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A. MarkelovCertified OpenStack Administrator Study Guide Certification Study Companion Serieshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-8804-7_4

4. Identity Management

Andrey Markelov1  
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Stockholm, Sweden
 

Keystone, OpenStack’s identity service, catalogs all its services. It provides the ability to authenticate and manage user accounts, regions, domains, projects, and role information for the cloud environment. If you are familiar with the Microsoft Windows Server environment, you can think of Keystone as the “Active Directory analog” for your OpenStack cloud. Usually, Keystone is the first component to be installed when starting an OpenStack cloud. Keystone supports ...

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