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Commit 4fbe765c authored by Michael Hanselmann's avatar Michael Hanselmann
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Update document describing cluster security

It may need further updates, but here's a start.

Reviewed-by: ultrotter
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......@@ -12,21 +12,22 @@ you need to be root to run the cluster commands.
Host issues
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For a host on which the Ganeti software has been installed but which has
not been joined in a cluster, there are no changes to the system.
For a host on which the Ganeti software has been installed, but not joined to a
cluster, there are no changes to the system.
For a host that has been joined to the cluster, there are very important
changes:
- the host will have its ssh host key replaced with the one of the
- The host will have its SSH host key replaced with the one of the
cluster (which is the one the initial node had at the cluster
creation)
- root will have added to its authorized_keys file a public key which
grants access to all other nodes in the cluster, and furthermore it
will also get the private part of this key, which will allow it to
login to the other nodes in the cluster (its previous private key
will be backed up)
- the Ganeti node daemon will accept RPC requests from any host which
has the cluster shared secret, and the operations it will do as a
- A new public key will be added to root's authorized_keys file, granting
root access to all nodes of the cluster. The private part of the key
is also distributed to all nodes. Old files are renamed.
- Communication between nodes is encrypted using SSL/TLS. A common
key and certificate combo is shared between all nodes of the cluster.
At this time, no CA is used.
- The Ganeti node daemon will accept RPC requests from any host within the
cluster with the correct certificate, and the operations it will do as a
result of these requests are:
- running commands under the /etc/ganeti/hooks directory
- creating DRBD disks between it and the IP it has been told
......@@ -36,11 +37,11 @@ As you can see, as soon as a node is joined, it becomes equal to all
other nodes in the cluster, and the security of the cluster is
determined by the weakest node.
Note that only the ssh key will allow other machines to run random
Note that only the SSH key will allow other machines to run random
commands on this node; the RPC method will run only:
- well defined commands to create, remove, activate logical volumes,
drbd devices, start/stop instances, etc;
- run ssh commands on other nodes in the cluster, again well-defined
- run SSH commands on other nodes in the cluster, again well-defined
- scripts under the /etc/ganeti/hooks directory
It is therefore important to make sure that the contents of the
......@@ -52,21 +53,34 @@ Cluster issues
As told above, there are multiple ways of communication between cluster
nodes:
- ssh-based, for high-volume traffic (image dumps) or for low-level
command (restart the Ganeti node daemon)
- python-twisted based, for the usual operation
- DRBD traffic, for real-time disk replication traffic
- SSH-based, for high-volume traffic like image dumps or for low-level
command, e.g. restarting the Ganeti node daemon
- RPC communication between master and nodes
- DRBD real-time disk replication traffic
The ssh traffic is protected (after the initial login to a new node) by
the cluster-wide shared ssh key.
The SSH traffic is protected (after the initial login to a new node) by
the cluster-wide shared SSH key.
The python-twisted traffic is secured by SSL and two pre-conditions: the
client will refuse to connect to servers which don't have the
cluster-wide shared SSL certificate, and server will not allow clients
which don't have the cluster-wide shared secret.
RPC communication between the master and nodes is protected using SSL/TLS
encryption. Both the client and the server must have the cluster-widely
shared SSL/TLS certificate and verify it when establishing the connection
by comparing fingerprints. We decided not to use a CA to simplify the
key handling.
The DRBD traffic is not protected by anything. DRBD does not support
The DRBD traffic is not protected by encryption. DRBD does not support
traffic encryption. It's therefore recommended to implement host-level
firewalling or to use a separate range of IP addresses for the DRBD
traffic (this is supported in Ganeti) which is not routed outside the
cluster.
cluster. DRBD connections are protected from connecting to random other
machines by using a shared secret exchanged via RPC requests when
starting the device.
Remote API
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Starting with Ganeti 2.0, Remote API traffic is encrypted using SSL/TLS by
default. It supports Basic authentication as per RFC2617.
Paths for certificate, private key and CA files required for SSL/TLS will
be set at source configure time. Symlinks or command line parameters may
be used to use different files.
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