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Can you clarify if the feature is being deprecated – as in still usable but not recommended with a warning, or dropped, as-in, won’t work at all? You mention both in the first two sentences.

From: Morgan Fainberg <morgan.fainberg at gmail.com<mailto:morgan.fainberg at gmail.com>>
Date: Thursday, February 19, 2015 at 12:32 PM
To: openstack-operators <openstack-operators at lists.openstack.org<mailto:openstack-operators at lists.openstack.org>>
Subject: [Openstack-operators] [Keystone] Deprecation of Eventlet deployment in Kilo (Removal for "M"-release)

The Keystone development team is planning to deprecate deployment of Keystone under Eventlet during the Kilo cycle. Support for deploying under eventlet will be dropped as of the “M”-release of OpenStack.

The reasoning behind this move is multifaceted but the core of the reasons are as follows:


 *   Keystone relies on apache/web-server modules to handle federated identity (validation of SAML, etc) and similar SSO type authentication (Kerberos).
 *   Eventlet has proven problematic when it comes to workloads within Keystone, notably that a number of actions cannot yield (either due to lacking in Eventlet, or that the dependent library uses C-bindings that eventlet is not able to work with).
 *   Keystone has recommended (for multiple cycles) deploying Keystone under apache instead of eventlet. In the gate we primarily test all new development under Apache/mod_wsgi deployments.
 *   Most deployers I’ve discussed keystone deployment with are either already on httpd+mod_wsgi or looking to move that direction (for support of features such as federated auth).

The review to finalize the deprecation is: https://review.openstack.org/#/c/157495/ (Please only provide comments on deprecation, verbiage can be modified separately from the actual act of deprecation).

Please comment on the review or in reply to this Email.

Thanks,
—Morgan

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Morgan Fainberg

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