February 2018
Intermediate to advanced
300 pages
6h 17m
English
In this chapter, we will tackle the identification service in OpenStack from a different angle. Firstly, we will revisit the key concepts forming the Keystone service. In a second iteration, we will bring under the scope an extended identification setup in OpenStack by adopting the identity federation layout. Since the Icehouse release, the OpenStack community has greatly increased the number of ways in which users can authenticate against the Keystone service. That includes identity federation support, which delegates authentication tasks to a central trusted identifying entity defined as Identity Providers (IdP). At the time of writing, ...
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