Re: [keycloak-dev] infinispan as a storage mechanism

To be honest the idea of replacing our JPA layer with Infinispan

is interesting if it works/performs. Having/maintaining two in the long

is very unattractive On 5 Mar 2018 11:29 am, "Stian Thorgersen" <sthorger(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote: > > With regards to test execution time we're talking extra maintenance

> to save a few seconds. The base testsuite takes 20 min to run and it only > starts/initializes jpa/liquibase once. In memory h2 is actually a very

> persistence option once running so we're only talking about startup time. > > We'll also easily end up with issues where it worked on a local build

> the mock persistence layer and it fails on jpa in ci. Or the other way > around. Personally I really have no interest in debugging/fixing a mock > persistence layer or adding/extending it for that matter. We have enough > pita here with the undertow in ide vs full dist in Maven/vi already not

> why we would like to make life even more complicated for ourselves. > > I'm also sure there's loads of improvements we could do to the testsuite > to make it run faster both for developers and CI. I would much rather

> to see improvements/effort spent there than in a mock persistence layer

> testing only. > > On 5 Mar 2018 10:56 am, "Boleslaw Dawidowicz" <bdawidow(a)redhat.com&gt;

>> >> It testsuite local time is a main concern I know some companies are >> mocking DB or part of data layer to keep it down to minutes. Having

>> enough” but fast for local and proper setup in CI invoked per PR. Or

>> timely one invoked locally only rarely before wrapping up the work. >> >> >> W dniu śr., 28.02.2018 o 15:20 Bill Burke <bburke(a)redhat.com&gt;

>>> >>> I often have tests that pass within the IDE, or if run singly through >>> maven, but fail on a maven build. So, I'm often running a full build. >>> >>> In my measurements, skipping Liquibase only shaves off 1-2 seconds >>> (which is still a lot). JPA initialization takes 5 seconds. >>> Testsuite slowness is 90% because of Liquibase/JPA. At least on my >>> laptop. Eventually I'll be able to give you numbers when I finish the >>> Infinispan backend, but I'm weeks away from that as I'm only doing it >>> off and on. >>> >>> On Wed, Feb 28, 2018 at 4:23 AM, Marek Posolda <mposolda(a)redhat.com&gt; >>> wrote: >>> > I am also personally not concerned about running full testsuite >>> > through "mvn >>> > clean install", however I agree will be good to improve startup when >>> > you run >>> > single test from IDE. >>> > >>> > We already use in-memory H2 by default on embedded undertow. But

>>> > it >>> > helps if we skip liquibase at all and let Hibernate to create the >>> > schema >>> > when running testsuite with in-mem H2? The problem with Liquibase is, >>> > that >>> > there are more and more changelogs and more and more changes and we >>> > can't >>> > get rid old changelogs. So there are many things like the table is >>> > created >>> > by jpa-changelog-1.0.0, but then immediately dropped by >>> > jpa-changelog-1.5.0 >>> > etc. This is not so big issue for production environments when schema >>> > is >>> > created just once, but sucks during development IMO. >>> > >>> > Question is, how much time is spent on schema initialization and how >>> > much on >>> > other initialization things (EG. importing master realm and "test" >>> > realm >>> > etc)... Maybe to try some startup profiling will help... >>> > >>> > Marek >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > On 27/02/18 21:08, Stian Thorgersen wrote: >>> >> >>> >> It's not going to help with startup time, but perhaps one simple way >>> >> to >>> >> make the testsuite run faster would be configuring the h2 dB as >>> >> in-mem/non-persisted. >>> >> >>> >> On 27 Feb 2018 7:11 pm, "Stian Thorgersen" <sthorger(a)redhat.com&gt; >>> >> wrote: >>> >> >>> >>> >>> >>> On 27 February 2018 at 15:02, Bill Burke <bburke(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>>> This is something I've been doing off and on for awhile. An hour >>> >>>> here >>> >>>> or there. Its a lot of monotonous work. >>> >>>> >>> >>>> Well worth it IMO if our build times drop drastically. 30 min >>> >>>> build >>> >>>> is becoming burdensome. If the console tests get turned on >>> >>>> combined >>> >>>> with all the other tests that are added daily, I can see this >>> >>>> turning >>> >>>> into 60 min by the end of the year. Not to mention when I run a >>> >>>> single test from the IDE it takes like 10 seconds to start. I'm >>> >>>> just >>> >>>> sick and tired of it. >>> >>>> >>> >>> I can only see how it saves time on starting the Keycloak server, >>> >>> not for >>> >>> individual tests. That means you're only saving a few seconds each >>> >>> time >>> >>> the >>> >>> server is started, which is not many times for a full run. You'll >>> >>> probably >>> >>> end up shaving 1 min of the whole 30 min at best. >>> >>> >>> >>> Andy also mentioned that the Hibernate guys are working on >>> >>> performance. >>> >>> There is something weird about the Hibernate startup time in >>> >>> general. So >>> >>> if >>> >>> there's improvements there that 1 min you could shave would become >>> >>> even >>> >>> less. >>> >>> >>> >>> We're also working towards having the full testsuite ran on PRs, >>> >>> which >>> >>> means as a dev you would be better of picking and running only the >>> >>> tests >>> >>> you believe may be affected and let the CI run the complete set of >>> >>> jobs. >>> >>> >>> >>> I'd never bother running the admin console tests locally unless

