[keycloak-user] Backup strategies for Keycloak + Docker?

[Dmitry Telegin]

Hello Rémy,

I think Keycloak-side export/import makes more sense when migrating between DB vendors, since the dump is in vendor-neutral JSON format.

For backup purposes, doing a DB-side backup should be sufficient (let alone it's normally much faster than its Keycloak-side counterpart).

Cheers,
Dmitry Telegin
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On Sat, 2018-11-03 at 20:15 +0100, Rémy Grünblatt wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm wondering: what are your backup strategies for keycloak?
> I plan to use docker and keycloak, and of course I'll be backuping the data.
> The backup for the database side is ok: just launching psql in the
> container will do it.
> 
> But for the keycloak side: do I need any backup? In there,
> https://www.keycloak.org/docs/2.5/server_admin/topics/export-import.html,
> a method for backuping the « entire database » is mentioned, and I was
> wondering if this would be useful in addition of the database
> (container) backup.
> I thought about modifying the entry point to include this backup (what I
> have done), but saving it to a volume is tricky as it seems keycloak is
> running with 1000/1000 uid/gid (which is the first non-root user on many
> linux distribution…).
> 
> Any hints? How do you do it, in your production?
> 
> 
> Rémy
> 
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