3:42 a.m.
Hi all,
we are currently setting up a production system that uses keycloak as the
Identity Provider. We use mongodb as the database for keycloak (since this
is our main database), but require keycloak to also handle mongodb replica
sets appropriately. Currently, when the primary changes in a mongo replica
set, keycloak stops working, since it only connects to a single instance.
I have a version of keycloak that uses a mongodb:// uri[1] to specify the
mongo connection parameters in the keycloak configuration file. Since
mongodb:// uris are a standard way of obtaining a mongo client, this
naturally supports replica sets. The patch is only a couple of lines and
seems to work. The only issue I have is that the MongoDB update seems to
be broken in master currently. But this is also the case when I build
keycloak without my patch, so I assume this to be an unrelated issue.
The commit is available in my keycloak fork:
https://github.com/kodemaniak/keycloak/commit/6741dffe38c9c8d9fd8ca1e92cb...
Only the setup of the operational attributes is still missing for the
configuration via uri, but it can easily be added.
I would like to get this somehow into an official release, since I think
that supporting replica sets is crucial in order to use keycloak with
mongo in a production setup. Personally I think that specifying mongo
connection parameters via mongodb:// uris is the most convenient way and
it's standardized. So it could even be the only way of specifying the
connection details IMHO.
Since in the contribution section it's encouraged to first discuss such
ideas on this mailing list prior to sending a pull request, I am sending
this mail to receive any feedback.
best
Carsten
[1] http://docs.mongodb.org/manual/reference/connection-string/
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