Excerpts from Fox, Kevin M's message of 2017-08-04 20:21:19 +0000: > I would really like to see secrets separated from config. Always have... They > are two separate things. > > If nothing else, a separate config file so it can be permissioned differently. > > This could be combined with k8s secrets/configmaps better too. > Or make it much easier to version config in git and have secrets somewhere > else.
Sure. It's already possible today to use multiple configuration files with oslo.config, using either the --config-dir option or by passing multiple --config-file options. Doug > > Thanks, > Kevin > > ________________________________ > From: Raildo Mascena de Sousa Filho [rmasc...@redhat.com] > Sent: Friday, August 04, 2017 12:34 PM > To: openstack-dev@lists.openstack.org > Subject: [openstack-dev] [oslo][oslo.config] Pluggable drivers and protect > plaintext secrets > > Hi all, > > We had a couple of discussions with the Oslo team related to implement > Pluggable drivers for oslo.config[0] and use those feature to implement > support to protect plaintext secret on configuration files[1]. > > In another hand, due the containerized support on OpenStack services, we have > a community effort to implement a k8s ConfigMap support[2][3], which might > make us step back and consider how secret management will work, since the > config data will need to go into the configmap *before* the container is > launched. > > So, I would like to see what the community think. Should we continue working > on that pluggable drivers and protect plain text secrets support for > oslo.config? Makes sense having a PTG session[4] on Oslo to discuss that > feature? > > Thanks for the feedback in advance. > > Cheers, > > [0] https://review.openstack.org/#/c/454897/ > [1] https://review.openstack.org/#/c/474304/ > [2] > https://github.com/flaper87/keystone-k8s-ansible/blob/6524b768d75a28adf44c74aca77ccf13dd66b1a9/provision-keystone-apb/tasks/main.yaml#L71-L108 > [3] > https://kubernetes.io/docs/<https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/configure-pod-container/configmap/>tasks/configure-pod-container/configmap/<https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/configure-pod-container/configmap/> > [4] https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/oslo-ptg-queens __________________________________________________________________________ OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Unsubscribe: openstack-dev-requ...@lists.openstack.org?subject:unsubscribe http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
