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Our keystone database is clustered across regions, so we have this job running on node1 in each site on alternating hours. I don’t think you’d want a bunch of cron jobs firing off all at once to cleanup tokens on multiple clustered nodes. That’s one reason I know not to put this in the code.

Are there other reasons that an operator might like to keep old tokens? Auditing?

From: Tim Bell <Tim.Bell at cern.ch<mailto:Tim.Bell at cern.ch>>
Date: Sunday, January 25, 2015 at 11:10 PM
To: Mike Smith <mismith at overstock.com<mailto:mismith at overstock.com>>, Daniel Comnea <comnea.dani at gmail.com<mailto:comnea.dani at gmail.com>>
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Subject: Re: [Openstack-operators] [openstack-dev][openstack-operators]flush expired tokens and moves deleted instance

This is often mentioned as one of those items which catches every OpenStack cloud operator at some time. It’s not clear to me that there could not be a scheduled job built into the system with a default frequency (configurable, ideally).

If we are all configuring this as a cron job, is there a reason that it could not be built into the code ?

Tim

From: Mike Smith [mailto:mismith at overstock.com]
Sent: 24 January 2015 18:08
To: Daniel Comnea
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Subject: Re: [Openstack-operators] [openstack-dev][openstack-operators]flush expired tokens and moves deleted instance

It is still mentioned in the Juno installation docs:

By default, the Identity service stores expired tokens in the database indefinitely. The
accumulation of expired tokens considerably increases the database size and might degrade
service performance, particularly in environments with limited resources.
We recommend that you use cron to configure a periodic task that purges expired tokens
hourly:
# (crontab -l -u keystone 2>&1 | grep -q token_flush) || \
echo '@hourly /usr/bin/keystone-manage token_flush >/var/log/keystone/
keystone-tokenflush.log 2>&1' \
>> /var/spool/cron/keystone



Mike Smith
Principal Engineer, Website Systems
Overstock.com<http://Overstock.com>


On Jan 24, 2015, at 10:03 AM, Daniel Comnea <comnea.dani at gmail.com<mailto:comnea.dani at gmail.com>> wrote:

Hi all,

I just bumped into Sebastien's blog where he suggested a cron job should run in production to tidy up expired tokens - see blog[1]
Could you please remind me if this is still required in IceHouse/ Juno? (i kind of remember i've seen some work being done in this direction but i can't find the emails)

Thanks,
Dani

[1] http://www.sebastien-han.fr/blog/2014/08/18/a-must-have-cron-job-on-your-openstack-cloud/
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