Restart Keycloak Cluster

Cloud-IAM Console - Restart Keycloak Cluster

What is the purpose of restarting the Keycloak cluster?

Restarting your Keycloak cluster can be necessary in various situations to ensure stability, apply updates, or recover from issues.

Common reasons to restart Keycloak include:

• Resolving stuck processes or degraded performance
• Recovering from degraded performance or unresponsive services
• Forcing synchronization after changes
• Reinitializing the cluster after modifying a configurations

With Cloud-IAM, you can safely perform a full cluster restart directly from the Cloud-IAM Console without manual server access required.

How to restart Keycloak cluster

To trigger a Keycloak cluster restart via the Cloud-IAM Console:

1. Open Cloud-IAM console
2. Select the Keycloak deployment you want to restart.
3. Navigate to Pilot tab
4. Select Restart
5. Click on Restart Keycloak
6. In the confirmation popup, click Restart Now to start the process

The restart process takes approximately 5–10 minutes to complete.

Cloud-IAM Console - Access restart Keycloak

What to expect

This action performs a rolling update of your Keycloak cluster without downtime. For deployments using Keycloak v25 or later, user sessions will remain active with no loss during the restart.