.. Copyright 2011-2012 OpenStack Foundation All Rights Reserved. Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License. ======================== Developing with Keystone ======================== Setup ----- Get your development environment set up according to :doc:`setup`. The instructions from here will assume that you have installed Keystone into a virtualenv. If you chose not to, simply exclude "tools/with_venv.sh" from the example commands below. Configuring Keystone -------------------- Keystone requires a configuration file. There is a sample configuration file that can be used to get started: .. code-block:: bash $ cp etc/keystone.conf.sample etc/keystone.conf The defaults are enough to get you going, but you can make any changes if needed. Running Keystone ---------------- To run the Keystone Admin and API server instances, use: .. code-block:: bash $ tools/with_venv.sh bin/keystone-all This runs Keystone with the configuration the etc/ directory of the project. See :doc:`configuration` for details on how Keystone is configured. By default, Keystone is configured with SQL backends. Interacting with Keystone ------------------------- You can interact with Keystone through the command line using :doc:`man/keystone-manage` which allows you to initialize keystone, etc. You can also interact with Keystone through its REST API. There is a Python Keystone client library `python-keystoneclient`_ which interacts exclusively through the REST API, and which Keystone itself uses to provide its command-line interface. When initially getting set up, after you've configured which databases to use, you're probably going to need to run the following to your database schema in place: .. code-block:: bash $ bin/keystone-manage db_sync .. _`python-keystoneclient`: https://github.com/openstack/python-keystoneclient If the above commands result in a ``KeyError``, or they fail on a ``.pyc`` file with the message, ``You can only have one Python script per version``, then it is possible that there are out-of-date compiled Python bytecode files in the Keystone directory tree that are causing problems. This can occur if you have previously installed and ran older versions of Keystone. These out-of-date files can be easily removed by running a command like the following from the Keystone root project directory: .. code-block:: bash $ find . -name "*.pyc" -delete Database Schema Migrations -------------------------- Keystone uses SQLAlchemy-migrate_ to migrate the SQL database between revisions. For core components, the migrations are kept in a central repository under ``keystone/common/sql/migrate_repo``. .. _SQLAlchemy-migrate: http://code.google.com/p/sqlalchemy-migrate/ Extensions should be created as directories under ``keystone/contrib``. An extension that requires SQL migrations should not change the common repository, but should instead have its own repository. This repository must be in the extension's directory in ``keystone/contrib//migrate_repo``. In addition, it needs a subdirectory named ``versions``. For example, if the extension name is ``my_extension`` then the directory structure would be ``keystone/contrib/my_extension/migrate_repo/versions/``. For the migration to work, both the ``migrate_repo`` and ``versions`` subdirectories must have ``__init__.py`` files. SQLAlchemy-migrate will look for a configuration file in the ``migrate_repo`` named ``migrate.cfg``. This conforms to a key/value `ini` file format. A sample configuration file with the minimal set of values is:: [db_settings] repository_id=my_extension version_table=migrate_version required_dbs=[] The directory ``keystone/contrib/example`` contains a sample extension migration. Migrations must be explicitly run for each extension individually. To run a migration for a specific extension, simply run: .. code-block:: bash $ keystone-manage db_sync --extension Initial Sample Data ------------------- There is an included script which is helpful in setting up some initial sample data for use with keystone: .. code-block:: bash $ OS_SERVICE_TOKEN=ADMIN tools/with_venv.sh tools/sample_data.sh Notice it requires a service token read from an environment variable for authentication. The default value "ADMIN" is from the ``admin_token`` option in the ``[DEFAULT]`` section in ``etc/keystone.conf``. Once run, you can see the sample data that has been created by using the `python-keystoneclient`_ command-line interface: .. code-block:: bash $ tools/with_venv.sh keystone --os-token ADMIN --os-endpoint http://127.0.0.1:35357/v2.0/ user-list Filtering responsibilities between controllers and drivers ---------------------------------------------------------- Keystone supports the specification of filtering on list queries as part of the v3 identity API. By default these queries are satisfied in the controller class when a controller calls the ``wrap_collection`` method at the end of a ``list_{entity}`` method. However, to enable optimum performance, any driver can implement some or all of the specified filters (for example, by adding filtering to the