On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 08:23:23PM -0400, Russell Bryant wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 8:15 PM, Ben Pfaff <b...@ovn.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 07:56:51PM -0400, Russell Bryant wrote:
> > > On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 2:40 PM, Ben Pfaff <b...@ovn.org> wrote:
> > > > I'm starting to get really disturbed that ssl isn't the default here.
> > >
> > > We need to add SSL config to these tables.
> >
> > I'm not sure that it makes sense to have SSL configuration in
> > OVN_Northbound or OVN_Southbound, because the clients would need to
> > connect to the databases before they could obtain the configuration.
> > I'd guess that SSL configuration would have to be populated to each
> > hypervisor as a separate step before it joins OVN for the first time.
> >
> > Or maybe I misunderstand your point.
> >
> 
> I honestly haven't thought through this in enough detail, but:
> 
> I was talking about the server side config.  ovsdb-server for OVS is
> started with:
> 
>          set "$@" --private-key=db:Open_vSwitch,SSL,private_key
>          set "$@" --certificate=db:Open_vSwitch,SSL,certificate
>          set "$@" --bootstrap-ca-cert=db:Open_vSwitch,SSL,ca_cert
> 
> I assumed we might add the same SSL table to the OVN dbs.  Then again, it
> seems kind of awkward to me to have this in the DB.  I'd expect it to be
> something only configured locally.

Right, it's a little different because the Open_vSwitch schema that
ovs-vswitchd uses is for a single machine only and primarily (though not
exclusively) accessed from that machine.

> Anyway, I'd love to see this get sorted out and have SSL everywhere the
> default.

I agree.
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