[keycloak-dev] Appliance dist and WildFly feature packs

[Stian Thorgersen]

Let me clarify what I'm proposing. I'm not proposing any changes to the contents of the appliance-dist.zip. It'll still contain:

* keycloak
* examples
* ...

Although, maybe we should have a separate server only download (would be more handy for provisioning), but that's another issue.

What I'm proposing is we change how we build the 'keycloak' part. Also, that we have two flavours of it available. One built on the WildFly web-lite (so it would be ~30MB) and another built on the full WildFly (150MB+).

Actually, I think my preference would be to have two downloads:

* Everything zip (not sure appliance-dist is the best name) - this would have Keycloak with full WildFly, would also contain examples and documentations
* Standalone server - this would have a standalone Keycloak server with web-lite WildFly

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bill Burke" <bburke at redhat.com>
> To: keycloak-dev at lists.jboss.org
> Sent: Tuesday, 16 September, 2014 4:17:41 PM
> Subject: Re: [keycloak-dev] Appliance dist and WildFly feature packs
> 
> 
> 
> On 9/16/2014 9:52 AM, Stan Silvert wrote:
> > On 9/16/2014 9:39 AM, Bill Burke wrote:
> >>
> >> On 9/16/2014 5:59 AM, Stian Thorgersen wrote:
> >>> WildFly 9 introduces features packs which seams ideal for us to build
> >>> Keycloak upon.
> >>>
> >>> I'd like to start a "wildfly-9" branch of Keycloak that uses
> >>> feature-packs and WildFly's built in mechanism to create the appliance
> >>> distro. This would replace our current custom appliance-dist. Further
> >>> I'd like us to have two flavours of Keycloak:
> >>>
> >>> * "appliance-lite": minimum Keycloak server only dist. For those that
> >>> want a standalone Keycloak server. Builds on WildFly "web-lite" dist,
> >>> but we need to add Hibernate, RestEasy and Connectors (datasources) as
> >>> well
> >>> * "appliance": full WildFly dist. For those that want to co-locate their
> >>> JavaEE apps with the Keycloak server. Builds on the full WildFly dist.
> >>>
> >> We've discussed this before.
> >>
> >> The downside to a stripped down keycloak distro is the examples can't
> >> run out of the box anymore and users will have to  download a full
> >> Wildfly distro anyways and also configure it to run on different ports.
> >>     They will have to edit example config files to point to the correct
> >> ports.  Basically a lot more work to get things up and running for the
> >> first time.
> >>
> > Hmm.  Perhaps the examples will be packaged as its own feature pack.
> >
> > A feature pack might make it even easier to get up and running. Today
> > you still have to download the appliance, boot the server, import the
> > test realm, and then build and deploy the examples.  I'd like to get rid
> > of those steps.
> >
> > I think a lot of this depends on how good the provisioning tool turns
> > out to be.
> 
> The screencast tutorials require you to manually create the realm and
> manually configure the applications.
> 
> 
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