[CentralOH] Amazon AWS API Infrastructure

[Patrick Shuff]

Thanks for the response Austin.

Actually the only thing I am interested in is the authentication mechanisms
that AWS provides with its REST API.  Basically a server implementation of
the Access Key and Secret Access Key.

Patrick

On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 8:07 PM, Austin Godber <godber at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Patrick,
>
> There is an open source cloud infrastructure project, implemented in
> python no less, with an API that I think is identical to amazons.  It
> is called openstack:
>
> http://openstack.org/
>
> Is this what you're looking for?
>
> -Austin
>
> On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 1:39 PM, Patrick Shuff <patrick.shuff at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Hi everyone.  Good to meet everybody the other night at the user group
> > meeting.  I hope my questions about promoting python in the enterprise
> > didn't come across as "scoping python talent".  That was not my
> intention.
> >  And we're not currently hiring :)
> >
> > Okay, now on to my questions:
> >
> > Does anyone have any knowledge of a project that basically replicates
> > Amazon's API Infrastructure i.e. create API Access Keys/Secret Key.  I
> was
> > thinking instead of re-invent the wheel allowing developers to access an
> > API, I could re-use most authentication code from the boto library.
> >  Thoughts?
> >
> > Also along the same lines, what are folks using to authenticate server
> > requests using username/passwords?  I've looked into OpenID.   Is this
> the
> > right choice?  Please note I am not using Django and would prefer this be
> > framework agnostic.  Preferably it would be something with client code
> > already available in most languages (javascript, python, etc).
> >
> > It would be nice to just wrap my framework handlers with decorators for
> all
> > the authentication stuff (changing bits and pieces where necessary).
> >
> > Thanks everyone!
> > Patrick
> >
> >
> >
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