Open Stack

Hello Everyone! 

After contributing consistently to OpenStack since the Grizzly cycle and more specifically to Keystone since Havana, I’d like to put my name into the hat for the Keystone PTL role during the Kilo release cycle. I’ve been a core developer on Keystone since the latter part of the Havana cycle and have largely been focused on the improvement of performance and consistency of the Keystone APIs, helping new developers contribute to OpenStack, and working cross-team to ensure the other projects have the support they need from Keystone to succeed.  

My primary interests for project the continued drive of stability and improvement on the user experience. This direction involves finding a balance between the desires for new features and improving upon what we’ve already developed. In the last two cycles I’ve seen an incredible move towards making Keystone a more full featured Authentication, Authorization, and Audit program. This in no small part is credited to the incredible team of contributors (whether they are operations-focused and providing feedback, developers working on cleaner enterprise integration such as federated identity, or anything in between).  

For the Kilo cycle I would like to see Keystone development focus on improving the experience for everyone interacting with the service. This continues to place a very heavy focus on improvement of the client and middleware (keystoneclient, keystonemiddleware, and the integration of the other OpenStack client libraries/cli tools with keystoneclient to use Sessions, pluggable auth, etc). This focus on client work will also be aimed at finishing the work needed to get all OpenStack projects fully utilizing and working with the Keystone V3 API. 

In terms of the Keystone service itself, I would like to see a balance of somewhere about 25% new development (wholly new features) that are landed early in the release cycle and 75% of development efforts on improving the features we have as of the Juno release. This latter 75% would include continued enhancements to systems such as federation, expanded auth mechanisms, a heavy focus on overall performance (including a continued hard look at token performance), a focus improvement on the tests to ensure we test and gate on real-world deployment scenarios, and smoothing out the rough edges when interacting with Keystone’s APIs. 

In short, I think we’ve been largely heading the right direction with Keystone, but there are still a lot of things we can do to improve and in the process not only pay down some technical debt we may have accrued but make Keystone significantly better for our developers, deployers, and users. 

Last of all, I want to say that above and beyond everything else, as PTL, I am looking to support the outstanding community of developers so that we can continue Keystone’s success. Without the dedication and hard work of everyone who has contributed to Keystone we would not be where we are today. I am extremely pleased with how far we’ve come and look forward to seeing the continued success as we move into the Kilo release cycle and beyond not just for Keystone but all of OpenStack. 


Cheers, 
Morgan Fainberg


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Morgan Fainberg