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Operator Guide
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Chapter 1. Red Hat build of Keycloak Operator installation 링크 복사링크가 클립보드에 복사되었습니다!
How to install the Operator on OpenShift.
Use this procedure to install the Red Hat build of Keycloak Operator in an OpenShift cluster.
- Open the OpenShift Container Platform web console.
- In the left column, click Home, Operators, OperatorHub.
- Search for "Keycloak" on the search input box.
- Select the Operator from the list of results.
- Follow the instructions on the screen.
For general instructions on installing Operators by using either the CLI or web console, see Installing Operators in your namespace. In the default Catalog, the Operator is named rhbk-operator
. Make sure to use the channel corresponding with your desired Red Hat build of Keycloak version.
1.1. Configuring Manual Approval for OLM Upgrades 링크 복사링크가 클립보드에 복사되었습니다!
Important: Automatic OLM Upgrades
By default, OLM automatically updates the Red Hat build of Keycloak Operator when a new version is released. This can cause several significant issues:
- When using the default Red Hat build of Keycloak image, the Operator uses a matching image of the corresponding Red Hat build of Keycloak version, resulting in unintended Red Hat build of Keycloak upgrades when the Operator is upgraded
- Even when using custom images, major Operator upgrades can introduce significant compatibility issues with your existing Keycloak CR configuration, potentially requiring manual intervention
- New fields in Keycloak CR or behavioral changes could impact existing deployments
- No option to downgrade to the previous Red Hat build of Keycloak version due to changes related to database migration
Recommendation:
We strongly recommend using manual approval mode for the Red Hat build of Keycloak Operator. This ensures you can:
- Review release notes and follow migration changes before approving upgrades
- Schedule maintenance windows for upgrades
- Test upgrades in a non-production environment first
- Back up the database to allow downgrading to the previous Red Hat build of Keycloak in case of issues
To prevent automatic upgrades by OLM, set the approval strategy to Manual
when installing the Operator:
1.1.1. Using the OpenShift web console 링크 복사링크가 클립보드에 복사되었습니다!
When installing the Operator, select Manual
approval in the update approval strategy section:
1.1.2. Using the CLI 링크 복사링크가 클립보드에 복사되었습니다!
For command-line installation, create a Subscription with installPlanApproval: Manual
:
After installation, any upgrade will require manual approval through the OLM interface or via the CLI.
1.2. Installing Multiple Operators 링크 복사링크가 클립보드에 복사되었습니다!
It is not fully supported for the operator to watch multiple or all namespaces. To watch multiple namespaces, you install multiple operators.
In this situation, consider the following:
- All Operators share the Custom Resource Definitions (CRDs) as they are installed cluster wide.
- CRD revisions from newer Operator versions will not introduce breaking changes except for the eventual removal of fields that have been deprecated for some time. Thus newer CRDs are generally backward compatible.
- The last installed CRDs become the ones that are used. This rule also applies to OLM installations; the last installed Operator version also installs and overrides the CRDs if they already exist in the cluster.
- Older CRDs may not be forward compatible with new fields used by newer operators. When using OLM it will check if your custom resources are compatible with the CRDs being installed, so the usage of new fields can prevent the simultaneous installation of older operator versions.
- Fields introduced by newer CRDs are not supported by older Operators. Older Operators fail to handle CRs that use such new fields with a deserialization error for an unrecognized field.
Therefore, in a multiple Operator installation scenario, the recommended approach is to keep versions aligned as closely as possible to minimize the potential problems with different versions.
Chapter 2. Basic Red Hat build of Keycloak deployment 링크 복사링크가 클립보드에 복사되었습니다!
Install Red Hat build of Keycloak using the Operator.
2.1. Performing a basic Red Hat build of Keycloak deployment 링크 복사링크가 클립보드에 복사되었습니다!
This chapter describes how to perform a basic Red Hat build of Keycloak Deployment on OpenShift using the Operator.
2.1.1. Preparing for deployment 링크 복사링크가 클립보드에 복사되었습니다!
Once the Red Hat build of Keycloak Operator is installed and running in the cluster namespace, you can set up the other deployment prerequisites.
