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Tony Campbell grew up in the heart of Silicon Valley where he had access and exposure to many technology companies that led the Internet boom. He started programming in the early 90s and has been hooked since then. Tony is committed to helping others understand and successfully adopt OpenStack.
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Know your version


As of the Liberty release of OpenStack, the identity service finds itself in transition. The service supports two API versions: v2 and v3. The v2 version of the API is deprecated, but may still be found in many OpenStack deployments. Recent releases of OpenStack are configured to serve both the v2 and v3 versions of the Identity API. This can be confirmed by examining the keystone-paste.ini configuration file.

In this file, you will find configurations for two composite apps: main and admin. As demonstrated in the preceding example, each app has a setting for /v2.0 and /v3. With this configuration, this deployment will serve a request to the v2 or v3 Identity API. Here, the command-line clients transition from individual clients per project to a unified OpenStack client that works across projects. The keystone command-line client supports v2 of the Identity API. The newer and preferred OpenStack client supports v2 and v3 of the Identity API.

The two composite apps in the...

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Tony Campbell grew up in the heart of Silicon Valley where he had access and exposure to many technology companies that led the Internet boom. He started programming in the early 90s and has been hooked since then. Tony is committed to helping others understand and successfully adopt OpenStack.
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