# Survey on Keycloak Realm Configuration Management Tools

DevFeed: [Survey on Keycloak Realm Configuration Management Tools](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/survey-on-keycloak-realm-configuration-management-tools-31649.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.keycloak.org/2024/06/realm-config-manamagemtn-tools-survey>)

Author: Thomas Darimont

Published: 2024-06-25T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Keycloak Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/keycloak-blog.md>)

Topics: [configuration-management](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/configuration-management.md>), [Keycloak](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/keycloak.md>), [configuration](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/configuration.md>), [DevOps](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/devops.md>), [Tool](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/tool.md>), [GitHub](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/github.md>)

Tags: [configuration-management](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/configuration-management.md>), [devops](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/devops.md>), [github](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/github.md>), [idm](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/idm.md>), [kerberos](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/kerberos.md>), [keycloak](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/keycloak.md>), [ldap](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ldap.md>), [management](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/management.md>), [openid-connect](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/openid-connect.md>), [saml](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/saml.md>), [sso](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/sso.md>), [survey](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/survey.md>), [tools](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/tools.md>)

## AI overview

Keycloak asks its community to complete a survey about tools for managing Realm configurations. The survey covers configuration-as-code options including Keycloak Admin CLI, Keycloak-Config-CLI, Terraform Provider for Keycloak, Ansible, Pulumi, Crossplane, JSON import/export, the Keycloak Operator, custom resources, and manually managed configurations.

## Source excerpt

Numerous options exist for managing Keycloak Realm configurations within the Keycloak ecosystem. We know that configuration as code is an essential topic for DevOps and that the Keycloak ecosystem needs an excellent solution to make this possible. As the Keycloak team, we want to understand better what works best for the community and how we can improve the support for Realm configuration Management tools. So that we in the Keycloak community have a representative picture of the configuration options used, we would also like you to participate in the following brief, anonymous survey. The options that exist on our radar are as follows: Keycloak Admin CLI kcadm.sh Keycloak-Config-CLI Terraform Provider for Keycloak Keycloak Ansible Pulumi Keycloak Provider Crossplane Keycloak Provider Keycloak JSON Import / Export Keycloak Operator Realm Import via Custom Resources Hand-made Realm Configuration Management Join the related discussion on GitHub to discuss this in more details with the Keycloak community. And don't forget to fill out the survey! Thank you very much for your support!