- Database
- Hostname
- TLS Certificate and associated keys
2.1.1.1. Database 링크 복사링크가 클립보드에 복사되었습니다!
A database should be available and accessible from the cluster namespace where Red Hat build of Keycloak is installed. For a list of supported databases, see Configuring the database. The Red Hat build of Keycloak Operator does not manage the database and you need to provision it yourself. Consider verifying your cloud provider offering or using a database operator.
For development purposes, you can use an ephemeral PostgreSQL pod installation. To provision it, follow the approach below:
Create YAML file example-postgres.yaml
:
Apply the changes:
oc apply -f example-postgres.yaml
oc apply -f example-postgres.yaml
2.1.1.2. Hostname 링크 복사링크가 클립보드에 복사되었습니다!
For a production ready installation, you need a hostname that can be used to contact Red Hat build of Keycloak. See Configuring the hostname (v2) for the available configurations.
For development purposes, this chapter will use test.keycloak.org
.
When running on OpenShift, with ingress enabled, and with the spec.ingress.classname set to openshift-default, you may leave the spec.hostname.hostname unpopulated in the Keycloak CR. The operator will assign a default hostname to the stored version of the CR similar to what would be created by an OpenShift Route without an explicit host - that is ingress-namespace.appsDomain If the appsDomain changes, or should you need a different hostname for any reason, then update the Keycloak CR.
If you set the hostname-admin
, or the deprecated hostname-admin-url
, even if you enable ingress, no ingress will be created specifically for admin access. Admin access via a separate hostname is generally expected to have access restrictions, which are not currently expressible via the Keycloak CR. Also the default ingress does not prevent accessing admin endpoints, so you may not want to enable ingress handling via the Keycloak CR at all when you have a separate hostname for admin endpoints.
2.1.1.3. TLS Certificate and key 링크 복사링크가 클립보드에 복사되었습니다!
See your Certification Authority to obtain the certificate and the key.
For development purposes, you can enter this command to obtain a self-signed certificate:
openssl req -subj '/CN=test.keycloak.org/O=Test Keycloak./C=US' -newkey rsa:2048 -nodes -keyout key.pem -x509 -days 365 -out certificate.pem
openssl req -subj '/CN=test.keycloak.org/O=Test Keycloak./C=US' -newkey rsa:2048 -nodes -keyout key.pem -x509 -days 365 -out certificate.pem
You should install it in the cluster namespace as a Secret by entering this command:
oc create secret tls example-tls-secret --cert certificate.pem --key key.pem
oc create secret tls example-tls-secret --cert certificate.pem --key key.pem
2.1.2. Deploying Red Hat build of Keycloak 링크 복사링크가 클립보드에 복사되었습니다!
To deploy Red Hat build of Keycloak, you create a Custom Resource (CR) based on the Keycloak Custom Resource Definition (CRD).
Consider storing the Database credentials in a separate Secret. Enter the following commands:
oc create secret generic keycloak-db-secret \ --from-literal=username=[your_database_username] \ --from-literal=password=[your_database_password]
oc create secret generic keycloak-db-secret \
--from-literal=username=[your_database_username] \
--from-literal=password=[your_database_password]
You can customize several fields using the Keycloak CRD. For a basic deployment, you can stick to the following approach:
Create YAML file example-kc.yaml
:
Apply the changes:
oc apply -f example-kc.yaml
oc apply -f example-kc.yaml
To check that the Red Hat build of Keycloak instance has been provisioned in the cluster, check the status of the created CR by entering the following command:
oc get keycloaks/example-kc -o go-template='{{range .status.conditions}}CONDITION: {{.type}}{{"\n"}} STATUS: {{.status}}{{"\n"}} MESSAGE: {{.message}}{{"\n"}}{{end}}'
oc get keycloaks/example-kc -o go-template='{{range .status.conditions}}CONDITION: {{.type}}{{"\n"}} STATUS: {{.status}}{{"\n"}} MESSAGE: {{.message}}{{"\n"}}{{end}}'
When the deployment is ready, look for output similar to the following:
2.1.3. Accessing the Red Hat build of Keycloak deployment 링크 복사링크가 클립보드에 복사되었습니다!
The Red Hat build of Keycloak deployment can be exposed through a basic Ingress accessible through the provided hostname.