generated SQL statements to generate the list). The communication of the filter details between the controller level and its drivers is handled by the passing of a reference to a Hints object, which is a list of dicts describing the filters. A driver that satisfies a filter must delete the filter from the Hints object so that when it is returned to the controller level, it knows to only execute any unsatisfied filters. The contract for a driver for ``list_{entity}`` methods is therefore: * It MUST return a list of entities of the specified type * It MAY either just return all such entities, or alternatively reduce the list by filtering for one or more of the specified filters in the passed Hints reference, and removing any such satisfied filters. An exception to this is that for identity drivers that support domains, then they should at least support filtering by domain_id. Entity list truncation by drivers --------------------------------- Keystone supports the ability for a deployment to restrict the number of entries returned from ``list_{entity}`` methods, typically to prevent poorly formed searches (e.g. without sufficient filters) from becoming a performance issue. These limits are set in the configuration file, either for a specific driver or across all drivers. These limits are read at the Manager level and passed into individual drivers as part of the Hints list object. A driver should try and honor any such limit if possible, but if it is unable to do so then it may ignore it (and the truncation of the returned list of entities will happen at the controller level). Identity entity ID management between controllers and drivers ------------------------------------------------------------- Keystone supports the option of having domain-specific backends for the identity driver (i.e. for user and group storage), allowing, for example, a different LDAP server for each domain. To ensure that Keystone can determine to which backend it should route an API call, starting with Juno, the identity manager will, provided that domain-specific backends are enabled, build on-the-fly a persistent mapping table between Keystone Public IDs that are presented to the controller and the domain that holds the entity, along with whatever local ID is understood by the driver. This hides, for instance, the LDAP specifics of whatever ID is being used. To ensure backward compatibility, the default configuration of either a single SQL or LDAP backend for Identity will not use the mapping table, meaning that public facing IDs will be the unchanged. If keeping these IDs the same for the default LDAP backend is not required, then setting the configuration variable ``backward_compatible_ids`` to ``False`` will enable the mapping for the default LDAP driver, hence hiding the LDAP specifics of the IDs being used. Testing ------- Running Tests ============= Before running tests, you should have ``tox`` installed and available in your environment (in addition to the other external dependencies in :doc:`setup`): .. code-block:: bash $ pip install tox .. NOTE:: You may need to perform both the above operation and the next inside a python virtualenv, or prefix the above command with ``sudo``, depending on your preference. To execute the full suite of tests maintained within Keystone, simply run: .. code-block:: bash $ tox This iterates over multiple configuration variations, and uses external projects to do light integration testing to verify the Identity API against other projects. .. NOTE:: The first time you run ``tox``, it will take additional time to build virtualenvs. You can later use the ``-r`` option with ``tox`` to rebuild your virtualenv in a similar manner. To run tests for one or more specific test environments (for example, the most common configuration of Python 2.7 and PEP-8), list the environments with the ``-e`` option, separated by spaces: .. code-block:: bash $ tox -e py27,pep8 See ``tox.ini`` for the full list of available test environments. Running with PDB ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Using PDB breakpoints with tox and testr normally doesn't work since the tests just fail with a BdbQuit exception rather than stopping at the breakpoint. To run with PDB breakpoints during testing, use the ``debug`` tox environment rather than ``py27``. Here's an example, passing the name of a test since you'll normally only want to run the test that hits your breakpoint: .. code-block:: bash $ tox -e debug keystone.tests.test_auth.AuthWithToken.test_belongs_to For reference, the ``debug`` tox environment implements the instructions here: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Testr#Debugging_.28pdb.29_Tests Disabling Stream Capture ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The stdout, stderr and log messages generated during a test are captured and in the event of a test failure those streams will be printed to the terminal along with the traceback. The data is discarded for passing tests. Each stream has an environment variable that can be used to force captured data to be