# Deploying Keycloak on CockroachDB with Phase Two: A Complete Guide

DevFeed: [Deploying Keycloak on CockroachDB with Phase Two: A Complete Guide](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/deploying-keycloak-on-cockroachdb-with-phase-two-a-complete-guide-23778.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://cockroachlabs.com/blog/deploying-keycloak-on-cockroachdb-with-phase-two>)

Author: Amine El Kouhen, Ph.D.

Published: 2026-01-14T00:00:00Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Cockroach Labs](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/cockroach-labs.md>)

Topics: [CockroachDB](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cockroachdb.md>), [Software as a service](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/saas.md>), [Databases](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/databases.md>), [Authentication](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/authentication.md>), [Authorization](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/authorization.md>), [OpenID connect (OIDC)](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/oidc.md>), [Single sign-on (SSO)](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/sso.md>), [consistency](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/consistency.md>), [Open Source](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/open-source.md>), [backups](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/backups.md>), [patches](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/patches.md>), [Entra ID](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/entra-id.md>)

Tags: [access-control](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/access-control.md>), [authentication](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/authentication.md>), [authorization](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/authorization.md>), [availability](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/availability.md>), [backups](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/backups.md>), [cockroachdb](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cockroachdb.md>), [consistency](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/consistency.md>), [databases](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/databases.md>), [distributed](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/distributed.md>), [guide](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/guide.md>), [high-availability](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/high-availability.md>), [iam](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/iam.md>), [identity-and-access-management](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/identity-and-access-management.md>), [keycloak](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/keycloak.md>), [oidc](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/oidc.md>), [openid-connect](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/openid-connect.md>), [patches](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/patches.md>), [saas](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/saas.md>), [saml](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/saml.md>), [security](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/security.md>)

## AI overview

This guide explains how Phase Two's managed Keycloak platform can be deployed with CockroachDB to support authentication, authorization, enterprise SSO, and multi-tenant SaaS applications. It describes Keycloak's identity-management capabilities and CockroachDB's globally distributed SQL database, transactional consistency, and tenant isolation.

## Source excerpt

Today's SaaS products face twin demands: the digital identity layer must be seamless and enterprise-grade, and the data layer must scale globally while remaining reliably consistent.