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9 changes: 9 additions & 0 deletions docs/guides/operator/advanced-configuration.adoc
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Expand Up @@ -404,6 +404,15 @@ When you create a new instance the Keycloak CR spec.bootstrapAdmin stanza may be

If a master realm has already been created for your cluster, then the spec.bootstrapAdmin is effectively ignored. If you need to create a recovery admin account, then you'll need to run the CLI command against a Pod directly.

The following is an example command for recovering a temporary admin user:

[source,bash,subs=+attributes]
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oc exec -it pod/cs-keycloak-0 -- bash
export KC_HTTP_MANAGEMENT_PORT=9001
/opt/keycloak/bin/kc.sh bootstrap-admin user --username $KC_BOOTSTRAP_ADMIN_USERNAME --password:env KC_BOOTSTRAP_ADMIN_PASSWORD
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For more information on how to bootstrap a temporary admin user or service account and recover lost admin access, refer to the <@links.server id="bootstrap-admin-recovery"/> guide.

=== Tracing (OpenTelemetry)
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