[Openstack] keystone middleware

David Chadwick d.w.chadwick at kent.ac.uk
Mon Feb 18 16:11:05 UTC 2013


Hi Pat

sounds like you need our federation software which was designed 
specifically for this use case. We currently support SAML as the SSO 
protocol, and have just added Keystone to Keystone SSO. I have also 
written a blueprint to show how OAuthv2 and OpenConnect can be used by 
writing custom plugin modules. So if you have your own proprietary SSO 
protocol you can write plugin modules for this

Kristy can let you Pat have an alpha version for testing if he wants it.

regards

David


On 18/02/2013 15:59, pat wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Sorry to disturb, but I have some questions regarding keystone middleware.
>
> Some introduction to problem: I need to integrate OpenStack to our existing
> infrastructure where all systems are integrated on REST and Web level using
> SSO-like system (there's generated a token string with specific information).
> Required behavior is to allow users log-in once in existing infrastructure and
> without additional log-in access OpenStack components.
>
> I assume this is possible by implementing custom keystone drivers for identity
> and token. Is that correct?
> Should I also implement new policy and/or catalog driver?
>
> If this is possible I expect the keystone token is the token generated by my
> middleware driver(s) and such token is used by all other OpenStack parts. Is
> that correct?
> Does this affect way how the OpenStack internally validates token? Now when
> validating token the admin token has to be passed to validation request too. I
> expect not.
>
> Is there possible to chain more keystone authentication drivers? E.g. first
> check my custom and if this one fails then check SQL one.
>
> I've searched internet to find some example of keystone middleware, but I
> didn't succeed :-\ Is there an example or step by step documentation
> (something for an ... :-))? I've read "Middleware Architecture" documentation
> and my questions are based on this.
>
> Thanks a lot for your help.
>
>       Pat
>
>
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