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.
If you’re trying to learn how to use barbican, you can start by reading about Secrets in the Barbican API Guide.
Once you’re comfortable working with secrets you can dig into the rest of the API.
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