OpenStack Key Manager (barbican)
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   :alt: Barbican logo
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What is Barbican?
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Barbican is the OpenStack Key Manager service. It provides secure storage,
provisioning and management of secret data.  This includes keying material
such as Symmetric Keys, Asymmetric Keys, Certificates and raw binary data.

API Guide
---------

If you're trying to learn how to use barbican, you can start by reading about
`Secrets in the Barbican API Guide <https://docs.openstack.org/api-guide/key-manager/secrets.html>`__.

Once you're comfortable working with secrets you can dig into the rest of the
API.

.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 2

   admin/index
   cli/index
   install/index
   configuration/index
   contributor/index

.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 2

   api/index.rst

Sample Files
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.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 2

   sample_config
   sample_policy



Indices and tables
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* :ref:`genindex`
* :ref:`modindex`
* :ref:`search`
