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Manage rights in OpenStack

Openstack lacks on sophisticated rights management, the most users figure. But that's not the case, role management in Openstack is available. First users and groups needs to be added to projects, this can be done per CLI or GUI [1]. Lets say, a group called devops shall have the full control about OpenStack, but others not in that group can have dedicated operation access like create snapshot, stop / start / restart an instance or looking at the floating IP pool. Users, Groups and Policies OpenStack handles the rights in a policy file in /etc/nova/policy.json , using roles definitions per group assigned to all tasks OpenStack provides. It looks like: { "context_is_admin": "role:admin", "admin_or_owner": "is_admin:True or project_id:%(project_id)s", "default": "rule:admin_or_owner", ... } It describes the default - an member of a project is the admin of that project. To add additional rules, they have to be defin