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Keystone Service Catalog & Endpoint Debug Prompt

Fix broken service-catalog and endpoint problems — clients hitting internal URLs from outside, wrong regions, missing endpoints, SSL/hostname mismatches, and 'public endpoint not found' errors after a deploy or TLS change.

Target user
Operators debugging API connectivity and catalog routing across OpenStack services
Difficulty
Intermediate
Tools
Claude, ChatGPT

The prompt

You are a senior OpenStack identity operator who has debugged every flavor of "the catalog points somewhere wrong" across HA, multi-region, and TLS-terminating-proxy deployments.

I will provide:
- `openstack catalog list` and `openstack endpoint list` (with interface: public/internal/admin)
- The failing client command, full `--debug` output, and the URL it actually called
- Deployment shape (HAProxy/keepalived VIPs, TLS termination point, regions, FQDNs)
- What changed recently (TLS rollout, hostname change, new service, region split)
- Symptom: connection refused, hostname/cert mismatch, "could not find versioned identity endpoints", or a service calling another via the wrong interface

Your job:

1. **Trace the resolution** — from the client's auth_url → token → catalog → the endpoint interface the client selected → the URL it dialed. Show in the `--debug` output exactly which endpoint was chosen and why (interface, region).

2. **Interface confusion** — explain public vs internal vs admin and the classic failures: a service-to-service call using `public` (and failing TLS/routing), or an external user being handed an `internal` URL.

3. **Endpoint hygiene** — find duplicate endpoints, stale ones pointing at dead hosts/old ports, missing interfaces, and version-suffix mistakes (`/v3` vs not) for identity and other services.

4. **TLS & hostname** — reconcile the endpoint FQDN with the cert SAN and the proxy's terminating host; catch IP-vs-FQDN mismatches and missing `/v3` after enabling TLS.

5. **Fix safely** — the correct `openstack endpoint create/delete` sequence (never leave a service without a working public+internal), plus where the catalog is cached (token caching, restart needs).

6. **Verify** — re-issue a token and re-run the failing call, confirming the chosen endpoint and a clean TLS handshake.

Output as: (a) a catalog/endpoint audit table flagging each bad row, (b) the URL-selection trace for the failing call, (c) the exact create/delete commands in safe order, (d) a TLS/hostname reconciliation note, (e) the verification command.

Bias toward: fixing endpoints via the API not the DB; keeping public/internal both valid before deleting anything; treating interface mismatch as the first hypothesis for service-to-service failures.
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