Chapter 3. Keystone – OpenStack Identity Service

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Introduction – OpenStack Identity
  • Creating OpenStack domains in Keystone
  • Enabling domains in the OpenStack dashboard
  • Creating OpenStack projects in Keystone
  • Configuring roles in Keystone
  • Adding users in Keystone
  • Configuring groups in Keystone
  • Deleting projects
  • Deleting users
  • Deleting roles
  • Deleting groups
  • Deleting domains
  • OpenStack endpoint information

Introduction – OpenStack Identity

The OpenStack Identity service, known as Keystone , provides services for authenticating and managing user accounts and role information for our OpenStack cloud environment.

It is a crucial service that underpins the authentication and verification between all of our OpenStack ...

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