[openstack-dev] [infra] [keystone] pysaml2/xmlsec1 dep blocking keystone-to-keystone federation

Dolph Mathews dolph.mathews at gmail.com
Tue Aug 26 15:28:08 UTC 2014


On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 6:44 AM, Sean Dague <sean at dague.net> wrote:

> On 08/26/2014 05:38 AM, Thierry Carrez wrote:
> > Hi keystone/infra,
> >
> > One key upcoming Juno feature (Keystone to keystone federation) is
> > currently blocked on adding pysaml2 to requirements:
> >
> > https://review.openstack.org/#/c/113294/
> >
> > It was -1ed by Doug after the discussion at the release meeting last
> > week, where the xmlsec1 dependency was raised as a potential infra issue.
> >
> > There doesn't seem to be so many good alternatives though. Steve
> > mentioned saml, but it's a bit alpha, and I have no idea how much work
> > would be required to use that instead of pysaml2 at this point.
> >
> > How blocking is the xmlsec1 dependency from an Infra perspective ? How
> > doable would a migration to saml at this point be ? I'm trying to find a
> > solution so that we can ship this feature :)
>
> I don't think this has anything to do with Infra. xmlsec1 is included in
> Debian / Ubuntu and Fedora.
>
> I think the complaint was about whether this library existed for MacOSX,
> which honestly, I *don't* think is a valid argument against adding a
> requirement as that's not a target environment for OpenStack.
>

FWIW, it's available on OS X via homebrew:

  $ brew install libxmlsec1


>
> I'm +2 on this moving forward. I feel that the keystone team answered
> the questions needed.
>

Thanks!


>
>         -Sean
>
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