[keycloak-dev] Branches for the quickstarts

[Stan Silvert]

On 5/18/2017 2:59 PM, Stan Silvert wrote:
> What we really need for the quickstarts is something Bill has been 
> talking about for a long time.
>
> It's a bundle of Keycloak and examples that just boots up and works.  
> Otherwise, the quickstarts are way too hard to get running.  Nobody 
> wants to spend 2 or 3 hours on a "quickstart". That's what I had to do 
> recently and I already know what's going on.  I hate to think about 
> what someone new to Keycloak needs to go through just to see an example.
>
> This doesn't have to mean that everything runs in the same WildFly 
> instance like the old demo dist.  The problem with that was that it 
> didn't show Keycloak set up as a stand-alone server.
>
> What you need is a single bundle that lets you run Keycloak standalone 
> and a standalone app server.  I see a couple of ways to do it:
> 1) Use domain mode where you get a domain controller, Keycloak 
> instance, and app server instance all in the same JVM.
> 2) Use two separate server configs and run in two JVM's.
>
> I think #2 is the best.  The Keycloak instance runs on port 8180 and 
> the app server runs on 8080.  You only need one download of 
> WildFly/Keycloak, but you package it with two configs.  So you have:
> /bin
> /modules
> /domain (don't actually need this one)
> /standalone
> /keycloak
>
> To run Keycloak (preloaded with quickstart realm):
> > standalone --server-config=keycloak 
> -Djboss.socket.binding.port-offset=100
Oops.  That's wrong.  It should look like this:
 > standalone -Djboss.server.base.dir=keycloak 
-Djboss.socket.binding.port-offset=100
>
> To run app server (preloaded with quickstart apps):
> > standalone
>
>
>
> On 5/18/2017 1:59 PM, Bruno Oliveira wrote:
>> Hmmm I'm not sure about that. That would be the completely opposite 
>> of what
>> we already do to any repository today. If people want the stable 
>> release of
>> the quickstarts they could just get 3.x or download the zip files, nope?
>>
>> On Thu, May 18, 2017 at 2:15 PM Sebastien Blanc <sblanc at redhat.com> 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> We should also consider the opposite : master is the stable released
>>> version and a branch for development . I already had confused people
>>> downloading KC server and cloning the QuickStarts and expecting it 
>>> to work.
>>> But tbh I do not have a string opinion on that.
>>> Le jeu. 18 mai 2017 à 18:57, Bruno Oliveira <bruno at abstractj.org> a
>>> écrit :
>>>
>>>> While working today on the fix of some quickstarts. I'm
>>>> considering to create a separated branch only for stable versions 
>>>> of the
>>>> quickstarts.
>>>>
>>>> In this way 'master' would be used only for development based on the
>>>> latest bits from Keycloak repo. And 3.1.x, to the latest stable
>>>> release on Maven central.
>>>>
>>>> Does it make any sense?
>>>>
>>>> -- 
>>>>
>>>> abstractj
>>>>
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