Keycloak Overview

Keycloak is a cutting-edge centralized identity-management solution for user management on the IBM Automatic Data Lineage platform. The main benefits include the range of authentication methods, support for 2FA, token-based authorization for APIs, and a single sign-on experience for all products on the Automatic Data Lineage platform.

Keycloak is compatible with existing identity-management solutions and can integrate with either LDAP or SAML.

Keycloak itself is a separate application that runs as a part of the Automatic Data Lineage platform. Read more about Keycloak at Keycloak.org.

This documentation focuses on the specifics of Automatic Data Lineage implementation. For more details about Keycloak and how to configure/use its individual features, please refer to the Keycloak documentation, which provides detailed descriptions of the respective features as well as how-to guides.

To choose the right version of Keycloak, depending on your version of Automatic Data Lineage, refer to https://www.keycloak.org/documentation-archive.html

A few Keycloak feature highlights are:

• Setting password policies—https://www.keycloak.org/docs/latest/server_admin/index.html#_password-policies

• Password reset/recovery—https://www.keycloak.org/docs/latest/server_admin/index.html#_password-policies

Note: The features may vary by Keycloak version. Refer to the appropriate Keycloak documentation for your version of Automatic Data Lineage.