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On Fri, 2017-06-30 at 17:15 +0300, Apollon Oikonomopoulos wrote:
> I would like to update ganeti in Stretch to fix some outstanding issues 
> and to introduce non-DSA SSH key support (see also #863320).
> 
> Regarding SSH key support, Ganeti by default manages node SSH keys at 
> the cluster level. The latest stable releases still rely on DSA keys, 
> which however are deemed weak and are not supported by our OpenSSH 
> server version by default. Upstream has already introduced RSA & ECDSA 
> key support, although it has not been released as part of a stable 
> release in over a year, due to upstream development slowing down. I have 
> thoroughly tested these changes on a couple production clusters I 
> operate myself, as have others and found them to be working in order.

That's a non-trivial patch, as I'm sure you're aware. :-(

> Apart from non-DSA key support, the proposed package fixes a number of 
> issues encountered late in the Stretch freeze phase:
> 
>  - gnt-instance move does not work with stretch's socat version, as the 
>    option specifying the TLS method socat uses has changed format. This 
>    is fixed by removing the argument and letting socat pick the best TLS 
>    method available (which is better than hardcoding the outdated TLS 
>    1.0 anyway).
>  - Instances using external storage cannot be failed over from dead 
>    nodes (#864756). This has been fixed upstream, so we are simply 
>    backporting the relevant commit.

This doesn't look like it's fixed in unstable yet?

>  - The pre-migration hypervisor version compatibility check would always 
>    fail when migrating between different KVM versions in a non-intented 
>    way. Again, we are backporting the relevant upstream fix.

Regards,

Adam

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