Collaboration between SAML Federations and OpenStack Clouds
Mih\'aly H\'eder, Szabolcs Tenczer, Andrea Biancini
TL;DR
This paper introduces a novel software solution enabling collaboration between OpenStack clouds within SAML federations and standalone attribute authorities, demonstrating design principles and generalizability for federated cloud access.
Contribution
It presents a new integration approach for OpenStack and SAML federations, with a case study illustrating implementation of key engineering properties.
Findings
Successful implementation of the integration software
Analysis of previous OpenStack federation efforts
Template for federative cloud access
Abstract
In this paper, we present the design process of a novel solution for enabling the collaboration between OpenStack cloud systems in SAML federations with standalone attribute authorities, such as national research and education federations or eduGAIN. The software solution that realizes the integration of systems serves as a case study to show how abstract desirable engineering properties fixed at the beginning of the design process can be implemented during the development phase. An analysis of earlier generations of OpenStack-related developments trying to tackle the same problem is given. Many aspects of this software integration can be generalized to serve as a template for federative cloud access.
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