>>> >>> done >>> >>> some changes to the admin console. I also found that running the >>> >>> tests >>> >>> from >>> >>> the IDE run significantly quicker than through Maven. The

>>> >>> there >>> >>> is down to something else than JPA as that's used in both cases. >>> >>> Personally >>> >>> I very rarely build the full distro or run the tests from Maven at >>> >>> all. I >>> >>> just let Travis do that, while I run tests through the IDE. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>> For migration, if you base your stored objects on Maps, you only >>> >>>> have >>> >>>> to worry about cases where you're modifying objects that are >>> >>>> serialized. These would need to be versioned as per java >>> >>>> serialization. New things >>> >>>> >>> >>> I really don't want us to maintain two different persistence

>>> >>> It's >>> >>> a lot of duplicated effort. Becomes even worse when you start >>> >>> thinking >>> >>> about things like migration, cross-dc, rolling upgrades, etc.. >>> >>> >>> >>> If you are suggesting to completely drop our JPA store altogether >>> >>> and use >>> >>> Infinispan with a cache store instead that could be an interesting >>> >>> option, >>> >>> but I have loads and loads of concerns around that. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>> >>> >>>> On Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 1:53 AM, Stian Thorgersen >>> >>>> <sthorger(a)redhat.com&gt; >>> >>>> wrote: >>> >>>>> >>> >>>>> I'm really not convinced about this. Infinispan still needs to >>> >>>>> persist >>> >>>> >>> >>>> the >>> >>>>> >>> >>>>> data. It still needs to handle migration whenever we change >>> >>>>> things. >>> >>>>> It's >>> >>>>> another layer to get working correctly, etc.. I think we have

>>> >>>> >>> >>>> important >>> >>>>> >>> >>>>> work than to work on another data layer. >>> >>>>> >>> >>>>> On 26 February 2018 at 21:47, Bill Burke <bburke(a)redhat.com&gt; >>> >>>>> wrote: >>> >>>>>> >>> >>>>>> I'm thinking of this mostly for running our testsuite. If

>>> >>>>>> not >>> >>>>>> developing on DB, much nicer if your test startup times is >>> >>>>>> milliseconds rather than 5-10 secs. >>> >>>>>> >>> >>>>>> For production, I'm thinking more of when people need

