In an earlier blog, we discussed how to setup Federated Identity for Openstack Keystone so that a Service Provider (SP) Keystone instance can hand off authentication to an external service,... Read More
As enterprises get more comfortable with the idea of hybrid cloud and multi-clouds, it has become critical to seamlessly manage user identities, and provide access to resources, across multiple clouds.... Read More
Platform9 Release 2.1 comes with a slew of new features, and enhancements, including: 1. Support for Distributed Virtual Router (DVR) in Neutron This upgrade adds the ability to use distributed... Read More
A previous blog gave an overview of how to configure Keystone with LDAP. Microsoft Active Directory (AD) is another very popular directory service for many enterprises. This article gives an... Read More
Keystone is a OpenStack project that implements OpenStack’s identity API and provides authentication and authorization services to identify users of the OpenStack cloud. It also provides a catalog of all... Read More
Platform9 supports Single Sign On with Microsoft Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS). This tutorial describes the procedure for configuring ADFS as a SAML Identity Provider in Platform9 Managed OpenStack. Prerequisites The following... Read More
One of the great things about OpenStack is all the options you have for deploying it. A recent blog mentioned various deployment models – and the flowchart below may help as you decide... Read More
Platform9 release 2.1 adds the ability to download discovered vSphere templates into OpenStack Glance. How It Works vSphere templates can be downloaded using the download command on the OpenStack command... Read More