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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
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<section xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
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xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
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xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
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version="5.0"
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xml:id="keystone-service-mgmt">
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<title>Service management</title>
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<para>The Identity Service provides
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identity, token, catalog, and policy services.
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It consists of:</para>
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem>
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<para><systemitem class="service">keystone-all</systemitem>.
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Starts both the service and administrative APIs in a
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single process to provide Catalog, Authorization, and
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Authentication services for OpenStack.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>Identity Service functions. Each has a pluggable back
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end that allows different ways to use the particular
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service. Most support standard back ends like LDAP or
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SQL.</para>
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</listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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<para>The Identity Service also maintains a user that
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corresponds to each service, such as, a user named
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<emphasis>nova</emphasis> for the Compute service, and
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a special service tenant called
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<emphasis>service</emphasis>.</para>
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<para>For information about how to create services and
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endpoints, see the <link
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xlink:href="http://docs.openstack.org/user-guide-admin/content/index.html"
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><citetitle>OpenStack Admin User
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Guide</citetitle></link>.</para>
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</section>
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