Re: [Openstack] