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[Dan Prince <dprince@xxxxxxxxxx>]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Brian Waldon" <brian.waldon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "openstack (openstack@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx)" <openstack@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, May 7, 2012 6:09:53 PM
> Subject: [Openstack] [Nova] Removal of Deprecated Auth
> 
> I wanted to send out a heads-up to let everyone know that I am now
> removing all the old auth code from Nova
> (https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/remove-deprecated-auth).
> This will definitely be disruptive if you depend on this old code
> and haven't yet taken the steps towards using Keystone. If you
> aren't sure if you depend on it, the best way to tell is to look for
> the 'auth_strategy' flag - it will be set to 'deprecated'.
> 
> I did want to give a rough outline of how I'm planning to get all
> this done:
> 
> 1) Remove AuthMiddleware. At this point, the API won't be able to use
> the deprecated auth strategy, but you can still use the nova-manage
> commands - https://review.openstack.org/#/c/7215/
> 2) Remove nova-manage commands. The data won't have been migrated out
> yet, but you won't have any interface to it through Nova. I'm
> waiting on an OK from Dan Prince here, as I don't want to break
> SmokeStack!


OK. I put in the required Chef/Puppet changes today. Things should be a go with regards to SmokeStack. Thanks for the heads up.

Dan


> 3) Remove DB junk. This includes any db api methods and the actual
> removal of the auth tables.
> 
> I'm probably missing some steps in there, but hey, it's a rough
> outline. Please reach out to me now if you have any issues with
> this!
> 
> Brian Waldon
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