On 05/13/2013 11:05 AM, Mike Kolesnik wrote:
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On 05/13/2013 10:42 AM, Oved Ourfalli wrote:
IMO, the following fields will fit most providers, at least the ones we plan to support in the near future: * id * name * type * URL * requires_authentication (boolean) to support development/POC/testing... mode
redundant with empty username/password?
Empty user/password is an implementation details. Seems logical to me to be explicit about it.
* username * password
do keystone based services allow to authenticate directly to them, or you need an additional authentication url (to get the ticket)?
No, the OpenStack services require a header with the token: "When Keystone is enabled, users that submit requests to the Quantum service must provide an authentication token in X-Auth-Token request header. You obtain the token by authenticating to the Keystone endpoint."
http://docs.openstack.org/api/openstack-network/2.0/content/Authentication-d...
so you are missing an 'authentication url' field, although i think there was some discussion that until we expect more than a single keystone, may be a config