All,

The feature is ready for your review, please see:

https://github.com/apache/cloudstack/pull/2239


Thanks and regards.

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From: Rohit Yadav <rohit.ya...@shapeblue.com>
Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2017 12:59:02 PM
To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org
Subject: [DISCUSS][SECURITY] Feature: Secure CloudStack Communications

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
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