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OpenStack Keystone
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Keystone provides authentication, authorization and service discovery
mechanisms via HTTP primarily for use by projects in the OpenStack family. It
is most commonly deployed as an HTTP interface to existing identity systems,
such as LDAP.

Developer documentation, the source of which is in ``doc/source/``, is
published at:

    http://keystone.openstack.org/

The API specification is available at:

    https://github.com/openstack/identity-api

The API documentation is available at:

    http://api.openstack.org/api-ref-identity.html

The canonical client library is available at:

    https://github.com/openstack/python-keystoneclient

Documentation for cloud administrators is available at:

    http://docs.openstack.org/

The source of documentation for cloud administrators is available at:

    https://github.com/openstack/openstack-manuals

Information about our team meeting is available at:

    https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Meetings/KeystoneMeeting

Bugs and feature requests are tracked on Launchpad at:

    https://bugs.launchpad.net/keystone

Future design work is tracked at:

    https://github.com/openstack/keystone-specs

Contributors are encouraged to join IRC (``#openstack-keystone`` on freenode):

    https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/IRC

For information on contributing to Keystone, see ``CONTRIBUTING.rst``.
