[keycloak-dev] Appliance dist and WildFly feature packs

[Stian Thorgersen]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Stan Silvert" <ssilvert at redhat.com>
> To: "Stian Thorgersen" <stian at redhat.com>
> Cc: keycloak-dev at lists.jboss.org
> Sent: Tuesday, 16 September, 2014 2:49:46 PM
> Subject: Re: [keycloak-dev] Appliance dist and WildFly feature packs
> 
> On 9/16/2014 8:34 AM, Stian Thorgersen wrote:
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: "Stan Silvert" <ssilvert at redhat.com>
> >> To: keycloak-dev at lists.jboss.org
> >> Sent: Tuesday, 16 September, 2014 2:20:44 PM
> >> Subject: Re: [keycloak-dev] Appliance dist and WildFly feature packs
> >>
> >> On 9/16/2014 5:59 AM, Stian Thorgersen wrote:
> >>> WildFly 9 introduces features packs which seams ideal for us to build
> >>> Keycloak upon.
> >>>
> >>> I'd like to start a "wildfly-9" branch of Keycloak that uses
> >>> feature-packs
> >>> and WildFly's built in mechanism to create the appliance distro. This
> >>> would replace our current custom appliance-dist.
> >> I'm already working on this and I've found out that we're just a little
> >> bit early.  See
> >> http://wildfly-development.1055759.n5.nabble.com/Creating-a-Keycloak-Feature-Pack-td5714921.html
> > Great :)
> >
> > Are you providing this directly in Keycloak, or do you have it somewhere
> > else?
> The plan is to have it all live in the Keycloak project.  But perhaps we
> should talk about whether or not it makes sense as a Keycloak subproject
> or as just a Maven submodule.

I'd say it should be a Maven submodule as then we can use it to build our appliance(s)

> 
> The Keycloak Feature Pack definitely will not live in WildFly. WildFly
> itself is breaking up into more and more subprojects.
> >
> >> We need Stuart to implement a feature to solve issue #2 and I'm working
> >> on issue #3 right now so that we can properly install the auth server in
> >> a domain environment.
> >>> Further I'd like us to have two flavours of Keycloak:
> >>>
> >>> * "appliance-lite": minimum Keycloak server only dist. For those that
> >>> want
> >>> a standalone Keycloak server. Builds on WildFly "web-lite" dist, but we
> >>> need to add Hibernate, RestEasy and Connectors (datasources) as well
> >>> * "appliance": full WildFly dist. For those that want to co-locate their
> >>> JavaEE apps with the Keycloak server. Builds on the full WildFly dist.
> >> We need to think long and hard about this one.  Do we really want two
> >> appliance downloads?
> > I think we'll want to at least have a standalone Keycloak server. However,
> > only having that will make it harder for developers and also for anyone
> > that wants to try our examples.
> What are you thinking of that will be harder if we only have one appliance?

If we only provide a standalone Keycloak server dist (built on web-lite) that would mean that developers would have to either have a separate WildFly running to deploy examples and their own JavaEE apps

> >
> >> The answer might come when the WildFly provisioning tool is finished.
> >> This is a tool that lets you "roll your own" server.  So it's possible
> >> that we rely on that.   One option might be that we let you download
> >> "appliance-lite" and then you use the provisioning tool to add other
> >> things you might want.
> >>> I've already tried to run Keycloak on WildFly 9.0.0.alpha1 web-lite and
> >>> it
> >>> works fine. Only thing I had to do was to include RestEasy and Hibernate
> >>> jars in auth-server.war and configure the database directly in
> >>> keycloak-server.json instead of using a datasource.
> >> Right now it won't run on the web profile.  I've submitted a patch to
> >> WildFly, so that should be fixed in the next release.
> > What doesn't work? It seemed to work fine for me.
> I thought my patch didn't make it into the release.  I was wrong. False
> alarm.
> >
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