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Project Moonshot is a Janet-led initiative, in partnership with the GÉANT project and others, to develop a single unifying technology for extending the benefits of federated identity to a broad range of non-Web services, including Cloud infrastructures, High Performance Computing & Grid infrastructures and other commonly deployed services including mail, file store, remote access and instant messaging. The goal of the technology is to enable the management of access to a broad range of services and applications, using a single technology and infrastructure. This is expected to significantly improve the delivery of these services by providing users with a common single sign-on, for both internal and external services. Service providers will be able to more easily offer their services to users from other organisations using a single common authentication mechanism. This will enhance the user’s experience, and reduce costs for those organisations supporting users, and delivering services to them. This group is for community of Moonshot users, whether you're new to the technology, you're currently evaluating and getting to grips with it, or you've deployed it. For the list of guidance available about Moonshot within this group, see the Start Here wiki page. Jisc Assent, the production service underpinned by the Moonshot technology, went live on 25th March 2015. For information on, or to join the Jisc Assent service, please visit http://www.jisc.ac.uk/assent

Application Compatibility by Server - OpenStack

1. Introduction

OpenStack is a cloud operating system. The Information Systems and Security Group at the University of Kent has developed a version of the Openstack Keystone Identity Server which supports federation.

Until this page is updated, for more details, please email moonshot-community@jiscmail.ac.uk

2. Compatibility

This section presents a list of the known different versions of the software and the status of compatibility of each of these.

A demo and instructions can be found at http://sec.cs.kent.ac.uk/demos/keystone.html

2.1 Confirmed working

The following versions of the software have been tested and are confirmed to allow Moonshot authentication via the Moonshot GSS mechanism. Click on the link to get instructions for that particular version.

2.2 Suspected to work

The following versions of the software have not been tested, but it is suspected that they should allow Moonshot authentication via the Moonshot GSS mechanism.

Please let us know if you've tried any of these whether your trial was successful or unsuccessful...

  • None.

2.3 Known to not work

The following versions of the software have been tested and are confirmed to not allow Moonshot authentication via the Moonshot GSS mechanism:

  • None.

2.4 Unknown

The following versions of the software are known to exist, but we have no idea whether they work or not.

Please let us know if you've tried any of these whether your trial was successful or unsuccessful...

3. Client Compatibility

The demo uses the Openstack Swift client.