On installations with multiple default IngressClass instances or when running on OpenShift 4.12+ you should provide an ingressClassName by setting ingress
spec with className
property to the desired class name:
Edit YAML file example-kc.yaml
:
If the default ingress does not fit your use case, disable it by setting ingress
spec with enabled
property to false
value:
Edit YAML file example-kc.yaml
:
Apply the changes:
oc apply -f example-kc.yaml
oc apply -f example-kc.yaml
You can then provide an alternative ingress resource pointing to the service <keycloak-cr-name>-service
. For example, on OpenShift you are not allowed to use wildcard certificates on passthrough Routes with HTTP/2 enabled. A Keycloak CR on OpenShift with TLS enabled using a wildcard certificate with the default IngressClass creates such a Route. In this case, you must disable the built-in ingress with .spec.ingress.enabled: false
. Access may then be provided by creating a reencrypt Route instead:
$ oc create route reencrypt --service=<keycloak-cr-name>-service --cert=<configured-certificate> --key=<certificate-key> --dest-ca-cert=<ca-certificate> --ca-cert=<ca-certificate> --hostname=<hostname>
$ oc create route reencrypt --service=<keycloak-cr-name>-service --cert=<configured-certificate> --key=<certificate-key> --dest-ca-cert=<ca-certificate> --ca-cert=<ca-certificate> --hostname=<hostname>
For debugging and development purposes, consider directly connecting to the Red Hat build of Keycloak service using a port forward. For example, enter this command:
oc port-forward service/example-kc-service 8443:8443
oc port-forward service/example-kc-service 8443:8443
2.1.3.1. Configuring the reverse proxy settings matching your Ingress Controller 링크 복사링크가 클립보드에 복사되었습니다!
The Operator supports configuring which of the reverse proxy headers should be accepted by server, which includes Forwarded
and X-Forwarded-*
headers.
If you Ingress implementation sets and overwrites either Forwarded
or X-Forwarded-*
headers, you can reflect that in the Keycloak CR as follows:
If the proxy.headers
field is not specified, the Operator falls back to legacy behaviour by implicitly setting proxy=passthrough
by default. This results in deprecation warnings in the server log. This fallback will be removed in a future release.
When using the proxy.headers
field, make sure your Ingress properly sets and overwrites the Forwarded
or X-Forwarded-*
headers respectively. To set these headers, consult the documentation for your Ingress Controller. Consider configuring it for either reencrypt or edge TLS termination as passthrough TLS doesn’t allow the Ingress to modify the requests headers. Misconfiguration will leave Red Hat build of Keycloak exposed to security vulnerabilities.
For more details refer to the Configuring a reverse proxy guide.
2.1.4. Accessing the Admin Console 링크 복사링크가 클립보드에 복사되었습니다!
When deploying Red Hat build of Keycloak, the operator generates an arbitrary initial admin username
and password
and stores those credentials as a basic-auth Secret object in the same namespace as the CR.
Change the default admin credentials and enable MFA in Red Hat build of Keycloak before going to production.
To fetch the initial admin credentials, you have to read and decode the Secret. The Secret name is derived from the Keycloak CR name plus the fixed suffix -initial-admin
. To get the username and password for the example-kc
CR, enter the following commands:
oc get secret example-kc-initial-admin -o jsonpath='{.data.username}' | base64 --decode oc get secret example-kc-initial-admin -o jsonpath='{.data.password}' | base64 --decode
oc get secret example-kc-initial-admin -o jsonpath='{.data.username}' | base64 --decode
oc get secret example-kc-initial-admin -o jsonpath='{.data.password}' | base64 --decode
You can use those credentials to access the Admin Console or the Admin REST API.
