Podman Quadlet Keycloak - Unable to start container due to parameter in entrypoint

[aitzubi]

Hi,

I am trying to use quadlets to run a Keycloak container. In order to start the keycloak container, you need to override the entrypoint parameter with something similar to this:

--entrypoint /opt/keycloak/bin/kc.sh start

The issue is that I am unable to translate this to systemd. I`ve tried using the Entrypoint option in the Container section in systemd and the PodmanArgs option but no luck. It seems that systemd is unable to recognize the aditional parameter (start).

Some examples:

PodmanArgs=--entrypoint /opt/keycloak/bin/kc.sh start
PodmanArgs=--entrypoint \"/opt/keycloak/bin/kc.sh start\"

EntryPoint=/opt/keycloak/bin/kc.sh start
EntryPoint=\"/opt/keycloak/bin/kc.sh start\"

If I remove the start parameter, the container runs without any issue but the keycloak app does not run.

Can anybody help me with this?

Kind regards

[aitzubi]

Forgot to say that if I run (podman run) the container with that entrypoint (--entrypoint /opt/keycloak/bin/kc.sh start) manually, it works as expected

[ygalblum]

Thanks for bringing this up.
Can you please provide the complete .container file that fails and the manual command the works?
I've tried looking for an example, but the docs I found (for example https://www.keycloak.org/server/containers) do not require overriding the entrypoint.
In addition, have you tried setting Exec instead of Entrypoint?

[jorti]

You need to define both a entrypoint with PodmanArgs and use Exec for the arguments:

PodmanArgs=--entrypoint=/opt/keycloak/bin/kc.sh
Exec=start

[aitzubi]

It works! Thank you guys!