[keycloak-dev] Reloading KeyCloak on the fly

[Stian Thorgersen]

For the record themes should not be redeployed live for production either
as disabling the caching of themes will impact performance significantly.

On 21 June 2016 at 20:52, Mitya <mitya at cargosoft.ru> wrote:

> Hi Marek,
>
> What I'm looking for is the way to reload KeyCloak modules (providers) on
> the fly, hopefully without killing admin session (since not only I have to
> restart KeyCloak, but also to relogin each time). I'm afraid KeycloakServer
> only sees changes to custom themes, not modules. Or am I missing something?
>
> Mitya
>
>
> Using KeycloakServer for development. It's using embedded undertow under
> the hood. Server restarted usually in few seconds and it sees the latest
> changes in your IDE if you run it directly from the IDE. See
> https://github.com/keycloak/keycloak/blob/master/misc/Testsuite.md#keycloak-server
>
> Marek
>
> On 17/06/16 16:41, Mitya wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm developing a KeyCloak extension which is packaged as two JBoss modules:
> - the extension proper (custom authenticator + custom realm resource +
> custom admin theme);
> - modified org.keycloak.keycloak-model-jpa (since Entity SPI is not yet
> available).
>
> Each time I make changes, I have to go through a roundabout of stopping
> KeyCloak, deploying modules and starting KeyCloak again. This can happen as
> many as several dozen times a day; as soon as I roll a CI infrastructure,
> the build server will have to do the same. Needless to say, the process is
> pretty time-consuming; additionally, I'll have to grant permissions to the
> build server to restart a system service (KeyCloak is deployed as systemd
> unit). I've tried the following in jboss-cli:
>
> [disconnected /] connect
> [standalone at localhost:9990 /] module remove --name=foo.bar.main
> [standalone at localhost:9990 /] module add --name=foo.bar.main
> --resources=... --dependencies=...
> [standalone at localhost:9990 /] reload
>
> This doesn't help, despite WildFly reports to have redeployed and
> restarted KeyCloak. The updated modules are simply not picked up.
>
> Am I missing something? KeyCloak developers, what would you recommend to
> speed-up the workflow?
>
> Cheers,
> Mitya
>
>
>
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