httpie-keystone-auth

OpenStack Keystone auth plugin for HTTPie.

Installation

$ pip install --upgrade httpie-keystone-auth

You should now see keystone under --auth-type / -A in $ http --help output.

Usage

Plugin uses openstacksdk library to parse the clouds.yaml file and get the token from Keystone.

A simple example of a clouds.yaml file is:

clouds:
  mycloud:
    auth:
      auth_url: 
   
      username: 
   
      password: 
   
      user_domain_name: 
   
      project_name: 
   
      project_domain_name: 
   
 othercloud:
   auth:
     . . .

Read more about the format of the file and where to place it in openstacksdk docs

Using env var

You can set OS_CLOUD env var to a name of one of the clouds in the clouds.yaml file, which will be then used by plugin:

export OS_CLOUD=mycloud
http -A keystone devstack.local/images/v2/images

Passing cloud name explicitly

Alternatively you can pass the name of the cloud from the clouds.yaml file to use as 'username' to HTTPie:

https -A keystone -a myothercloud images.othercloud.com/v2/images

Using service type instead of full service URL

This plugin can also simplify working with OpenStack APIs by allowing you to specify only the service type instead of full URL, e.g

https -A keystone compute/servers

Under the hood, the plugin will check if there's any service in the OpenStack service catalog of your cloud that has the service type as specified in the first part (netloc) of your URL, and replace this first path with endpoint URL for this service as defined in the catalog for the region and endpoint type (interface) as set in your clouds.yaml.

Note on API versions

Services in the OpenStack catalog can be versioned and unversioned. In the case of an unversioned endpoint, you will have to provide the version in your URL explicitly, for example:

• Image service has catalog entry as "https://glance.mycloud.com" To list images using v2 images API, you will have to call image/v2/images URL with HTTPie.
• Compute service usually has catalog entry that is both versioned and also contains the OpenStack project UUID the request is scoped to, like "https://nova.mycloud.com/v2.1/1234567890absdef1234567890absdef". In this case you should simply call HTTPie with e.g. compute/servers URL to list servers.

Limitations

If you are using cloud that needs custom CA bundle file to verify the TLS connection, you will still have to pass it explicitly to HTTPie even if it is already set in the clouds.yaml file.

TODO

• for password-like auth type, check that the password is provided in the clouds.yaml and prompt for password if it is not provided as "password" to HTTPie.