openstack-manuals/doc/config-reference/source/identity/caching.rst

Caching layer

Identity supports a caching layer that is above the configurable subsystems, such as token or assignment. The majority of the caching configuration options are set in the [cache] section. However, each section that has the capability to be cached usually has a caching option that will toggle caching for that specific section. By default, caching is globally disabled. Options are as follows:

Current functional back ends are:

dogpile.cache.memcached

Memcached back end using the standard python-memcached library.

dogpile.cache.pylibmc

Memcached back end using the pylibmc library.

dogpile.cache.bmemcached

Memcached using the python-binary-memcached library.

dogpile.cache.redis

Redis back end.

dogpile.cache.dbm

Local DBM file back end.

dogpile.cache.memory

In-memory cache, not suitable for use outside of testing as it does not cleanup its internal cache on cache expiration and does not share cache between processes. This means that caching and cache invalidation will not be consistent or reliable.

dogpile.cache.mongo

MongoDB as caching back end.