LDAP no op charm

[Mark Shuttleworth]

On 26/09/16 09:01, Tom Barber wrote:
> Okay so I discussed this with a few folk in Pasadena but I think its
> worth documenting on the list to find out if something exists in
> secret, or if there is any technical reason why I shouldn't write this.
>
> Taking some inspiration  from  the Nagios External Master charm, it
> strikes me as a good idea to have an LDAP interface and LDAP no op
> charm that can allow charms to connect to external  LDAP  sources with
> minimal effort. 
>
> I have a long term goal to charm up openldap or whatever but in the
> short term, it also strikes me that a lot of implementing companies
> would already have an AD server or OpenLDAP server running somewhere
> that they wouldn't want to migrate which is completely understandable.
> So an LDAP charm that just tells charms the useful information like
> url, port, ssl, basedn, search mask etc would be a good way to let
> Saiku, Gitlab, Hadoop, HTTPD etc hook up to corporate LDAP servers to
> provide proper user management. Similarly, if I was looking to setup a
> scalable PAAS/SAAS setup I would want to centralise my stuff instead
> of having a bunch of disparate applications.
>
> Comments and suggestions please.

Sounds great - we would call this a proxy charm - it doesn't implement
the functionality but it contains all the handshaking to connect you to
an established service that does.

Mark