# Common Authentication Library for OpenStack Clients

Keystoneauth provides a standard way to do authentication and service requests within the OpenStack ecosystem. It is designed for use in conjunction with the existing OpenStack clients and for simplifying the process of writing new clients.

## Contents

- Using Sessions
- Authentication Plugins
- Plugin Options
- Extras
- Migrating from keystoneclient
- keystoneauth1

## Release Notes

Release Notes

## Contributing

Code is hosted on opendev.org. Submit bugs to the Keystone project on Launchpad. Submit code to the `openstack/keystoneauth` project using Gerrit.

Run tests with `tox`.

## Indices and tables

- Index

- Module Index

- Search Page

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