2.1.5. Security Considerations 링크 복사링크가 클립보드에 복사되었습니다!
Anyone with the ability to create or edit Keycloak or KeycloakRealmImport CRs should be a namespace level admin.
Setting the Keycloak CR image requires a high degree of trust as whatever image is running will at least have access to any Secrets used for environment variables.
Similarly the unsupported podTemplate gives the ability to deploy alternative workloads which may be granted the same permissions as the operator itself - which includes the ability to access Secrets in the namespace.
Chapter 3. Automating a realm import 링크 복사링크가 클립보드에 복사되었습니다!
Automate a realm import using the operator.
3.1. Importing a Red Hat build of Keycloak Realm 링크 복사링크가 클립보드에 복사되었습니다!
Using the Red Hat build of Keycloak Operator, you can perform a realm import for the Keycloak Deployment.
- If a Realm with the same name already exists in Red Hat build of Keycloak, it will not be overwritten.
- The Realm Import CR only supports creation of new realms and does not update or delete those. Changes to the realm performed directly on Red Hat build of Keycloak are not synced back in the CR.
3.1.1. Creating a Realm Import Custom Resource 링크 복사링크가 클립보드에 복사되었습니다!
The following is an example of a Realm Import Custom Resource (CR):
This CR should be created in the same namespace as the Keycloak Deployment CR, defined in the field keycloakCRName
. The realm
field accepts a full RealmRepresentation.
The recommended way to obtain a RealmRepresentation
is by leveraging the export functionality Importing and exporting realms.
- Export the Realm to a single file.
- Convert the JSON file to YAML.
-
Copy and paste the obtained YAML file as body for the
realm
key, making sure the indentation is correct.
3.1.2. Applying the Realm Import CR 링크 복사링크가 클립보드에 복사되었습니다!
Use oc
to create the CR in the correct cluster namespace:
Create YAML file example-realm-import.yaml
:
Apply the changes:
oc apply -f example-realm-import.yaml
oc apply -f example-realm-import.yaml
To check the status of the running import, enter the following command:
oc get keycloakrealmimports/my-realm-kc -o go-template='{{range .status.conditions}}CONDITION: {{.type}}{{"\n"}} STATUS: {{.status}}{{"\n"}} MESSAGE: {{.message}}{{"\n"}}{{end}}'
oc get keycloakrealmimports/my-realm-kc -o go-template='{{range .status.conditions}}CONDITION: {{.type}}{{"\n"}} STATUS: {{.status}}{{"\n"}} MESSAGE: {{.message}}{{"\n"}}{{end}}'
When the import has successfully completed, the output will look like the following example:
3.1.3. Placeholders 링크 복사링크가 클립보드에 복사되었습니다!
Imports support placeholders referencing environment variables, see Importing and exporting realms for more. The KeycloakRealmImport
CR allows you to leverage this functionality via the spec.placeholders
stanza, for example:
In the above example placeholder replacement will be enabled and an environment variable with key ENV_KEY
will be created from the Secret SECRET_NAME’s value for key `SECRET_KEY
. Currently only Secrets are supported and they must be in the same namespace as the Keycloak CR.
3.1.4. Security Considerations 링크 복사링크가 클립보드에 복사되었습니다!
Anyone with the ability to create or edit KeycloakRealmImport CRs should be a namespace level admin.
Placeholder replacement gives access to all environment variables even sensitive ones.
Chapter 4. Advanced configuration 링크 복사링크가 클립보드에 복사되었습니다!
Tune advanced aspects of the Keycloak CR.
4.1. Advanced configuration 링크 복사링크가 클립보드에 복사되었습니다!
This chapter describes how to use Custom Resources (CRs) for advanced configuration of your Red Hat build of Keycloak deployment.
4.1.1. Server configuration details 링크 복사링크가 클립보드에 복사되었습니다!
Many server options are exposed as first-class citizen fields in the Keycloak CR. The structure of the CR is based on the configuration structure of Red Hat build of Keycloak. For example, to configure the https-port
of the server, follow a similar pattern in the CR and use the httpsPort
field. The following example is a complex server configuration; however, it illustrates the relationship between server options and the Keycloak CR:
For a list of options, see the Keycloak CRD. For details on configuring options, see All configuration.
