How to create keycloak with operator and external database - kubernetes

Question

I follow this but it is not working.
I created custom secret:
apiVersion: v1
kind: Secret
metadata:
name: keycloak-db-secret
data:
POSTGRES_DATABASE: ...
POSTGRES_EXTERNAL_ADDRESS: ...
POSTGRES_EXTERNAL_PORT: ...
POSTGRES_HOST: ...
POSTGRES_USERNAME: ...
POSTGRES_PASSWORD: ...
and keycloak with external db:
apiVersion: keycloak.org/v1alpha1
kind: Keycloak
metadata:
labels:
app: keycloak
name: keycloak
spec:
externalDatabase:
enabled: true
instances: 1
but when I check log, keycloak can not connect to db. It is still using default vaule: keycloak-postgresql.keycloak not value defined in my custom secret ? Why it is not using my value from secrets ?
UPDATE
when I check keycloak pod which was created by operator I can see:
env:
- name: DB_VENDOR
value: POSTGRES
- name: DB_SCHEMA
value: public
- name: DB_ADDR
value: keycloak-postgresql.keycloak
- name: DB_PORT
value: '5432'
- name: DB_DATABASE
value: keycloak
- name: DB_USER
valueFrom:
secretKeyRef:
name: keycloak-db-secret
key: POSTGRES_USERNAME
- name: DB_PASSWORD
valueFrom:
secretKeyRef:
name: keycloak-db-secret
key: POSTGRES_PASSWORD
so now I know why I can not connect to db. It use different DB_ADDR. How I can use address: my-app.postgres (db in another namespace).
I dont know why POSTGRES_HOST in secret not working and pod still using default service name

Answer 1

To connect with service in another namespace you can use.
<servicename>.<namespace>.svc.cluster.local
suppose your Postgres deployment and service running in test namespace it will go like
postgres.test.svc.cluster.local
this is what i am using : https://github.com/harsh4870/Keycloack-postgres-kubernetes-deployment/blob/main/keycload-deployment.yaml
i have also attached the Postgres file you can use it however in my case i have setup both in the same namespace keycloak and Postgres so working like charm.

Answer 2

I'm using Azure PostgreSQL for that, and it works correctly. In pod configuration, it also uses keycloak-postgresql.keycloak as DB_ADDR, but this is pointing to my internal service created by operator based on keycloak-db-secret.

Answer 3

keycloak-postgresql.keycloak this is the another service created by Keycloak Operator, which is used to connect to Postgresql's service.
You can check its endpoint.
$ kubectl get endpoints keycloak-postgresql -n keycloak
NAME ENDPOINTS AGE
keycloak-postgresql {postgresql's service ip}:5432 4m31s
However, the reason why it fails is due to the selector of this service:
selector:
app: keycloak
component: database
So if your DB Pod has the different Label, the selector will not work.
I reported this issue to the community. If they reply me, I will try to fix this bug by submitting a patch.

Answer 4

I was having this same issue, and then after looking at #JiyeYu 's answer, I have searched the project's issue backlog, and I've found some related issues that are still open (at the moment of this reply).
Particularly this one: https://issues.redhat.com/browse/KEYCLOAK-18602
After reading this, and its comments, I did the following:
Don't use IPs on POSTGRES_EXTERNAL_ADDRESS. If your PostGres is hosted within K8s via a StatefulSet, use the full <servicename>.<namespace>.svc.cluster.local (like #Harsh Manvar 's answer)
Remove the POSTGRES_HOST setting from the secret (don't just set it to the default, delete it). Apparently, it is not only being ignored, but also breaking the keycloak pod initialization process somehow.
After I applied these changes the issue was solved for me.

Answer 5

I also had similar problem, it turned out since I was using SSLMODE: "verify-full", keycloak expected correct hostname of my external db.
Since somehow Keycloak translates internally the real external db address into "keycloak-postgresql.keycloak", it expected something like "keycloak-postgresql.my-keycloak-namespace"
The log went something like this:
SEVERE [org.postgresql.ssl.PGjdbcHostnameVerifier] (ServerService Thread Pool -- 57) Server name validation failed: certificate for host keycloak-postgresql.my-keycloak-namespace dNSName entries subjectAltName, but none of them match. Assuming server name validation failed
After I added the host keycloak-postgresql.my-keycloak-namespace on the db certificate, it worked like advertised.