Hi,

Quoting Paul Browne (pf...@cam.ac.uk):
> On Wed, 29 Jan 2020 at 16:52, Matthew Vernon <m...@sanger.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > On 29/01/2020 16:40, Paul Browne wrote:
> >
> > > Recently we deployed a brand new Stein cluster however, and I'm curious
> > > whether the idea of pointing the new OpenStack cluster at the same RBD
> > > pools for Cinder/Glance/Nova as the Luminous cluster would be considered
> > > bad practice, or even potentially dangerous.
> >
> > I think that would be pretty risky - here we have a Ceph cluster that
> > provides backing for our OpenStacks, and each OpenStack has its own set
> > of pools -metrics,-images,-volumes,-vms (and its own credential).
> >
> 
> Hi Matthew,
> 
> I think I've come around to that thinking now too.
> 
> Despite using different keys, the 2 sets of clients in different OpenStack
> clusters would require the same capabilities on the shared pools, which
> widens the blast radius a bit too far for me, I think (unless there were
> also a capability to restrict the sets of clients' keys to specific
> namespaces within the shared pools similar to the caps given out to CephFS
> clients)

This is supported since Nautilus: namespace support for librbd. I do
not now however if there is already support for this in
qemu/libvirt/openstack. OpenNebula support is pending [1].

Gr. Stefan

[1]: https://github.com/OpenNebula/one/issues/3141

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