platform Choices & Support
Community Keycloak
Open‑source, maximum flexibility; Midships provides advisory and SRE overlays.
Red Hat build of Keycloak (RHBK)
Commercially supported Keycloak with published lifecycle; fully certified on OpenShift and supported on RHEL/Windows. On other Kubernetes platforms (e.g., EKS), the product remains supported but without OpenShift‑specific operator features; we design accordingly.
Cost & operations
EKS can minimize platform overhead when you manage add‑ons yourself; OpenShift/ROSA adds enterprise features and vendor support with higher service fees. We help you decide based on compliance needs, internal skills, and TCO.
Proof of Performance
Zero‑Downtime
Deployments and upgrades proven in regulated environments
Multi‑Region HA
Validated through live DR drills
API‑First Flows
Enabling modern onboarding and risk‑aware MFA
99.999% Availability
Targets under Managed IAM operations
Performance Validation with Teams
We co‑run load, stress, and soak testing with your performance engineers to confirm throughput and reliability on your infrastructure
