[Openstack] Examples of authentication using the glance REST API?

Brian Waldon brian.waldon at rackspace.com
Mon Jun 11 14:54:23 UTC 2012


Jay: I asked Michael to rewrite the tool directly using the Glance's REST API - that's why this question is coming up.

Michael: You should just authenticate with keystone directly (python-keystoneclient would be easiest), then pass your X-Auth-Token header in with any subsequent Glance requests.

Waldon


On Jun 11, 2012, at 6:59 AM, Jay Pipes wrote:

> Michael, you shouldn't need to do anything regarding authentication... the glance REST client already handles all of that. When you construct a client object, you pass in the user/password/tenant information that the client uses in constructing authenticated requests.
> 
> All the best,
> -jay
> 
> On 06/11/2012 12:04 AM, Vaze, Mandar wrote:
>> I think glance uses keystone for authentication (default setup)
>> 
>> See https://lists.launchpad.net/openstack/msg12661.html and http://docs.openstack.org/api/openstack-compute/programmer/content/using-python-to-obtain-the-authentication-token.html for "how to get auth token"
>> 
>> Once you use authenticate against keystone, you can get the auth-token and set it as X-Auth-Token http header
>> 
>> -Mandar
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: openstack-bounces+mandar.vaze=nttdata.com at lists.launchpad.net [mailto:openstack-bounces+mandar.vaze=nttdata.com at lists.launchpad.net] On Behalf Of Michael Still
>> Sent: Monday, June 11, 2012 9:16 AM
>> To: openstack at lists.launchpad.net
>> Subject: [Openstack] Examples of authentication using the glance REST API?
>> 
>> Hi.
>> 
>> I am trying to find an example of how to do authentication using the glance REST API. I assume there are some HTTP headers that I need to set, but a pointer to some existing code which does this would be appreciated.
>> 
>> This is part of porting the glance replicator to use the REST API instead of the client library.
>> 
>> Thanks heaps,
>> Mikal
>> 
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