diff --git a/roles/keycloak/defaults/main.yml b/roles/keycloak/defaults/main.yml
index 4543f82..88ff001 100644
--- a/roles/keycloak/defaults/main.yml
+++ b/roles/keycloak/defaults/main.yml
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 ### Configuration specific to keycloak
 keycloak_version: 18.0.2
 keycloak_archive: "keycloak-legacy-{{ keycloak_version }}.zip"
-keycloak_download_url: "https://github.com/keycloak/keycloak/releases/download/{{ keycloak_version }}/{{ keycloak_archive }}"  
+keycloak_download_url: "https://github.com/keycloak/keycloak/releases/download/{{ keycloak_version }}/{{ keycloak_archive }}"
 keycloak_download_url_9x: "https://downloads.jboss.org/keycloak/{{ keycloak_version }}/{{ keycloak_archive }}"
 keycloak_installdir: "{{ keycloak_dest }}/keycloak-{{ keycloak_version }}"
 keycloak_offline_install: False
@@ -21,6 +21,8 @@ keycloak_service_group: keycloak
 keycloak_service_pidfile: "/run/keycloak.pid"
 keycloak_service_name: keycloak
 keycloak_service_desc: Keycloak
+keycloak_service_start_delay: 10
+keycloak_service_start_retries: 25
 
 keycloak_configure_firewalld: False
 
diff --git a/roles/keycloak/tasks/start_keycloak.yml b/roles/keycloak/tasks/start_keycloak.yml
index bdf42f9..524df80 100644
--- a/roles/keycloak/tasks/start_keycloak.yml
+++ b/roles/keycloak/tasks/start_keycloak.yml
@@ -11,5 +11,5 @@
     url: "{{ keycloak.health_url }}"
   register: keycloak_status
   until: keycloak_status.status == 200
-  retries: 25
-  delay: 10
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+  retries: "{{ keycloak_service_start_retries }}"
+  delay: "{{ keycloak_service_start_delay }}"