# Key Manager service

- Key Manager service overview
- Install and configure
  - Install and configure for Red Hat Enterprise Linux and CentOS
  - Install and configure for Ubuntu
  - Configure Secret Store Back-end
- Verify operation
- Next steps

The Key Manager service (barbican) provides secure storage, provisioning and management of secret data. This includes keying material such as symmetric keys, asymmetric keys, certificates and raw binary data.

This chapter assumes a working setup of OpenStack following the OpenStack Installation Tutorial.

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