c339189b44
Switch to using the self-contained django_openstack_auth
package which is a proper django.contrib.auth pluggable
backend.
Notable functional improvements include:
* Better overall security via use of standard Django
auth code (well-vetted by security experts).
* Token expiration checking.
* User "enabled" attribute checking.
* Support for full range of Django auth attributes
such as is_anonymous, is_active, is_superuser, etc.
* Improved hooks for RBAC/permission-based acess control.
Regarding the RBAC/permission-based access control, this
patch moves all "role" and "service"-oriented checks to
permission checks. This will make transitioning to
policy-driven checking much easier once that fully lands
in OpenStack.
Implements blueprint move-keystone-support-to-django-auth-backend
Change-Id: I4f3112af797aff8c4c5e9930c6ca33a70e45589d
Horizon (OpenStack Dashboard)
Horizon is a Django-based project aimed at providing a complete
OpenStack Dashboard along with an extensible framework for building new
dashboards from reusable components. The
openstack_dashboard module is a reference implementation of
a Django site that uses the horizon app to provide
web-based interactions with the various OpenStack projects.
For release management:
For blueprints and feature specifications:
For issue tracking:
Dependencies
To get started you will need to install Node.js (http://nodejs.org/) on your machine. Node.js is used with Horizon in order to use LESS (http://lesscss.org/) for our CSS needs. Horizon is currently using Node.js v0.6.12.
For Ubuntu use apt to install Node.js:
$ sudo apt-get install nodejsFor other versions of Linux, please see here:: http://nodejs.org/#download for how to install Node.js on your system.
Getting Started
For local development, first create a virtualenv for the project. In
the tools directory there is a script to create one for
you:
$ python tools/install_venv.py
Alternatively, the run_tests.sh script will also install
the environment for you and then run the full test suite to verify
everything is installed and functioning correctly.
Now that the virtualenv is created, you need to configure your local
environment. To do this, create a local_settings.py file in
the openstack_dashboard/local/ directory. There is a
local_settings.py.example file there that may be used as a
template.
If all is well you should able to run the development server locally:
$ tools/with_venv.sh manage.py runserver
or, as a shortcut:
$ ./run_tests.sh --runserverSettings Up OpenStack
The recommended tool for installing and configuring the core OpenStack components is Devstack. Refer to their documentation for getting Nova, Keystone, Glance, etc. up and running.
Note
The minimum required set of OpenStack services running includes the following:
- Nova (compute, api, scheduler, network, and volume services)
- Glance
- Keystone
Optional support is provided for Swift.
Development
For development, start with the getting started instructions above. Once you have a working virtualenv and all the necessary packages, read on.
If dependencies are added to either horizon or
openstack-dashboard, they should be added to
tools/pip-requires.
The run_tests.sh script invokes tests and analyses on
both of these components in its process, and it is what Jenkins uses to
verify the stability of the project. If run before an environment is set
up, it will ask if you wish to install one.
To run the unit tests:
$ ./run_tests.shBuilding Contributor Documentation
This documentation is written by contributors, for contributors.
The source is maintained in the doc/source folder using
reStructuredText
and built by Sphinx
Building Automatically:
$ ./run_tests.sh --docsBuilding Manually:
$ export DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE=local.local_settings $ python doc/generate_autodoc_index.py $ sphinx-build -b html doc/source build/sphinx/html
Results are in the build/sphinx/html directory