4.1.1.1. Additional options 링크 복사링크가 클립보드에 복사되었습니다!
Some expert server options are unavailable as dedicated fields in the Keycloak CR. The following are examples of omitted fields:
- Fields that require deep understanding of the underlying Red Hat build of Keycloak implementation
- Fields that are not relevant to an OpenShift environment
- Fields for provider configuration because they are dynamic based on the used provider implementation
The additionalOptions
field of the Keycloak CR enables Red Hat build of Keycloak to accept any available configuration in the form of key-value pairs. You can use this field to include any option that is omitted in the Keycloak CR. For details on configuring options, see All configuration.
The values can be expressed as plain text strings or Secret object references as shown in this example:
The name format of options defined in this way is identical to the key format of options specified in the configuration file. For details on various configuration formats, see Configuring Red Hat build of Keycloak.
4.1.2. Secret References 링크 복사링크가 클립보드에 복사되었습니다!
Secret References are used by some dedicated options in the Keycloak CR, such as tlsSecret
, or as a value in additionalOptions
.
Similarly ConfigMap References are used by options such as the configMapFile
.
When specifying a Secret or ConfigMap Reference, make sure that a Secret or ConfigMap containing the referenced keys is present in the same namespace as the CR referencing it.
The operator will poll approximately every minute for changes to referenced Secrets or ConfigMaps. When a meaningful change is detected, the Operator performs a rolling restart of the Red Hat build of Keycloak Deployment to pick up the changes.
4.1.3. Unsupported features 링크 복사링크가 클립보드에 복사되었습니다!
The unsupported
field of the CR contains highly experimental configuration options that are not completely tested and are Tech Preview.
4.1.3.1. Pod Template 링크 복사링크가 클립보드에 복사되었습니다!
The Pod Template is a raw API representation that is used for the Deployment Template. This field is a temporary workaround in case no supported field exists at the top level of the CR for your use case.
The Operator merges the fields of the provided template with the values generated by the Operator for the specific Deployment. With this feature, you have access to a high level of customizations. However, no guarantee exists that the Deployment will work as expected.
The following example illustrates injecting labels, annotations, volumes, and volume mounts:
4.1.3.1.1. Probe Timeouts 링크 복사링크가 클립보드에 복사되었습니다!
The unsupported podTemplate may be used to override the default probes.
In particular the default startup probe timeout of 10 minutes may be too short in scenarios where there is a long-running migration.
If your instances encounter this startup failure or if you wish to proactively prevent such a startup failure from occurring, then the startup probe timeout should be increased.
With otherwise default settings, something like the following increases the timeout to 20 minutes:
Note that the usage of a relative HTTP path, or an alternative management port, requires changes to the probe configuration.
4.1.4. Disabling required options 링크 복사링크가 클립보드에 복사되었습니다!
Red Hat build of Keycloak and the Red Hat build of Keycloak Operator provide the best production-ready experience with security in mind. However, during the development phase, you can disable key security features.
Specifically, you can disable the hostname and TLS as shown in the following example:
4.1.5. Resource requirements 링크 복사링크가 클립보드에 복사되었습니다!
The Keycloak CR allows specifying the resources
options for managing compute resources for the Red Hat build of Keycloak container. It provides the ability to request and limit resources independently for the main Keycloak deployment via the Keycloak CR, and for the realm import Job via the Realm Import CR.
When no values are specified, the default requests
memory is set to 1700MiB
, and the limits
memory is set to 2GiB
. These values were chosen based on a deeper analysis of Red Hat build of Keycloak memory management.
If no values are specified in the Realm Import CR, it falls back to the values specified in the Keycloak CR, or to the defaults as defined above.
You can specify your custom values based on your requirements as follows:
Moreover, the Red Hat build of Keycloak container manages the heap size more effectively by providing relative values for the heap size. It is achieved by providing certain JVM options.
For more details, see Running Red Hat build of Keycloak in a container.
