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

Lance Bragstad lbragstad at gmail.com
Mon Sep 29 16:39:33 UTC 2014


On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 11:25 AM, Jay Pipes <jaypipes at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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?


To the best of my knowledge, I haven't seen a spec or blueprint proposed
for a swift token backend.


>
> Best,
> -jay
>
>
>
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