Key Manager service overview

Key Manager service overview

The Key Manager service provides secure storage, provisioning and management of secrets, such as passwords, encryption keys, etc.

The Key Manager service consists of the following components:

barbican-api service
Provides an OpenStack-native RESTful API that supports provisioning and managing Barbican secrets.
barbican-worker service
Provides an Openstack RPC interface that interacts with ‘’barican-api’’ and reads from the barbican message queue. Supports the fulfillment of Barbican orders.
barbican-keystone-listener service
Listens to messages from the Keystone notification service. Used to manage the representation of Keystone projects in the Barbican database when projects are deleted.
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