4.1.6. Scheduling 링크 복사링크가 클립보드에 복사되었습니다!
You may control several aspects of the server Pod scheduling via the Keycloak CR. The scheduling stanza exposes optional standard Kubernetes affinity, tolerations, topology spread constraints, and the priority class name to fine tune the scheduling and placement of your server Pods.
An example utilizing all scheduling fields:
Please see the kubernetes docs for more on scheduling concepts.
If you do not specify a custom affinity, your Pods will have an affinity for the same zone and an anti-affinity for the same node to improve availability. Scheduling to the same zone if possible helps prevent stretch clusters where cross zone cache cluster traffic may have too high of a latency.
4.1.7. Management Interface 링크 복사링크가 클립보드에 복사되었습니다!
To change the port of the management interface, use the first-class citizen field httpManagement.port
in the Keycloak CR. To change the properties of the management interface, you can do it by providing additionalOptions
field.
You can specify the port
and the additionalOptions
as follows:
If you are using a custom image, the Operator is unaware of any configuration options that might’ve been specified there. For instance, it may cause that the management interface uses the https
schema, but the Operator accesses it via http
when the TLS settings is specified in the custom image. To ensure proper TLS configuration, use the tlsSecret
and truststores
fields in the Keycloak CR so that the Operator can reflect that.
For more details, see Configuring the Management Interface.
4.1.8. Truststores 링크 복사링크가 클립보드에 복사되었습니다!
If you need to provide trusted certificates, the Keycloak CR provides a top level feature for configuring the server’s truststore as discussed in Configuring trusted certificates.
Use the truststores stanza of the Keycloak spec to specify Secrets containing PEM encoded files, or PKCS12 files with extension .p12
, .pfx
, or .pkcs12
, for example:
Where the contents of my-secret could be a PEM file, for example:
When running on a Kubernetes or OpenShift environment well-known locations of trusted certificates are included automatically. This includes /var/run/secrets/kubernetes.io/serviceaccount/ca.crt
and the /var/run/secrets/kubernetes.io/serviceaccount/service-ca.crt
when present.
4.1.9. Admin Bootstrapping 링크 복사링크가 클립보드에 복사되었습니다!
When you create a new instance the Keycloak CR spec.bootstrapAdmin stanza may be used to configure the bootstrap user and/or service account. If you do not specify anything for the spec.bootstrapAdmin, the operator will create a Secret named "metadata.name"-initial-admin with a username temp-admin and a generated password. If you specify a Secret name for the bootstrap admin user, then the Secret will need to contain username
and password
key value pairs. If you specify a Secret name for bootstrap admin service account, then the Secret will need to contain client-id
and client-secret
key value pairs.
If a master realm has already been created for your cluster, then the spec.boostrapAdmin is effectively ignored. If you need to create a recovery admin account, then you’ll need to run the CLI command against a Pod directly.
For more information on how to bootstrap a temporary admin user or service account and recover lost admin access, refer to the Bootstrapping and recovering an admin account guide.
4.1.10. Tracing (OpenTelemetry) 링크 복사링크가 클립보드에 복사되었습니다!
Tracing allows for detailed monitoring of each request’s lifecycle, which helps quickly identify and diagnose issues, leading to more efficient debugging and maintenance.
You can change tracing configuration via Keycloak CR fields as follows:
These fields should reflect 1:1 association with tracing-*
options that contain more information.
The tracing-jdbc-enabled
is not promoted as a first-class citizen as it might not be well managed in the future, so it needs to be set via the additionalOptions
field.
For more details about tracing, see Root cause analysis with tracing.
4.1.11. Network Policies 링크 복사링크가 클립보드에 복사되었습니다!
NetworkPolicies allow you to specify rules for traffic flow within your cluster, and also between Pods and the outside world. Your cluster must use a network plugin that supports NetworkPolicy enforcement to restrict the network traffic.
The operator automatically creates a NetworkPolicy to deny access to the clustering port of your Red Hat build of Keycloak Pods. The HTTP(S) endpoint is open to traffic from any namespace and the outside world.
