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Managing OpenStack Authentication and Authorization with Keystone

by Paolo Cruschelli

In the last few years OpenStack has gained a foothold as the de-facto standard in the area of Cloud Computing. In this course, you will learn how to manage identity and access control for an enterprise grade OpenStack deployment.

What you'll learn

Authentication and authorization management is one of the main features of OpenStack. As an IT administrator, being sure that your organization is able to scale the number of users and to properly enforce identity and access management can be one of your hardest tasks without proper knowledge and tools. In this course, Managing OpenStack Authentication and Authorization with Keystone, you will be exposed to the complete range of OpenStack identity concepts. First, you will learn basic concepts like users, roles, and projects. Next, you will explore how to delegate the authorization privileges to your application and how to federate your OpenStack deployment with Google as the identity provider. Finally, you will discover a set of tools to manage and deploy authentication and authorization frameworks and you will learn which one fits better in a wide range of real-world scenarios. By the end of this course, you will have a theoretical and practical knowledge of OpenStack identity and access control types.

About the author

With more than 15 years of experience, Paolo has a strong technical background from a wide range of working experiences: network/cloud service design (European Space Agency), technical project manager of R&D projects (SDN/NFV/5G), and integration and validation (Siemens/Ericsson/Alcatel).

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