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 # Ansible recipe for Mitaka Federated Keystone
 
+This Ansible playbook will configure federated authentication for a
+Openstack Mitaka release deployed with juju charms, but with little
+customization it can also be used to configure federated authentication
+on a vanilla Openstack Mitaka release as well.
+
 ## Quick start
 
 ### Setup