[keycloak-dev] wildfly pkg manager changes everything

Had a long talk with Jason Greene today and one of the things that came up was the Wildfly Package Manager that is being developed. You'll be able to pull in the exact subsystems, modules, you want, even as fine grain as saying "I don't want EJB remoting". You'll be able to update, at will, all or parts of the install. This completely changes patch management for all of us. You'll be able to easily create and extend distros and service packs. Service packs that depend on service packs. A lot of interesting combinations. They are also looking into various ways to organize an image hierarchy so even how we build images for keycloak may change. It is all maven artifact based, which means that a service pack definitions, distributions, images, installations are measured in kilobytes rather than hundreds of megabytes as these definitions point into maven repos. Its not limited to Java either and will be able to really package manage anything...cross platform as its written in Java. This brings a smile to my face as we can ditch this whole monolithic distribution approach we currently have with bare metal and docker/openshift. Keycloak, IMO, has always been more of an integration platform than a black box appliance and this will be a big boon to developers that want to optimize their distribution, memory consumption, image size, etc. -- Bill Burke Red Hat