Keycloak Consulting
for Regulated Enterprises
Midships helps regulated enterprises deploy, secure, and operate Red Hat build of Keycloak at the highest levels of availability, compliance, and resilience — while supporting the complex identity requirements of large enterprises
Keycloak. Enterprise‑Ready with Midships.
Midships + Keycloak
Unlock the full potential of open‑source identity platform. Midships’ Keycloak Accelerator adds the reliability, scale, richer authentication and journey design capabilities, and enterprise features regulators expect—while preserving the flexibility and cost benefits of open source.
Midships recommends the Red Hat build of Keycloak, which provides enterprise support, security updates, and lifecycle guarantees
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 makes Red Hat Keycloak 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
05 Enterprise support from Red Hat
Red Hat backed support and lifecycle assurance
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
Elastic autoscaling on Kubernetes (EKS/AKS/GKE/OpenShift)
Performance tuning for thousands of TPS and global workloads
Infinispan/JGroups optimization and session/cache strategies
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
Passwordless login (WebAuthn/passkeys) and device binding
Silent device authentication and digital transaction signing
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:
Passwordless (device binding & passkeys)
OTP generation/verification
Profile creation and recovery flows
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
Git‑friendly realm/client/flow configuration
CI/CD pipelines with audit‑ready promotion and automatic rollback
Secrets/config rotation, encryption, and vault integrations
OOTB vs Midships Accelerator
Features(s)
OOTB Keycloak
Midships Accelerators
Production Ready Docker Images (client controlled)
Prepacked User Journeys (industry standard)
Parameterized Helm/Deployment Configuration
Application of additional Hardening Best Practices
Support for auto-scaling
Multi cluster, region and cloud support
Supports below secrets integrations modes out-of-the-box:
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Kubernetes secrets
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HashiCorp Vault
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Secrets mounted as volumes
Vanila Production ready environment in 2 sprints
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
How We Help You Succeed
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
CIAM TCO CALCULATOR
Migration
Keycloak with Midships
3-Year TCO: $—
5-Year TCO: $—
Includes migration
Traditional IAM Provider
3-Year TCO: $—
5-Year TCO: $—
Savings Summary
You save over 5 years: $—
That’s —% lower CIAM TCO vs traditional providers
Red Hat build of Keycloak (RHBK)
What Red Hat provides
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Enterprise support with CVE remediation
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Published lifecycle and upgrade policy
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Certified platforms, most notably OpenShift, with support on RHEL and Windows
How Midships adds Value
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Enterprise architecture and zero-downtime upgrade patterns
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SRE-led operations for always-on identity workloads
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API-first authentication journeys and reusable authenticators
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Audit-ready operations aligned to regulatory expectations
Platform flexibility
RHBK is fully certified on OpenShift and supported on other Kubernetes platforms such as EKS. Midships designs and operates each deployment according to platform capabilities, compliance needs, and total cost of ownership.
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
Exclusive Insights
Yes. With Midships’ hardening and controls, Keycloak meets stringent security and compliance expectations. We implement encryption, access controls, device trust, and SIEM integrations as standard.
We deliver blue/green and canary releases with pre‑flight rehearsal and automatic rollback, keeping customer journeys live.
Yes. Managed operations include upgrades, patches, monitoring, incident response, SLAs, and DR evidence packs.
Our Extended Authentication Flow API exposes any Keycloak flow to your apps—enabling headless, modular journeys beyond the default UI. Our Authenticator Library accelerates passwordless, OTP, device trust, and recovery.
Yes. The Red Hat build of Keycloak can be integrated with Ping universal services to attain advanced identity features beyond core IAM.
Midships designs and implements these integrations, enabling enterprises to combine Keycloak’s open-source flexibility with advanced identity, risk, and verification services from Ping—without disrupting existing authentication flows or operational stability.