On 26/09/16 09:01, Tom Barber wrote: > Okay so I discussed this with a few folk in Pasadena but I think its > worth documenting on the list to find out if something exists in > secret, or if there is any technical reason why I shouldn't write this. > > Taking some inspiration from the Nagios External Master charm, it > strikes me as a good idea to have an LDAP interface and LDAP no op > charm that can allow charms to connect to external LDAP sources with > minimal effort. > > I have a long term goal to charm up openldap or whatever but in the > short term, it also strikes me that a lot of implementing companies > would already have an AD server or OpenLDAP server running somewhere > that they wouldn't want to migrate which is completely understandable. > So an LDAP charm that just tells charms the useful information like > url, port, ssl, basedn, search mask etc would be a good way to let > Saiku, Gitlab, Hadoop, HTTPD etc hook up to corporate LDAP servers to > provide proper user management. Similarly, if I was looking to setup a > scalable PAAS/SAAS setup I would want to centralise my stuff instead > of having a bunch of disparate applications. > > Comments and suggestions please.
Sounds great - we would call this a proxy charm - it doesn't implement the functionality but it contains all the handshaking to connect you to an established service that does. Mark -- Juju mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/juju
