Create the service entity and API endpoint After you create tenants, users, and roles, you must create the service entity and API endpoint for the Identity service. To configure prerequisites Set the OS_SERVICE_TOKEN and OS_SERVICE_ENDPOINT environment variables, as described in . To create the service entity and API endpoint The Identity service manages a catalog of services in your OpenStack environment. Services use this catalog to locate other services in your environment. Create the service entity for the Identity service: $ keystone service-create --name keystone --type identity \ --description="OpenStack Identity" +-------------+----------------------------------+ | Property | Value | +-------------+----------------------------------+ | description | OpenStack Identity | | id | 15c11a23667e427e91bc31335b45f4bd | | name | keystone | | type | identity | +-------------+----------------------------------+ Because OpenStack generates IDs dynamically, you will see different values from this example command output. The Identity service manages a catalog of API endpoints associated with the services in your OpenStack environment. Services use this catalog to determine how to communicate with other services in your environment. OpenStack provides three API endpoint variations for each service: admin, internal, and public. In a production environment, the variants might reside on separate networks that service different types of users for security reasons. For simplicity, this configuration uses the management network for all variations. Create the API endpoint for the Identity service: $ keystone endpoint-create \ --service-id=$(keystone service-list | awk '/ identity / {print $2}') \ --publicurl=http://controller:5000/v2.0 \ --internalurl=http://controller:5000/v2.0 \ --adminurl=http://controller:35357/v2.0 +-------------+----------------------------------+ | Property | Value | +-------------+----------------------------------+ | adminurl | http://controller:35357/v2.0 | | id | 11f9c625a3b94a3f8e66bf4e5de2679f | | internalurl | http://controller:5000/v2.0 | | publicurl | http://controller:5000/v2.0 | | region | regionOne | | service_id | 15c11a23667e427e91bc31335b45f4bd | +-------------+----------------------------------+ This command references the ID of the service that you created in the previous step. Each service that you add to your OpenStack environment requires adding information such as API endpoints to the Identity service. The sections of this guide that cover service installation include steps to add the appropriate information to the Identity service.