keycloak-scim/docs/guides/server/importExport.adoc
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title="Importing and Exporting Realms"
summary="An overview about how to import and export realms">
In this guide, you are going to understand the different approaches for importing and exporting realms using JSON files.
== Exporting a Realm to a Directory
To export a realm, you can use the `export` command. Your Keycloak server instance must not be started when invoking this command.
<@kc.export parameters="--help"/>
To export a realm to a directory, you can use the `--dir <dir>` option.
<@kc.export parameters="--dir <dir>"/>
When exporting realms to a directory, the server is going to create separate files for each realm being exported.
=== Configuring how users are exported
You are also able to configure how users are going to be exported by setting the `--users <strategy>` option. The values available for this
option are:
* *different_files*: Users export into different json files, depending on the maximum number of users per file set by `--users-per-file`. This is the default value.
* *skip*: Skips exporting users.
* *realm_file*: Users will be exported to the same file as the realm settings. For a realm named "foo", this would be "foo-realm.json" with realm data and users.
* *same_file*: All users are exported to one explicit file. So you will get two json files for a realm, one with realm data and one with users.
If you are exporting users using the `different_files` strategy, you can set how many users per file you want by setting the `--users-per-file` option. The default value is `50`.
<@kc.export parameters="--dir <dir> --users different_files --users-per-file 100"/>
== Exporting a Realm to a File
To export a realm to a file, you can use the `--file <file>` option.
<@kc.export parameters="--file <file>"/>
When exporting realms to a file, the server is going to use the same file to store the configuration for all the realms being exported.
== Exporting a specific realm
If you do not specify a specific realm to export, all realms are exported. To export a single realm, you can use the `--realm` option as follows:
<@kc.export parameters="[--dir|--file] <path> --realm my-realm"/>
== Importing a Realm from a Directory
To import a realm, you can use the `import` command. Your Keycloak server instance must not be started when invoking this command.
<@kc.import parameters="--help"/>
After exporting a realm to a directory, you can use the `--dir <dir>` option to import the realm back to the server as follows:
<@kc.import parameters="--dir <dir>"/>
When importing realms using the `import` command, you are able to set if existing realms should be skipped, or if they should be overridden with the new configuration. For that,
you can set the `--override` option as follows:
<@kc.import parameters="--dir <dir> --override false"/>
By default, the `--override` option is set to `true` so that realms are always overridden with the new configuration.
== Importing a Realm from a File
To import a realm previously exported in a single file, you can use the `--file <file>` option as follows:
<@kc.import parameters="--file <file>"/>
== Importing a Realm during Startup
You are also able to import realms when the server is starting by using the `--import-realm` option.
<@kc.start parameters="--import-realm"/>
When you set the `--import-realm` option, the server is going to try to import any realm configuration file from the `data/import` directory. Only regular files using the `.json` extension are read from this directory, sub-directories are ignored.
NOTE: For the https://quay.io/keycloak/keycloak[published containers], the import directory is `/opt/keycloak/data/import`
If a realm already exists in the server, the import operation is skipped. The main reason behind this behavior is to avoid re-creating
realms and potentially loose state between server restarts.
To re-create realms you should explicitly run the `import` command prior to starting the server.
Importing the `master` realm is not supported because as it is a very sensitive operation.
=== Using Environment Variables within the Realm Configuration Files
When importing a realm at startup, you are able to use placeholders to resolve values from environment variables for any realm configuration.
.Realm configuration using placeholders
[source, bash]
----
{
"realm": "${r"${MY_REALM_NAME}"}",
"enabled": true,
...
}
----
In the example above, the value set to the `MY_REALM_NAME` environment variable is going to be used to set the `realm` property.
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