Pain point · Self-hosting & upgrades · Causes churn
Keycloak clustering on AWS ECS was a prolonged struggle
1 source thread · first seen 2024-02
Summary
An engineer deploying Keycloak at scale for a large organization on AWS ECS had great difficulty getting it to cluster, with DNS and cluster discovery problems.
- Affects
- Enterprise platform engineer on AWS ECS
- Workaround
- Sticky sessions on the load balancer.
Evidence
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“it was unholy war for 1,000 years getting it to cluster properly”