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Current list of base services
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**A Castellan-compatible key store**
OpenStack components may keep secrets in a key store, using Oslo's
Castellan library as an indirection layer. While OpenStack provides a
Castellan-compatible key store service, Barbican, other key store backends
are also available for Castellan. Note that in the context of the base
services set Castellan is intended only to provide an interface for
services to interact with a key store, and it should not be treated as a
means to proxy API calls from users to that key store. In order to reduce
unnecessary exposure risks, any user interaction with secret material
should be left to a dedicated API instead (preferably as provided by
Barbican).
**An oslo.db-compatible database**
OpenStack components store data in a database, using oslo.db as an
indirection layer. While most OpenStack deployments use MySQL, other