The Stevedore library is used for loading backend drivers rather than using importutils. This provides a level of indirection for deployers/packagers. The importutils method of loading drivers is still supported, but it's deprecated. bp stevedore Change-Id: Id77ebf7056987ff1d3b9f62fab411845e63c86c3
OpenStack Keystone
Keystone provides authentication, authorization and service discovery mechanisms via HTTP primarily for use by projects in the OpenStack family. It is most commonly deployed as an HTTP interface to existing identity systems, such as LDAP.
Developer documentation, the source of which is in
doc/source/, is published at:
The API specification and documentation are available at:
The canonical client library is available at:
Documentation for cloud administrators is available at:
The source of documentation for cloud administrators is available at:
Information about our team meeting is available at:
Bugs and feature requests are tracked on Launchpad at:
Future design work is tracked at:
http://specs.openstack.org/openstack/keystone-specs/#identity-program-specifications
Contributors are encouraged to join IRC
(#openstack-keystone on freenode):
For information on contributing to Keystone, see
CONTRIBUTING.rst.