>>> >>>>>> keycloak instances and are doing a lot of identity federation. >>> >>>>>> This >>> >>>>>> is really long term thoughts though. >>> >>>>>> >>> >>>>>> On Mon, Feb 26, 2018 at 2:56 PM, Pedro Igor Silva >>> >>>>>> <psilva(a)redhat.com&gt; >>> >>>>>> wrote: >>> >>>>>>> >>> >>>>>>> I think MongoDB will start supporting transactions very soon on >>> >>>>>>> v4 >>> >>>> >>> >>>> .... >>> >>>>>>> >>> >>>>>>> I'm not sure about running both app and database in the same VM >>> >>>> >>> >>>> though. >>> >>>>>>> >>> >>>>>>> For >>> >>>>>>> dev purposes that is fine, but in real world scenarios you >>> >>>>>>> probably >>> >>>> >>> >>>> want >>> >>>>>>> >>> >>>>>>> to >>> >>>>>>> avoid sharing resources (mem, cpu) with your DB. In your case, >>> >>>>>>> people >>> >>>>>>> will >>> >>>>>>> probably need JBoss DataGrid in production. >>> >>>>>>> >>> >>>>>>> On Mon, Feb 26, 2018 at 4:30 PM, Bill Burke <bburke(a)redhat.com&gt; >>> >>>> >>> >>>> wrote: >>> >>>>>>>> >>> >>>>>>>> Other than MongoDB not supporting transactions or even >>> >>>>>>>> sessions? >>> >>>> >>> >>>> And >>> >>>>>>>> >>> >>>>>>>> requiring a DB to be run in a separate VM? >>> >>>>>>>> >>> >>>>>>>> No not really :) >>> >>>>>>>> >>> >>>>>>>> >>> >>>>>>>> >>> >>>>>>>> On Mon, Feb 26, 2018 at 12:54 PM, Pedro Igor Silva < >>> >>>> >>> >>>> psilva(a)redhat.com&gt; >>> >>>>>>>> >>> >>>>>>>> wrote: >>> >>>>>>>>> >>> >>>>>>>>> Isn't this somewhat related with what we used to have with >>> >>>> >>> >>>> MongoDB ? >>> >>>>>>>>> >>> >>>>>>>>> On Mon, Feb 26, 2018 at 2:35 PM, Bill Burke >>> >>>>>>>>> <bburke(a)redhat.com&gt; >>> >>>>>>>>> wrote: >>> >>>>>>>>>> >>> >>>>>>>>>> If we had a built-in, clusterable storage mechanism for >>> >>>>>>>>>> Keycloak >>> >>>>>>>>>> using >>> >>>>>>>>>> Infinispan we would: >>> >>>>>>>>>> * Shorten build times drastically. 30 minutes and growing >>> >>>>>>>>>> for me >>> >>>>>>>>>> for >>> >>>>>>>>>> JPA builds. Liquibase + JPA startup takes 5-7 seconds on my >>> >>>>>>>>>> box. >>> >>>>>>>>>> * Simpler startup. No need to start a DB. >>> >>>>>>>>>> * Reduce memory footprint? I think JPA is responsible for a >>> >>>>>>>>>> lot >>> >>>> >>> >>>> of >>> >>>>>>>>>> >>> >>>>>>>>>> classes loaded. >>> >>>>>>>>>> >>> >>>>>>>>>> I've started some work on this in spare time. I'd say I'd

>>> >>>> >>> >>>> done >>> >>>>>>>>>> >>> >>>>>>>>>> in >>> >>>>>>>>>> like 2 months considering the other work I have in queue. >>> >>>>>>>>>> >>> >>>>>>>>>> Looking at FineGrainAtomicMap as an implementation. Should >>> >>>>>>>>>> make >>> >>>> >>> >>>> DB >>> >>>>>>>>>> >>> >>>>>>>>>> migration simple and replication quicker. >>> >>>>>>>>>> >>> >>>>>>>>>> >>> >>>>>>>>>> -- >>> >>>>>>>>>> Bill Burke >>> >>>>>>>>>> Red Hat >>> >>>>>>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>> >>>>>>>>>> keycloak-dev mailing list >>> >>>>>>>>>> keycloak-dev(a)lists.jboss.org >>> >>>>>>>>>> https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/keycloak-dev >>> >>>>>>>>> >>> >>>>>>>>> >>> >>>>>>>> >>> >>>>>>>> >>> >>>>>>>> -- >>> >>>>>>>> Bill Burke >>> >>>>>>>> Red Hat >>> >>>>>>> >>> >>>>>>> >>> >>>>>> >>> >>>>>> >>> >>>>>> -- >>> >>>>>> Bill Burke >>> >>>>>> Red Hat >>> >>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>> >>>>>> keycloak-dev mailing list >>> >>>>>> keycloak-dev(a)lists.jboss.org >>> >>>>>> https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/keycloak-dev >>> >>>>> >>> >>>>> >>> >>>> >>> >>>> >>> >>>> -- >>> >>>> Bill Burke >>> >>>> Red Hat >>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> >> _______________________________________________ >>> >> keycloak-dev mailing list >>> >> keycloak-dev(a)lists.jboss.org >>> >> https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/keycloak-dev >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Bill Burke >>> Red Hat >>> _______________________________________________ >>> keycloak-dev mailing list >>> keycloak-dev(a)lists.jboss.org >>> https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/keycloak-dev