[keycloak-dev] Preview and optional features

[Stian Thorgersen]

For backwards compatibility we should probably allow setting it globally as
well like we do today, but allow overriding it per-realm at runtime.

On Tue, 12 Nov 2019 at 09:48, Vlasta Ramik <vramik at redhat.com> wrote:

> +1
>
>   I like the idea.
>
> On 11/8/19 7:03 AM, Stian Thorgersen wrote:
> > We currently have a mechanism in place to allow features to be marked as
> > preview, experimental and disabled-by-default.
> >
> > Enabling/disabling these features requires restarting the server and also
> > it is a global option.
> >
> > It may be better to instead have these as options on a realm. This would
> > allow enabling/disabling such features at runtime, and it would be
> possible
> > to enable through the admin console directly.
> >
> > It also has the benefit of allowing certain features only for certain
> > realms. For example you may want to enable impersonation only for a
> > specific realm, not for all realms. Same with a preview feature you may
> > want to enable it in a test realm, not for all realms.
> >
> > Thoughts?
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