discarded even if the test fails: `OS_STDOUT_CAPTURE` for stdout, `OS_STDERR_CAPTURE` for stderr and `OS_LOG_CAPTURE` for logging. If the value of the environment variable is not one of (True, true, 1, yes) the stream will be discarded. All three variables default to 1. For example, to discard logging data during a test run: .. code-block:: bash $ OS_LOG_CAPTURE=0 tox -e py27 Test Structure ============== Not all of the tests in the tests directory are strictly unit tests. Keystone intentionally includes tests that run the service locally and drives the entire configuration to achieve basic functional testing. For the functional tests, an in-memory key-value store is used to keep the tests fast. Within the tests directory, the general structure of the tests is a basic set of tests represented under a test class, and then subclasses of those tests under other classes with different configurations to drive different backends through the APIs. For example, ``test_backend.py`` has a sequence of tests under the class ``IdentityTests`` that will work with the default drivers as configured in this projects etc/ directory. ``test_backend_sql.py`` subclasses those tests, changing the configuration by overriding with configuration files stored in the tests directory aimed at enabling the SQL backend for the Identity module. Likewise, ``test_v2_keystoneclient.py`` takes advantage of the tests written against ``KeystoneClientTests`` to verify the same tests function through different drivers and releases of the Keystone client. The class ``CompatTestCase`` does the work of checking out a specific version of python-keystoneclient, and then verifying it against a temporarily running local instance to explicitly verify basic functional testing across the API. Testing Schema Migrations ========================= The application of schema migrations can be tested using SQLAlchemy Migrate’s built-in test runner, one migration at a time. .. WARNING:: This may leave your database in an inconsistent state; attempt this in non-production environments only! This is useful for testing the *next* migration in sequence (both forward & backward) in a database under version control: .. code-block:: bash $ python keystone/common/sql/migrate_repo/manage.py test \ --url=sqlite:///test.db \ --repository=keystone/common/sql/migrate_repo/ This command references to a SQLite database (test.db) to be used. Depending on the migration, this command alone does not make assertions as to the integrity of your data during migration. Writing Tests ============= To add tests covering all drivers, update the relevant base test class (``test_backend.py``, ``test_legacy_compat.py``, and ``test_keystoneclient.py``). To add new drivers, subclass the ``test_backend.py`` (look towards ``test_backend_sql.py`` or ``test_backend_kvs.py`` for examples) and update the configuration of the test class in ``setUp()``. Further Testing =============== devstack_ is the *best* way to quickly deploy Keystone with the rest of the OpenStack universe and should be critical step in your development workflow! You may also be interested in either the `OpenStack Continuous Integration Infrastructure`_ or the `OpenStack Integration Testing Project`_. .. _devstack: http://devstack.org/ .. _OpenStack Continuous Integration Infrastructure: http://ci.openstack.org .. _OpenStack Integration Testing Project: https://github.com/openstack/tempest LDAP Tests ========== LDAP has a fake backend that performs rudimentary operations. If you are building more significant LDAP functionality, you should test against a live LDAP server. Devstack has an option to set up a directory server for Keystone to use. Add ldap to the ``ENABLED_SERVICES`` environment variable, and set environment variables ``KEYSTONE_IDENTITY_BACKEND=ldap`` and ``KEYSTONE_CLEAR_LDAP=yes`` in your ``localrc`` file. The unit tests can be run against a live server with ``keystone/tests/test_ldap_livetest.py`` and ``keystone/tests/test_ldap_pool_livetest.py``. The default password is ``test`` but if you have installed devstack with a different LDAP password, modify the file ``keystone/tests/config_files/backend_liveldap.conf`` and ``keystone/tests/config_files/backend_pool_liveldap.conf`` to reflect your password. .. NOTE:: To run the live tests you need to set the environment variable ``ENABLE_LDAP_LIVE_TEST`` to a non-negative value. "Work in progress" Tests ======================== Work in progress (WIP) tests are very useful in a variety of situations including: * During a TDD process they can be used to add tests to a review while they are not yet working and will not cause test failures. (They should be removed before the final merge.) * Often bug reports include small snippets of code to show broken behaviors. Some of these can be converted into WIP tests that can later be worked on by a developer. This allows us to take code that can be used to catch bug regressions and commit it before any code is written. The ``keystone.tests.util.wip`` decorator can be used to mark a test as WIP. A WIP test will always