OpenStack Keystone

OpenStackSecurityFree tier available

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

Provider HQ
NoneAustin, USA (Foundation)
Sovereign option
No sovereign-flagged regions in the catalogue for this service.

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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Pricing

Pricing model:free