diff --git a/kubernetes/aai/components/aai-traversal/resources/config/application-keycloak.properties b/kubernetes/aai/components/aai-traversal/resources/config/application-keycloak.properties
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..dd1956b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/kubernetes/aai/components/aai-traversal/resources/config/application-keycloak.properties
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+spring.autoconfigure.exclude=\
+  org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.jdbc.DataSourceAutoConfiguration,\
+  org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.orm.jpa.HibernateJpaAutoConfiguration
+
+multi.tenancy.enabled={{ .Values.config.keycloak.multiTenancy.enabled }}
+keycloak.auth-server-url=http://{{ .Values.config.keycloak.host }}:{{ .Values.config.keycloak.port }}/auth
+keycloak.realm={{ .Values.config.keycloak.realm }}
+keycloak.resource={{ .Values.config.keycloak.resource }}
+keycloak.public-client=false
+keycloak.principal-attribute=preferred_username
+
+keycloak.ssl-required=external
+keycloak.bearer-only=true
diff --git a/kubernetes/aai/components/aai-traversal/templates/configmap.yaml b/kubernetes/aai/components/aai-traversal/templates/configmap.yaml
index c0bcb3b..8f1bd2d 100644
--- a/kubernetes/aai/components/aai-traversal/templates/configmap.yaml
+++ b/kubernetes/aai/components/aai-traversal/templates/configmap.yaml
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@
 {{ tpl (.Files.Glob "resources/config/janusgraph-cached.properties").AsConfig . | indent 2 }}
 {{ tpl (.Files.Glob "resources/config/aaiconfig.properties").AsConfig . | indent 2 }}
 {{ tpl (.Files.Glob "resources/config/application.properties").AsConfig . | indent 2 }}
+{{ tpl (.Files.Glob "resources/config/application-keycloak.properties").AsConfig . | indent 2 }}
 {{ tpl (.Files.Glob "resources/config/realm.properties").AsConfig . | indent 2 }}
 ---
 apiVersion: v1
diff --git a/kubernetes/aai/components/aai-traversal/templates/deployment.yaml b/kubernetes/aai/components/aai-traversal/templates/deployment.yaml
index 7e54f1d..dc1c010 100644
--- a/kubernetes/aai/components/aai-traversal/templates/deployment.yaml
+++ b/kubernetes/aai/components/aai-traversal/templates/deployment.yaml
@@ -188,6 +188,9 @@
         - mountPath: /opt/app/aai-traversal/resources/application.properties
           name: {{ include "common.fullname" . }}-config
           subPath: application.properties
+        - mountPath: /opt/app/aai-traversal/resources/application-keycloak.properties
+          name: {{ include "common.fullname" . }}-config
+          subPath: application-keycloak.properties
         ports:
         - containerPort: {{ .Values.service.internalPort }}
         - containerPort: {{ .Values.service.internalPort2 }}
diff --git a/kubernetes/aai/components/aai-traversal/values.yaml b/kubernetes/aai/components/aai-traversal/values.yaml
index 38011a0..ad4279a 100644
--- a/kubernetes/aai/components/aai-traversal/values.yaml
+++ b/kubernetes/aai/components/aai-traversal/values.yaml
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@
 
     # Active spring profiles for the resources microservice
     profiles:
-      active: production,dmaap,aaf-auth
+      active: production,dmaap,aaf-auth #,keycloak
 
     # Notification event specific properties
     notification:
@@ -168,6 +168,20 @@
 # application configuration
 config:
 
+  # configure keycloak according to your environment.
+  # don't forget to add keycloak in active profiles above (global.config.profiles)
+  keycloak:
+    host: keycloak.your.domain
+    port: 8180
+    # Specifies a set of users, credentials, roles, and groups
+    realm: aai-traversal
+    # Used by any client application for enabling fine-grained authorization for their protected resources
+    resource: aai-traversal-app
+    # If set to true, additional criteria will be added into traversal query to returns all the vertices that match
+    # the data-owner property with the given role to the user in keycloak
+    multiTenancy:
+      enabled: true
+
   # Specifies timeout information such as application specific and limits
   timeout:
     # If set to true application will timeout for queries taking longer than limit