[CentralOH] Amazon AWS API Infrastructure

[Kris Hardy]

I'll also throw in Deltacloud and Aeolus.  You might want to see how
they're handling things.  Not sure if it helps you at all, though.

-Kris

On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 6:18 PM, Patrick Shuff <patrick.shuff at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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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