From 32121019dcf5448070942752f633eab3db5559ff Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: termie Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2011 15:56:17 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] add crud info to readme --- README.rst | 15 +++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+) diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst index 3277d44468..600aaa3ce5 100644 --- a/README.rst +++ b/README.rst @@ -7,6 +7,9 @@ Keystone Light is a re-interpretation of the Keystone project that provides Identity, Token and Catalog services for use specifically by projects in the OpenStack family. +Much of the design is precipitated from the expectation that the auth backends +for most deployments will actually be shims in front of existing user systems. + ---------- Data Model @@ -87,6 +90,18 @@ Diagram: keystone_compat_flows.sdx_ .. _: https://raw.github.com/termie/keystonelight/master/docs/keystone_compat_flows.sdx +---------------- +Approach to CRUD +---------------- + +While it is expected that any "real" deployment at a large company will manage +their users, tenants and other metadata in their existing user systems, a +variety of CRUD operations are provided for the sake of development and testing. + +CRUD is treated as an extension or additional feature to the core feature set in +that it is not required that a backend support it. + + ----------- Still To Do -----------