How I Got OpenStack Keystone Running on Windows: A Collection of Hacks

Introduction Some projects are born from a simple question: "Will it work?" This is one of them. OpenStack Keystone — the OpenStack cloud identity and authentication service — was designed, developed, and tested exclusively on Linux. The official documentation doesn't even mention Windows to advise against it. It simply doesn't exist in that context. And yet, here we are. What initially seemed like a curious experiment turned into a journey through the bowels of Python, the hidden assumptions of