To disable the NetworkPolicy, set spec.networkPolicy.enabled
in your Keycloak CR, as shown in the example below.
Keycloak CR with Network Policies enabled
By default, traffic to the HTTP endpoints and the management endpoint is allowed from all sources. The Keycloak CR can be extended to include a list of rules for each of the endpoints exposed by Red Hat build of Keycloak. These rules specify from where (the source) the traffic is allowed, and it is possible to communicate with the Red Hat build of Keycloak Pods.
Extended Network Policy configuration
- 1
- It defines the rules for HTTP endpoint (port 8080 by default). Due to security reasons, the HTTP endpoint is disabled by default.
- 2
- It defines the access rules for HTTPS endpoint (port 8443 by default.
- 3
- It defines the access rules for management endpoint (port 9000 by default). The management endpoint is used by the Kubernetes Probes and to expose the Red Hat build of Keycloak metrics.
The rule syntax is the same as the one used by the Kubernetes Network Policy. It makes it easy to migrate your existing rules into your Keycloak CP. For more information, check the rule syntax.
4.1.11.1. Example with OpenShift 링크 복사링크가 클립보드에 복사되었습니다!
For a concrete example, let’s imagine we have a Red Hat build of Keycloak deployment running in a OpenShift cluster. Users have to access Red Hat build of Keycloak to login, so Red Hat build of Keycloak must be accessible from the Internet.
To make this example more interesting, let’s assume the Red Hat build of Keycloak is monitored too. The monitoring is enabled as described in this OpenShift documentation page: enabling Monitoring for user defined projects.
Based on those requirements, the Keycloak CR would be like this (most parts are omitted, like DB connection and security):
Keycloak CR
- 1
- Enables Ingress for outside access.
- 2
- The default OpenShift Ingress class pods are running in
openshift-ingress
namespace. We allow traffic from these pods to access the Red Hat build of Keycloak HTTPS endpoint. The traffic from outside the OpenShift cluster goes through these pods. - 3
- Prometheus pods are running in
openshift-user-workload-monitoring
. They need to access Red Hat build of Keycloak to scrape the available metrics.
Check the Kubernetes Network Policies documentation for more information about NetworkPolicies.
Chapter 5. Avoiding downtime with rolling updates 링크 복사링크가 클립보드에 복사되었습니다!
Avoid downtime when changing themes, providers, or configurations in optimized images.
By default, the Red Hat build of Keycloak Operator will perform rolling updates on configuration changes without downtime, and recreate updates with downtime when the image name or tag changes.
This chapter describes how to minimize downtimes by configuring the Red Hat build of Keycloak Operator to perform rolling updates of Red Hat build of Keycloak automatically where possible, and how to override automatic detection for rolling updates.
Use it, for example, to avoid downtimes when rolling out an update to a theme, provider or build time configuration in a custom or optimized image.
5.1. Supported Update Strategies 링크 복사링크가 클립보드에 복사되었습니다!
The Operator supports the following update strategies:
- Rolling Updates
- Update the StatefulSet in a rolling fashion, avoiding a downtime when at least two replicas are running.
- Recreate Updates
- Scale down the StatefulSet before applying updates, causing temporary downtime.
5.2. Configuring the Update Strategy 링크 복사링크가 클립보드에 복사되었습니다!
Specify the update strategy within the spec
section of the Keycloak CR YAML definition:
Value | Downtime? | Description |
---|---|---|
| On image name or tag change | Mimics Red Hat build of Keycloak 26.1 or older behavior. When the image field changes, the Operator scales down the StatefulSet before applying the new image. |
| On incompatible changes | The Red Hat build of Keycloak Operator detects if a rolling or recreate update is possible. In the current version, Red Hat build of Keycloak performs a rolling update if the Red Hat build of Keycloak version is the same for the old and the new image. Future versions of Red Hat build of Keycloak will change that behavior and use additional information from the configuration, the image and the version to determine if a rolling update is possible to reduce downtimes. |
|
Only the |
The Red Hat build of Keycloak Operator checks the |
5.2.1. Understanding Auto and Explicit Update Strategies 링크 복사링크가 클립보드에 복사되었습니다!
When using the Auto
update strategy, the Red Hat build of Keycloak Operator automatically starts a Job to assess the feasibility of a rolling update. Read more about the process in the Checking if rolling updates are possible chapter. This process consumes cluster resources for the time of the check and introduces a slight delay before the StatefulSet update begins.
