Part 12 — How I Run My Entire Digital Life on a Raspberry Pi: Unify and Elevate your Authentication with Keycloak
Imagine transforming our Raspberry Pi into the command center for all our home services, where a single, secure login unlocks everything — from dashboards to smart home controls. With Keycloak, we are not just adding authentication; we’re unifying and elevating our digital life, bringing enterprise-grade identity management right into our living room. Gone are the days of juggling passwords for every app — Keycloak acts as your master key, streamlining user access, enhancing security, and delivering a seamless, single sign-on experience across your self-hosted ecosystem. Whether it’s about our Grafana, Portainer, Home Assistant, or Nextcloud, Keycloak empowers us to manage users and permissions from one intuitive dashboard, taking our Raspberry Pi setup to the next level of convenience and control.
Keycloak
Keycloak is an open-source identity and access management solution from Red Hat that provides a centralized platform for authentication and authorization across your applications and services. It enables Single Sign-On (SSO), allowing users to log in once and seamlessly access multiple web and mobile apps, while offering robust security features like multi-factor authentication, role-based access control, and integration with external identity providers such as LDAP, Active Directory, and popular social platforms. With its user-friendly admin console and support for open standards like OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, and SAML, Keycloak simplifies user management, enhances security, and streamlines access control — making it an ideal choice for both enterprise and home lab environments looking to unify and elevate authentication.
Deploy stack
Let’s create our docker-compose file for the new keycloak stack.