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Chapter 1. Overview

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OpenStack Key Manager (barbican) is the secrets manager for Red Hat OpenStack Platform. You can use the barbican API and command line to centrally manage the certificates, keys, and passwords used by OpenStack services. Barbican currently supports the following use cases described in this guide:

  • Symmetric encryption keys - used for Block Storage (cinder) volume encryption, ephemeral disk encryption, and Object Storage (swift) encryption, among others.
  • Asymmetric keys and certificates - used for glance image signing and verification, among others.

In this release, barbican offers integration with the Block Storage (cinder) and Compute (nova) components.

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