IdP metadata config docs

[Tom Scavo]

On Mon, Jun 11, 2018 at 11:18 AM, Greg Haverkamp <gahaverkamp at lbl.gov> wrote:
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> On Mon, Jun 11, 2018 at 7:53 AM Tom Scavo <trscavo at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> 2. Is anyone pulling metadata from a git server (such as GitHub)? If
>> so, can you briefly describe your use case?
>
> We do.
>
> I guess the use case seems obvious to me, so hopefully I’m not being too
> pedantic.  We keep the metadata in a git repository hosted on Bitbucket.
> This allows us to hunt down errors, as well as to distribute updates easily.
> Our IdP’s do a pull from their remotes every 15 minutes.

I don't know much about Bitbucket. Can you provide a metadata
configuration snippet or at least a brief description of the config
you're using?

> So, we can edit in
> our local repo, xmllint the metadata file, commit, and push.  Then we tell
> folks their service will be ready within 20 minutes.  (Up to 15 for the next
> pull, up to 5 for the IdP to refresh.)

Thanks Greg. This is very helpful.

Tom