Did you find the solution for this ? I was facing the same missing auth_plugin error in nova-conductor.log. I am a noob myself. Nova-conductor and scheduler services weren't starting. I am installing Antelope on Ubuntu 22.04.
Error
2023-11-09 16:38:53.004 39172 ERROR nova.conductor.manager [-] Fatal error initializing placement client; config is incorrect or incomplete: An auth plugin is required to determine endpoint URL: keystoneauth1.exceptions.auth_plugins.MissingAuthPlugin: An auth plugin is required to determine endpoint URL
2023-11-09 16:38:53.004 39172 CRITICAL nova [-] Unhandled error: keystoneauth1.exceptions.auth_plugins.MissingAuthPlugin: An auth plugin is required to determine endpoint URL
https://docs.openstack.org/nova/2023.2/install/controller-install-rdo.html,
As per this link, I put the placement section in the nova-api.conf file and that fixed it.
systemctl -l | grep nova
nova-api.service loaded active running OpenStack Compute API
nova-conductor.service loaded active running OpenStack Compute Conductor
nova-novncproxy.service loaded active running OpenStack Compute novncproxy
nova-scheduler.service loaded active running OpenStack Compute Scheduler
I can query the compute api with openstack compute service list
Hope this helps.
Best,
J