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What is a Keycloak 'Realm', and why might a company use multiple realms?

A realm is an isolated namespace containing its own users, roles, clients, and identity-provider configuration. Companies commonly use separate realms per environment (dev/staging/prod) or per distinct customer/tenant organization, ensuring complete isolation of user bases and configuration between them.

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