Hi Folks,

I'm still processing all this information - thanks for your help!

--Pino


On Wed, Oct 4, 2017 at 7:58 AM, Jeremy Stanley <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 2017-10-04 10:47:02 +0100 (+0100), Luke Hinds wrote:
> [...]
> > The recommendation is not to use metadata for security sensitive
> > data (its possible to spoof by setting a X-Forwarded header),
> > please see the following OpenStack Security Note on the topic:
> >
> > https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/OSSN/OSSN-0074
>
> Well, it's possible as long as the environment is badly
> designed/configured: you deployed nova to expect a proxy, but then
> gave guest instances a way to reach the metadata API without going
> through that proxy. So while it's definitely a risk to be aware of,
> it come pretty close to the need Sean mentions for "solid network
> security on the path between your guests and your nova-API."
> --
> Jeremy Stanley
>
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