The module holds the codebase to run Keycloak on top of Quarkus:

├── container
│   ├── Dockerfile, e.g. used by the Testsuite
│
├── deployment
│   ├── Build-time codebase with all the necessary steps to build and configure the server
│
├── dist
│   ├── Packaging the quarkus distribution
│
├── runtime
│   ├── Runtime codebase with all the runtime code
│
├── server
│   ├── The server itself, only responsible for generating the server artifacts
│
└── tests
    ├── Integration tests for the quarkus distribution

Ensure you have at least JDK 11 installed. Your shell is located at the quarkus submodule. (cd quarkus)

When a build from the project root directory is started, this module is only enabled if your installed JDK is 11 or newer.

To build this module and produce the artifacts to run a server, you first need to build the main codebase once. This step will put required modules of keycloak into your local maven cache in package org.keycloak:

../mvnw -f ../pom.xml clean install -DskipTestsuite -DskipExamples -DskipTests

This build can take some time, usually around two to four minutes depending on your hardware, and even longer depending on the maven packages that need to be downloaded and installed to the cache.

After the main codebase is built, you can build the quarkus distribution, including the zip and tar.gz files, by invoking the following command:

../mvnw clean install -DskipTests

This command produces the distribution artifacts as ZIP and TAR file. The artifacts for the quarkus distribution will be available at the /dist/target subdirectory afterwards.

As an alternative, you can build the distribution artifacts directly without a rebuild of the code by running the following command:

../mvnw -f dist/pom.xml clean install

When you start Keycloak in production mode, the HTTP port is disabled by default, and you need to provide the key material to configure HTTPS, a hostname and other configuration suitable for production.

For development purposes, you can run the server in development mode instead using start-dev:

java -jar server/target/lib/quarkus-run.jar start-dev

This spins up Keycloak using a development database (h2-file) and with insecure HTTP enabled.

Alternatively, you can run the server in development mode from your IDE. For that, run the org.keycloak.quarkus._private.IDELauncher main class in the server directory.

Please make sure to read our Contribution Guidelines before contributing.

To run the server in Quarkus' development mode, invoke the following command:

../mvnw -f server/pom.xml compile quarkus:dev -Dquarkus.args="start-dev"

You will be able to attach your debugger to port 5005.

For debugging the build steps right after start, you can suspend the JVM by running:

../mvnw -f server/pom.xml -Dsuspend=true compile quarkus:dev -Dquarkus.args="start-dev"

When running using quarkus:dev you are able to do live coding whenever you change / add code in the server module, for example when creating a new custom provider.

There are currently limitations when running in development mode that block us to use all capabilities the Quarkus development mode has to offer. For instance, hot-reload of transient dependencies from keycloak (e.g.: keycloak-* dependencies) do not work. Expect more improvements in this area, and feel free to reach out if you want to help, using our discussions or the development mailing list.

Keycloaks Quarkus distribution module uses a new testsuite more integrated into the quarkus platform.

The tests can also be run from an IDE GUI such as Intellij IDEA. There are different kinds of tests:

• Unit tests: Located in the respective module (deployment, runtime)
• Integration tests:
  • @CLITest annotated: These tests have no prerequisites and are whitebox tests, so you can easily debug them.
  • @DistributionTest annotated: These tests need a build of the distribution artifacts first to run. These are blackbox tests, so not as easily debuggable as @CLITest annotated tests. Mostly used for scenarios when a build is involved or build options need to change, as this invocation happens in a different JVM.

The @DistributionTest annotated tests can use different runtimes, e.g. plain JVM or a docker container. Per default, they use the plain JVM mode.

To run them from a container image instead, you need to build the distribution first. Then you can use the flag -Dkc.quarkus.tests.dist=docker. This builds a docker image from the provided distribution archives and runs the @DistributionTest annotated tests for them.

There are some tests annotated @RawDistOnly which prevents them from running in docker. You'll find a short reason in the respective annotation.

The container based tests are using Testcontainers to spin up the container image and can be considered tech preview.

There are also some container based tests to check if Keycloak starts using one of the supported database vendors. They are annotated with @WithDatabase.

These tests are disabled by default. They using Quarkus development mode predefined database containers by default and can be run in the tests subdirectory by using e.g.

../mvnw clean install -Dkc.test.storage.database=true -Dtest=MariaDBStartDatabaseTest

to spin up a MariaDB container and start Keycloak with it.

To use a specific database container image, use the option -Dkc.db.postgresql.container.image to specify the image tag of the postgres image to use or -Dkc.db.mariadb.container.image=<name:tag> for mariadb.

Example:

../mvnw clean install -Dkc.test.storage.database=true -Dtest=PostgreSQLDistTest -Dkc.db.postgresql.container.image=postgres:alpine