[openstack-dev] [tc][ptl][keystone] Proposal to split authentication part out of Keystone to separated project

Boris Pavlovic bpavlovic at mirantis.com
Wed Apr 6 19:26:23 UTC 2016


Hi stackers,

I would like to suggest very simple idea of splitting out of Keystone
authentication
part in the separated project.

Such change has 2 positive outcomes:
1) It will be quite simple to create scalable service with high performance
for authentication based on very mature projects like: Kerberos[1] and
OpenLDAP[2].

2) This will reduce scope of Keystone, which means 2 things
2.1) Smaller code base that has less issues and is simpler for testing
2.2) Keystone team would be able to concentrate more on fixing
perf/scalability issues of authorization, which is crucial at the moment
for large clouds.

Thoughts?

[1] http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/
[2] http://ldapcon.org/2011/downloads/hummel-slides.pdf

Best regards,
Boris Pavlovic
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