# Introduction to Keycloak

> Understand the identity component that authenticates users and stores service account keys in Self-Hosted Deployment.

Unity Virtual Private Cloud includes an identity provider and broker component based on Keycloak. Keycloak includes these major capabilities:

* Authentication and authorization
* Storage of information about users and service accounts keys

Keycloak is included in the above deployment, but you must perform customer-specific postdeployment and administration tasks.

To sign in to Keycloak, refer to [Access the Keycloak admin console](./keycloak-admin-console.md).