[keycloak-user] update keycloak realm

Following on an old thread ( http://lists.jboss.org/pipermail/keycloak-user/2016-May/006230.html), I want to mention a pragmatic startup strategy I'm currently implementing in a project: To upgrade an existing realm (containing users) with a new realm.json configuration (prepared in dev), we go through these steps: - start a one-off "export instance", that exports realms and their users (one json per realm, and realm users in "chunked files") - once export complete, we kill that "export instance" - prepare files to be imported: realm.json from our dev build, and users json files that were just exported in the first step - start the "real" keycloak with import flag, and mode OVERWRITE_EXISTING: realms are deleted and recreated, then users re-imported Still a few things to improve, such as environmnent-specific values (e.g. redirect URLs), and of course that requires to shut down your instance. Also the whole things is mostly our docker entrypoint, so a bit heavy-handed approcah for docker... Call to the keycloak team: this seems to be working, but is there some kind of flaw that I didn't see yet? Hope this can help someone too. Pierre