Deploying Keycloak In Tomcat

Introduction

Note: You can download the source from github

AS per the Keycloak documentation currently server installation is supported only in Jboss Servers (AS,Wildfly and EAP), However it does not make sense for Organizations to use JBOSS servers only to host Keycloak, Verily they would be running servers other than JBOSS (Tomcat, Jetty, Glassfish etc.)

As per the documentation it must be a easy task for the other servers, let’s explore.

Setup

If you do a build of the keycloak server, and deploy the war to Tomcat

 Issue #1

You will get the following error, which definitely seems to be pom issue

After adding required dependency you may get other ClassNotFoundExceptions, and finally you may add the following dependencies in your pom file

Issue #2

This time you would get the following error

The issue is that ResteasyProviderFactory does not have instance of org.jboss.resteasy.core.Dispatcher andjavax.servlet.ServletContext so that it can inject to KeycloakAppication

To fix the issue here is what I have done.

Make sure the following dependency is also added in the pom file

Issue #3

After fixing the above issues you may get the following issue

The Tomcat Resource has to be configured properly

 For Tomcat external JNDI name starts with java:comp/env

Issue #4

This time you would get the following error

Copy the following jars to you TOMCAT_HOME/lib directory

Create setenv.bat/setenv.sh with the following content and copy it to TOMCAT_HOME/bin

...

CATALINA_OPTS=-Djavax.persistence.provider=org.hibernate.ejb.HibernatePersistence

Things Should be Working like a Charm Now

Two Issues on Keycloak

Issue #1 : No data for Dispather and ServletContext in ResteasyProviderFactory

Issue #2: keycloak-server.json is loaded from incorrect place, i.e, classes/META-INF

 config = Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader().getResource(“META-INF/keycloak-server.json”);

Refer this for TomEE setup