Keycloak at KubeCon EU 2025

Keycloak hosted a project pavilion stand during Wednesday, Thursday and Friday afternoon slots. Attending the booth were Keycloak contributors Takashi Norimatsu and Yoshiyuki Tabata from Hitachi, alongside Martin Bartos and Ryan Emerson from Red Hat.

During these sessions, we had the opportunity to connect with both existing and prospective Keycloak users to talk all things related to Identity and Access Management. Keycloak stickers were as popular as ever, with both the CNCF sticker wall and our own stash completely emptied! It was fantastic to hear firsthand feedback - what’s working well and where there’s room for improvement. Insights like these are invaluable as we continue to grow the project and shape the future roadmap. If you weren’t able to stop by the pavilion, we’d still love to hear from you, please feel free to share your thoughts via the online feedback form.

Takashi Norimatsu and Ryan Emerson presented a talk titled “Evolving OpenID Connect and Observability in Keycloak”. Watch the recording to hear about how OpenID Connect and observability have evolved over the past year in the Keycloak project. A video of the talk is linked below.

Thank you to all who attended and asked questions, there were good follow-up conversations that continued well after our time was up.

Are you a Keycloak user who is deploying in production or just considering starting with Keycloak? We would love to hear more from you about your success stories, what is crucial to your deployments and what can be done better. Please fill out the online Keycloak Survey so we can better understand your use cases.

Your story maybe a candidate for a CNCF Case Study. If you would like to share your success story with our community, answer yes to the “Would you be interested to share your story with our broader community?” and we will be in touch shortly.

The two events KeycloakCon Japan and KubeCon Japan will happen in Tokyo on June 13 and June 16-17 2025, respectively.

KeycloakCon 2025 Japan is a half-day meetup on June 13 where the community of Keycloak gathers. It provides opportunities for technical lectures, growth, and networking with talks related Identity and Access Management (IAM) and Single Sign On (SSO). The call for papers and the registration for KeycloakCon 2025 Japan is now open! Submit your talks to the first-ever KeycloakCon in Japan.

KubeCon 2025 Japan will be held on June 16-17, where Marek Posolda and Takashi Norimatsu will be presenting the talk: Add Single-sign-on To Your Applications With Keycloak and Learn About Its Latest Features.

We hope to see you there and hear your latest Keycloak stories!