All,
With upcoming features such as the application service (container service), and existing features such as SAML, they all need some sort of certificate management and the idea with the proposed feature is to build a pluggable certificate authority manager (CA Manager). I would like to kick an initial discussion around how we can secure components of CloudStacks. A CA service/manager that can create/provision/deploy certificates providing both automated and semi-automated ways for deploying/setup of certificates using in-band (ssh, command-answer pattern) and out-of-band (ssh, ansible, chef etc) to CloudStack services (such as systemvm agents, KVM agents, possible webservices running in systemvms, VRs etc). While we do have some APIs and mechanisms to secure user/external facing services where we can use custom or failsafe SSL/TLS certificates, it's far from a complete solution. The present communications between CloudStack management server, its peers and agents (served on port 8250) is one way SSL handshaked connection, is not authenticated while may be secure by insecure certificates. As a first step, it is proposed to create a general purpose pluggable CA service with a default plugin implementation where CloudStack becomes a Root-CA and can issue self-signed certificates. Such certificates may be consumed by CloudStack agents (CPVM/SSVM/KVM) and other components/services (such as SAML, container services etc). The pluggable CA framework should allow developers to extend the functionality by implementing provider plugins that may work with other CA providers such as LetsEncrypt, an existing/internal CA infrastructure, or other certificate vendors. Please see an initial FS and ideas on implementation in the following FS. Looking forward to your feedback. FS: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/Secure+Agent+Communications JIRA: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CLOUDSTACK-9993 Regards. rohit.ya...@shapeblue.com www.shapeblue.com 53 Chandos Place, Covent Garden, London WC2N 4HSUK @shapeblue
