Identity, authentication, and service-catalogue service — issues tokens, manages users and projects, federates with external identity providers (LDAP, SAML, OIDC), and exposes the service catalogue every other OpenStack project consumes for endpoint discovery
Jurisdictional exposure
Sub-services (3)
Domains
Top-level identity boundaries containing projects and users
Federation
SAML2 and OIDC federation with external identity providers
Policies
RBAC policy framework consumed by every service for authorisation
Tags
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