[openstack-dev] [keystone][swift] Has anybody considered storing tokens in Swift?

Jay Pipes jaypipes at gmail.com
Mon Sep 29 16:25:36 UTC 2014


On 09/29/2014 12:15 PM, Julien Danjou wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 29 2014, Jay Pipes wrote:
>
>> What if we wrote a token driver in Keystone that uses Swift for backend storage?
>
> Yay! I already wrote a PoC to that:
>
>    https://review.openstack.org/#/c/86016/

Sweet! :)

> It has been rejected because this patch didn't use the generic approach
> that Keystone tries to use to all the storage backends. Otherwise, I've
> tested it a bit with devstack and it worked fine.
>
> I didn't continue to work on it by lack of time, and because the effort
> to use Swift as a "generic" cache mechanism seemed a bit tricky to me.

Any objection to me taking up the work? Was there any associated 
blueprint for it?

Best,
-jay





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