be run. If the test fails then a TestSkipped exception is raised because we expect the test to fail. We do not pass the test in this case so that it doesn't count toward the number of successfully run tests. If the test passes an AssertionError exception is raised so that the developer knows they made the test pass. This is a reminder to remove the decorator. The ``wip`` decorator requires that the author provides a message. This message is important because it will tell other developers why this test is marked as a work in progress. Reviewers will require that these messages are descriptive and accurate. .. NOTE:: The ``wip`` decorator is not a replacement for skipping tests. .. code-block:: python @wip('waiting on bug #000000') def test(): pass Generating Updated Sample Config File ------------------------------------- Keystone's sample configuration file ``etc/keystone.conf.sample`` is automatically generated based upon all of the options available within Keystone. These options are sourced from the many files around Keystone as well as some external libraries. If new options are added, primarily located in ``keystone.common.config``, a new sample configuration file needs to be generated. Generating a new sample configuration to be included in a commit run: .. code-block:: bash $ tox -esample_config -r The tox command will place an updated sample config in ``etc/keystone.conf.sample``. If there is a new external library (e.g. ``oslo.messaging``) that utilizes the ``oslo.config`` package for configuration, it can be added to the list of libraries found in ``tools/config/oslo.config.generator.rc``. Translated responses -------------------- The Keystone server can provide error responses translated into the language in the ``Accept-Language`` header of the request. In order to test this in your development environment, there's a couple of things you need to do. 1. Build the message files. Run the following command in your keystone directory: .. code-block:: bash $ python setup.py compile_catalog This will generate .mo files like keystone/locale/[lang]/LC_MESSAGES/[lang].mo 2. When running Keystone, set the ``KEYSTONE_LOCALEDIR`` environment variable to the keystone/locale directory. For example: .. code-block:: bash $ KEYSTONE_LOCALEDIR=/opt/stack/keystone/keystone/locale keystone-all Now you can get a translated error response: .. code-block:: bash $ curl -s -H "Accept-Language: zh" http://localhost:5000/notapath | python -mjson.tool { "error": { "code": 404, "message": "\u627e\u4e0d\u5230\u8cc7\u6e90\u3002", "title": "Not Found" } } Caching Layer ------------- The caching layer is designed to be applied to any ``manager`` object within Keystone via the use of the ``on_arguments`` decorator provided in the ``keystone.common.cache`` module. This decorator leverages `dogpile.cache`_ caching system to provide a flexible caching backend. It is recommended that each of the managers have an independent toggle within the config file to enable caching. The easiest method to utilize the toggle within the configuration file is to define a ``caching`` boolean option within that manager's configuration section (e.g. ``identity``). Once that option is defined you can pass function to the ``on_arguments`` decorator with the named argument ``should_cache_fn``. In the ``keystone.common.cache`` module, there is a function called ``should_cache_fn``, which will provide a reference, to a function, that will consult the global cache ``enabled`` option as well as the specific manager's caching enable toggle. .. NOTE:: If a section-specific boolean option is not defined in the config section specified when calling ``should_cache_fn``, the returned function reference will default to enabling caching for that ``manager``. Example use of cache and ``should_cache_fn`` (in this example, ``token`` is the manager): .. code-block:: python from keystone.common import cache SHOULD_CACHE = cache.should_cache_fn('token') @cache.on_arguments(should_cache_fn=SHOULD_CACHE) def cacheable_function(arg1, arg2, arg3): ... return some_value With the above example, each call to the ``cacheable_function`` would check to see if the arguments passed to it matched a currently valid cached item. If the return value was cached, the caching layer would return the cached value; if the return value was not cached, the caching layer would call the function, pass the value to the ``SHOULD_CACHE`` function reference, which would then determine if caching was globally enabled and enabled for the ``token`` manager. If either caching toggle is disabled, the value is returned but not cached. It is recommended that each of the managers have an independent configurable time-to-live (TTL). If a configurable TTL has been defined for the manager configuration section, it is possible to pass it to the ``cache.on_arguments`` decorator with the named-argument ``expiration_time``. For consistency, it is recommended that this option be called ``cache_time`` and default to ``None``. If the ``expiration_time`` argument passed to the decorator is set to ``None``, the