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

Dolph Mathews dolph.mathews at gmail.com
Fri Apr 8 17:39:34 UTC 2016


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> Date: 04/08/2016 01:10 PM
> Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [tc][ptl][keystone] Proposal to split
> authentication part out of Keystone to separated project
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> On 04/08/2016 11:12 AM, Andy Smith wrote:
> > Aaaaaahahahahhahahahhaahhahahahahahahahahhahhahahahahhahaha
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> > On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 6:23 AM Lance Bragstad <lbragstad at gmail.com
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> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','lbragstad at gmail.com');>>> wrote:
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> >     In response to point 2.2, the progress with Fernet in the last year
> >     has exposed performance pain points in keystone. Finding sensible
> >     solutions for those issues is crucial in order for people to adopt
> >     Fernet. In Mitaka we had a lot of discussion that resulted in
> >     landing several performance related patches.
> >
> >     As of today, we're already focusing on scalability, performance, and
> >     simplicity. I'm afraid a project split would only delay the work
> >     we're doing right now.
> >
> >     On Wed, Apr 6, 2016 at 5:34 PM, Morgan Fainberg
> >     <morgan.fainberg at gmail.com
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> >         On Wed, Apr 6, 2016 at 6:29 PM, David Stanek
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> >             On Wed, Apr 6, 2016 at 3:26 PM Boris Pavlovic
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> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','bpavlovic at mirantis.com');>>> wrote:
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> >
> >                 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.
> >
> >
> >             I'm not sure that this is entirely true. If we truly just
> >             split up the project, meaning we don't remove functionality,
> >             then we'd have the same number of bugs and work. It would
> >             just be split across two projects.
> >
> >             I think the current momentum to get out of the authn
> >             business is still our best bet. As Steve mentioned this is
> >             ongoing work.
> >
> >             -- David
> >
> >
> >         What everyone else said... but add in the need then to either
> >         pass the AuthN over to the Assignment/AuthZ api or bake it in
> >         (via apache module?) and we are basically where we are now.
> >
> >         Steve alluded to splitting out the authentication bit (but not
> >         to a new service), the idea there is to make it so AuthN is not
> >         part of the CRUD interface of the server. All being said, AuthN
> >         and AuthZ are going to be hard to split into two separate
> >         services and with exception of the unfounded "scope" benefit, we
> >         already can handle most of what you've proposed with zero
> >         changes to Keystone.
> >
> >         Cheers,
> >         --Morgan
> >
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