Oops, Hit send before i finished https://info.massopencloud.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Workshop-Resource-Federation-in-a-Multi-Landlord-Cloud.pdf https://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/mixmatch
Essentially you can do a single cinder proxy that can work with multiple cinder backends (one use case) Thanks, Dims On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 8:59 PM, Davanum Srinivas <[email protected]> wrote: > Jonathan, > > The folks from Boston University have done some work around this idea: > > https://github.com/openstack/mixmatch/blob/master/doc/source/architecture.rst > > > On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 7:33 PM, Jonathan Mills <[email protected]> wrote: >> Friends, >> >> I’m reaching out for assistance from anyone who may have confronted the >> issue of dealing with ITAR data in an OpenStack cloud being used in some >> department of the Federal Gov. >> >> ITAR (https://www.pmddtc.state.gov/regulations_laws/itar.html) is a less >> restrictive level of security than classified data, but it has some thorny >> aspects to it, particularly where media is concerned: >> >> * you cannot co-mingle ITAR and non-ITAR data on the same physical hard >> drives, and any drive, once it has been “tainted” with any ITAR data, is now >> an ITAR drive >> >> * when ITAR data is destroyed, a DBAN is insufficient — instead, you >> physically shred the drive. No need to elaborate on how destructive this >> can get if you accidentally mingle ITAR with non-ITAR >> >> Certainly the multi-tenant model of OpenStack holds great promise in Federal >> agencies for supporting both ITAR and non-ITAR worlds, but great care must >> be taken that *somehow* things like Glance and Cinder don’t get mixed up. >> One must ensure that the ITAR tenants can only access Glance/Cinder in ways >> such that their backend storage is physically separate from any non-ITAR >> tenants. Certainly I understand that Glance/Cinder can support multiple >> storage backend types, such as File & Ceph, and maybe that is an avenue to >> explore to achieving the physical separation. But what if you want to have >> multiple different File backends? >> >> Do the ACLs exist to ensure that non-ITAR tenants can’t access ITAR >> Glance/Cinder backends, and vice versa? >> >> Or…is it simpler to just build two OpenStack clouds….? >> >> Your thoughts will be most appreciated, >> >> >> Jonathan Mills >> >> NASA Goddard Space Flight Center >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> OpenStack-operators mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-operators >> > > > > -- > Davanum Srinivas :: https://twitter.com/dims -- Davanum Srinivas :: https://twitter.com/dims _______________________________________________ OpenStack-operators mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-operators
