Chapter 1. Keystone – OpenStack Identity Service

In this chapter, we will cover:

  • Installing the OpenStack Identity Service
  • Configuring OpenStack Identity for SSL communication
  • Creating tenants in Keystone
  • Configuring roles in Keystone
  • Adding users to Keystone
  • Defining service endpoints
  • Creating the service tenant and service users
  • Configuring OpenStack Identity for LDAP Integration

Introduction

The OpenStack Identity service, known as Keystone, provides services for authenticating and managing user accounts and role information for our OpenStack cloud environment. It is a crucial service that underpins the authentication and verification between all of our OpenStack cloud services and is the first service that needs to be installed within an OpenStack environment. ...

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