If the Keycloak CR configured a podTemplate
as part of the unsupported
configuration parameters, the Keycloak Operator will do its best to use those settings for the started Job. Still it might miss some settings due to the flexibility of the podTemplate
feature and its unsupported nature.
As a consequence, the Operator might draw the wrong conclusions if a rolling update is possible from changes to the podTemplate
or information pulled in from Secrets, ConfigMaps or Volumes in the podTemplate
.
Therefore, if you are using the unsupported podTemplate
, you may need to use one of the other update strategies.
The Explicit
update strategy delegates the update decision to the user. The revision
field acts as a user-controlled trigger. While the Red Hat build of Keycloak Operator does not interpret the revision
value itself, any change to the Custom Resource (CR) while the revision
remains unchanged will prompt a rolling update.
Exercise caution when using this with automatic Operator upgrades. The Operator Lifecycle Manager (OLM) may upgrade the Red Hat build of Keycloak Operator, and if the Explicit
update strategy is in use, this could lead to unexpected behavior or deployment failures as the Operator would attempt a rolling update when this is actually not supported. If you are using the Explicit
update strategy, thorough testing in a non-production environment is highly recommended before upgrading.
5.2.2. CR Statuses 링크 복사링크가 클립보드에 복사되었습니다!
The Keycloak CR status of RecreateUpdateUsed
indicates the update strategy employed during the last update operation. The lastTransitionTime
field indicates when the last update occurred. Use this information to observe actions and decisions taken by the Operator.
Status | Description |
---|---|
| The initial state. It means no update has taken place. |
| The Operator applied the rolling update strategy in the last update. |
|
The Operator applied the recreate update strategy in the last update. The |
Chapter 6. Using custom Red Hat build of Keycloak images 링크 복사링크가 클립보드에 복사되었습니다!
Customize and optimize the Red Hat build of Keycloak container.
6.1. Red Hat build of Keycloak custom image with the Operator 링크 복사링크가 클립보드에 복사되었습니다!
With the Keycloak Custom Resource (CR), you can specify a custom container image for the Red Hat build of Keycloak server.
To ensure full compatibility of Operator and Operand, make sure that the version of Red Hat build of Keycloak release used in the custom image is aligned with the version of the operator.
6.1.1. Best practice 링크 복사링크가 클립보드에 복사되었습니다!
When using the default Red Hat build of Keycloak image, the server will perform a costly re-augmentation every time a Pod starts. To avoid this delay, you can provide a custom image with the augmentation built-in from the build time of the image.
With a custom image, you can also specify the Keycloak build-time configurations and extensions during the build of the container.
When using the optimized custom image, health-enabled
and metrics-enabled
options need to be explicitly set in the Containerfile.
For instructions on how to build such an image, see Running Red Hat build of Keycloak in a container.
6.1.2. Providing a custom Red Hat build of Keycloak image 링크 복사링크가 클립보드에 복사되었습니다!
To provide a custom image, you define the image
field in the Keycloak CR as shown in this example:
With custom images, every build time option passed either through a dedicated field or the additionalOptions
is ignored.
The Operator is unaware of any configuration options that are specified in a custom image. Use the Keycloak CR for any configuration that requires Operator awareness, namely the TLS and HTTP(S) settings reflected when configuring services and probes.
6.1.3. Non-optimized custom image 링크 복사링크가 클립보드에 복사되었습니다!
While it is considered a best practice to use a pre-augmented image, if you want to use a non-optimized custom image or build time properties with an augmented image that is still possible. You just need set the startOptimized
field to false
as shown in this example:
Keep in mind this will incur the re-augmentation cost on every start.