Hi — I’m deploying Camunda 8.8 using Helm chart 13.0.0. The Identity pod crashes on startup with this error:
2025-10-15 11:00:34.986 ERROR 1 — [ main] o.s.b.SpringApplication : Application run failed
java.lang.NullPointerException: Cannot invoke “String.isBlank()” because the return value of “io.camunda.identity.impl.keycloak.config.record.KeycloakClient.secret()” is null
**at io.camunda.identity.impl.keycloak.initializer.service.ClientInitializationService.validateClientSecret(ClientInitializationService.java:203) \~\[!/:?\]**
**at io.camunda.identity.impl.keycloak.initializer.service.ClientInitializationService.processClient(ClientInitializationService.java:65) \~\[!/:?\]**
**at java.base/java.util.ArrayList.forEach(Unknown Source) \~\[?:?\]**
**at io.camunda.identity.impl.keycloak.initializer.service.ClientInitializationService.process(ClientInitializationService.java:61) \~\[!/:?\]**
**at io.camunda.identity.impl.keycloak.initializer.KeycloakClientInitializer.run(KeycloakClientInitializer.java:34) \~\[!/:?\]**
**at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.lambda$callRunner$4(SpringApplication.java:784) \~\[spring-boot-3.4.10.jar!/:3.4.10\]**
**at org.springframework.util.function.ThrowingConsumer$1.acceptWithException(ThrowingConsumer.java:82) \~\[spring-core-6.2.11.jar!/:6.2.11\]**
**at org.springframework.util.function.ThrowingConsumer.accept(ThrowingConsumer.java:60) \~\[spring-core-6.2.11.jar!/:6.2.11\]**
**at org.springframework.util.function.ThrowingConsumer$1.accept(ThrowingConsumer.java:86) \~\[spring-core-6.2.11.jar!/:6.2.11\]**
**at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.callRunner(SpringApplication.java:796) \~\[spring-boot-3.4.10.jar!/:3.4.10\]**
**at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.callRunner(SpringApplication.java:784) \~\[spring-boot-3.4.10.jar!/:3.4.10\]**
**at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.lambda$callRunners$3(SpringApplication.java:772) \[spring-boot-3.4.10.jar!/:3.4.10\]**
**at java.base/java.util.stream.ForEachOps$ForEachOp$OfRef.accept(Unknown Source) \~\[?:?\]**
**at java.base/java.util.stream.SortedOps$SizedRefSortingSink.end(Unknown Source) \~\[?:?\]**
**at java.base/java.util.stream.AbstractPipeline.copyInto(Unknown Source) \~\[?:?\]**
**at java.base/java.util.stream.AbstractPipeline.wrapAndCopyInto(Unknown Source) \~\[?:?\]**
**at java.base/java.util.stream.ForEachOps$ForEachOp.evaluateSequential(Unknown Source) \~\[?:?\]**
**at java.base/java.util.stream.ForEachOps$ForEachOp$OfRef.evaluateSequential(Unknown Source) \~\[?:?\]**
**at java.base/java.util.stream.AbstractPipeline.evaluate(Unknown Source) \~\[?:?\]
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Identity initializer runs on Spring Boot v3.4.10. Has anyone encountered this before? Any idea what causes it or a quick workaround? Thanks!