Thank you. I will get rid of Redis. On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 3:22 PM, Jay Pipes <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 10:32 AM, Mika Kohonen > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I'm having a look at the Nova platform and I must admit I'm impressed. >> I'm testing different configurations and I don't understand what are >> exactly the benefits of using Redis vs OpenLDAP. > > Don't think too much about it :) Redis is being entirely removed. > >> The default configuration is Redis based, but from a classic system >> administrator perspective, OpenLDAP is much more mature and I know >> about it, but Redis is new, looks sexy, but I don't know if it's worth >> to use it instead of OpenLDAP. > > OK, so right now there is a FakeLDAP driver that uses Redis to store > LDAP DNs. This is being rewritten to remove the Redis dependency. > The real LDAPdriver in /nova/auth/ldapdriver.py uses the plain old > python-ldap module to connect to a real LDAP store. Whether you use > OpenLDAP or some other LDAP driver under the covers is completely up > to you. :) > >> Thinking in the long term, can you give some hints about the roadmap >> of Nova and if I should go with Redis instead of OpenLDAP? > > See above. It's not about Redis vs. OpenLDAP. :) AFAIK, Nova uses > slapd (the OpenLDAP LDAP daemon) as the default LDAP daemon if you > don't use the "faked" LDAP driver. > > -jay >
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