Skip to Content
Mastering OpenStack - Second Edition
book

Mastering OpenStack - Second Edition

by Omar Khedher, Chandan Dutta
April 2017
Intermediate to advanced
470 pages
11h 12m
English
Packt Publishing
Content preview from Mastering OpenStack - Second Edition

The identity provider

The identity provider validates user and group credentials. OpenStack Keystone provides a built-in identity provider that can be used to create and manage user and group credentials.

Keystone can also integrate with external identity providers such as LDAP. The OpenStack Ansible project provides the playbooks to integrate the LDAP service with Keystone as an external identity provider.

Keystone supports various user types to manage access levels to OpenStack services. The user can be one of the following:

  • A service user who is associated with a service running in OpenStack
  • An administrative user who has administrative access to services and resources created
  • An end user who has no extra access rights and is a consumer ...
Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.

Read now

Unlock full access

More than 5,000 organizations count on O’Reilly

AirBnbBlueOriginElectronic ArtsHomeDepotNasdaqRakutenTata Consultancy Services

QuotationMarkO’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.
Julian F.
Head of Cybersecurity
QuotationMarkI wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.
Addison B.
Field Engineer
QuotationMarkI’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.
Amir M.
Data Platform Tech Lead
QuotationMarkI'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.
Mark W.
Embedded Software Engineer

You might also like

Mastering Ceph - Second Edition

Mastering Ceph - Second Edition

Nick Fisk
Learning Ceph - Second Edition

Learning Ceph - Second Edition

Anthony D'Atri, Vaibhav Bhembre, Karan Singh

Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9781786463982