[keycloak-dev] Keycloak installation based on MongoDB

[Bill Burke]

That's great!  I was also thinking of having a read-only file back-end 
too.  Does it make sense to have an Infinispan backend?

On 9/6/2013 5:45 PM, Marek Posolda wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Thomas asked me to investigate possibility of using NoSQL database
> (MongoDB) instead of Picketlink as storage of Keycloak identity data. At
> this moment, I have working MongoDB prototype here
> https://github.com/mposolda/keycloak/tree/nosql . Keycloak already has
> flexible identity model, which easily allows to provide different
> abstraction for storing of identity data, so I just needed to create my
> own implementations of KeycloakSessionFactory and KeycloakSession
> interfaces and model classes. I almost didn't need to touch existing
> code despite some changes in KeycloakApplication class to allow
> switching between Picketlink and MongoDB. Note that Picketlink is still
> used by default if you don't provide system property
> -Dkeycloak.sessionFactory=mongo.
>
> To try it, you just need working installation of MongoDB and then you
> can run Keycloak with:
>
> ./standalone.sh -Dkeycloak.sessionFactory=mongo
> -Dkeycloak.mongodb.host=localhost -Dkeycloak.mongodb.port=27017
> -Dkeycloak.mongodb.databaseName=keycloak
>
> (Last 3 properties can be usually omited as localhost/27017/keycloak are
> default values for host, port and databaseName. MongoDB is installed on
> port 27017 by default and it automatically creates database "keycloak"
> if it doesn't exist).
>
> There is still work needed, but actually almost everything, which works
> for Picketlink works for MongoDB as well. Let me know if you have any
> questions, concerns.
>
> Marek
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