expiration time will be set to the global default (``expiration_time`` option in the ``[cache]`` configuration section. Example of using a section specific ``cache_time`` (in this example, ``identity`` is the manager): .. code-block:: python from keystone.common import cache SHOULD_CACHE = cache.should_cache_fn('identity') @cache.on_arguments(should_cache_fn=SHOULD_CACHE, expiration_time=CONF.identity.cache_time) def cachable_function(arg1, arg2, arg3): ... return some_value For cache invalidation, the ``on_arguments`` decorator will add an ``invalidate`` method (attribute) to your decorated function. To invalidate the cache, you pass the same arguments to the ``invalidate`` method as you would the normal function. Example (using the above cacheable_function): .. code-block:: python def invalidate_cache(arg1, arg2, arg3): cacheable_function.invalidate(arg1, arg2, arg3) .. WARNING:: The ``on_arguments`` decorator does not accept keyword-arguments/named arguments. An exception will be raised if keyword arguments are passed to a caching-decorated function. .. NOTE:: In all cases methods work the same as functions except if you are attempting to invalidate the cache on a decorated bound-method, you need to pass ``self`` to the ``invalidate`` method as the first argument before the arguments. .. _`dogpile.cache`: http://dogpilecache.readthedocs.org/ dogpile.cache based Key-Value-Store (KVS) ----------------------------------------- The ``dogpile.cache`` based KVS system has been designed to allow for flexible stores for the backend of the KVS system. The implementation allows for the use of any normal ``dogpile.cache`` cache backends to be used as a store. All interfacing to the KVS system happens via the ``KeyValueStore`` object located at ``keystone.common.kvs.KeyValueStore``. To utilize the KVS system an instantiation of the ``KeyValueStore`` class is needed. To acquire a KeyValueStore instantiation use the ``keystone.common.kvs.get_key_value_store`` factory function. This factory will either create a new ``KeyValueStore`` object or retrieve the already instantiated ``KeyValueStore`` object by the name passed as an argument. The object must be configured before use. The KVS object will only be retrievable with the ``get_key_value_store`` function while there is an active reference outside of the registry. Once all references have been removed the object is gone (the registry uses a ``weakref`` to match the object to the name). Example Instantiation and Configuration: .. code-block:: python kvs_store = kvs.get_key_value_store('TestKVSRegion') kvs_store.configure('openstack.kvs.Memory', ...) Any keyword arguments passed to the configure method that are not defined as part of the KeyValueStore object configuration are passed to the backend for further configuration (e.g. memcached servers, lock_timeout, etc). The memcached backend uses the Keystone manager mechanism to support the use of any of the provided memcached backends (``bmemcached``, ``pylibmc``, and basic ``memcached``). By default the ``memcached`` backend is used. Currently the Memcache URLs come from the ``servers`` option in the ``[memcache]`` configuration section of the Keystone config. The following is an example showing how to configure the KVS system to use a KeyValueStore object named "TestKVSRegion" and a specific Memcached driver: .. code-block:: python kvs_store = kvs.get_key_value_store('TestKVSRegion') kvs_store.configure('openstack.kvs.Memcached', memcached_backend='Memcached') The memcached backend supports a mechanism to supply an explicit TTL (in seconds) to all keys set via the KVS object. This is accomplished by passing the argument ``memcached_expire_time`` as a keyword argument to the ``configure`` method. Passing the ``memcache_expire_time`` argument will cause the ``time`` argument to be added to all ``set`` and ``set_multi`` calls performed by the memcached client. ``memcached_expire_time`` is an argument exclusive to the memcached dogpile backend, and will be ignored if passed to another backend: .. code-block:: python kvs_store.configure('openstack.kvs.Memcached', memcached_backend='Memcached', memcached_expire_time=86400) If an explicit TTL is configured via the ``memcached_expire_time`` argument, it is possible to exempt specific keys from receiving the TTL by passing the argument ``no_expiry_keys`` (list) as a keyword argument to the ``configure`` method. ``no_expiry_keys`` should be supported by all OpenStack-specific dogpile backends (memcached) that have the ability to set an explicit TTL: .. code-block:: python kvs_store.configure('openstack.kvs.Memcached', memcached_backend='Memcached', memcached_expire_time=86400, no_expiry_keys=['key', 'second_key', ...]) .. NOTE:: For the non-expiring keys functionality to work, the backend must support the ability for the region to set the key_mangler on it and have the attribute ``raw_no_expiry_keys``. In most cases, support for setting the key_mangler on the backend is handled by allowing the region object to set the ``key_mangler`` attribute on the backend. The ``raw_no_expiry_keys`` attribute is expected to be used to hold the values of the keyword argument ``no_expiry_keys`` prior to hashing. It is the responsibility of the backend to use these raw values to determine if a key should be exempt from expiring and not set the TTL on the non-expiring keys when the ``set`` or ``set_multi`` methods are called. Typically the key will be hashed by the region using its key_mangler method before being passed to the backend to set the value in the KeyValueStore. This means that in most cases, the backend will need to either pre-compute the hashed versions of the keys (when the key_mangler is set) and store a cached copy, or hash each item in the ``raw_no_expiry_keys`` attribute on each call to ``.set()`` and ``.set_multi()``. The ``memcached`` backend handles this hashing and caching of the keys by utilizing an ``@property`` method for the ``.key_mangler`` attribute on the backend and utilizing the associated ``.settr()`` method to front-load the hashing work at attribute set time. Once a KVS object has been instantiated the method of interacting is the same as most memcache implementations: .. code-block:: python kvs_store = kvs.get_key_value_store('TestKVSRegion') kvs_store.configure(...) # Set a Value kvs_store.set(, ) # Retrieve a value: retrieved_value = kvs_store.get() # Delete a key/value pair: kvs_store.delete() # multi-get: kvs_store.get_multi([, , ...]) # multi-set: kvs_store.set_multi(dict(=, =, ...)) # multi-delete kvs_store.delete_multi([, , ...]) There is a global configuration option to be aware of (that can be set in the ``[kvs]`` section of the Keystone configuration file): ``enable_key_mangler`` can be set top false, disabling the use of key_manglers (modification of the key when saving to the backend to help prevent collisions or exceeding key size limits with memcached). .. NOTE:: The ``enable_key_mangler`` option in the ``[kvs]`` section of the Keystone configuration file is not the same option (and does not affect the cache-layer key manglers) from the option in the ``[cache]`` section of the configuration file. Similarly the ``[cache]`` section options relating to key manglers has no bearing on the ``[kvs]`` objects. .. WARNING:: Setting the ``enable_key_mangler`` option to False can have detrimental effects on the KeyValueStore backend. It is recommended that this value is not set to False except for debugging issues with the ``dogpile.cache`` backend itself. Any backends that are to be used with the ``KeyValueStore`` system need to be registered with dogpile. For in-tree/provided backends, the registration should occur in ``keystone/common/kvs/__init__.py``. For backends that are developed out of tree, the location should be added to the ``backends`` option in the ``[kvs]`` section of the Keystone configuration:: [kvs] backends = backend_module1.backend_class1,backend_module2.backend_class2 All registered backends will receive the "short name" of "openstack.kvs." for use in the ``configure`` method on the ``KeyValueStore`` object. The ```` of a backend must be globally unique. dogpile.cache based MongoDB (NoSQL) backend -------------------------------------------- The ``dogpile.cache`` based MongoDB backend implementation allows for various MongoDB configurations, e.g., standalone, a replica set, sharded replicas, with or without SSL, use of TTL type collections, etc. Example of typical configuration for MongoDB backend: .. code-block:: python from dogpile.cache import region arguments = { 'db_hosts': 'localhost:27017', 'db_name': 'ks_cache', 'cache_collection': 'cache', 'username': 'test_user', 'password': 'test_password', # optional arguments 'son_manipulator': 'my_son_manipulator_impl' } region.make_region().configure('keystone.cache.mongo', arguments=arguments) The optional `son_manipulator` is used to manipulate custom data type while its saved in or retrieved from MongoDB. If the dogpile cached values contain built-in data types and no custom classes, then the provided implementation class is sufficient. For further details, refer http://api.mongodb.org/python/current/examples/custom_type.html#automatic-encoding-and-decoding Similar to other backends, this backend can be added via Keystone configuration in ``keystone.conf``:: [cache] # Global cache functionality toggle. enabled = True # Referring to specific cache backend backend = keystone.cache.mongo # Backend specific configuration arguments backend_argument = db_hosts:localhost:27017 backend_argument = db_name:ks_cache backend_argument = cache_collection:cache backend_argument = username:test_user backend_argument = password:test_password This backend is registered in ``keystone.common.cache.core`` module. So, its usage is similar to other dogpile caching backends as it implements the same dogpile APIs. Building the Documentation -------------------------- The documentation is generated with Sphinx using the tox command. To create HTML docs and man pages: .. code-block:: bash $ tox -e docs The results are in the docs/build/html and docs/build/man directories respectively.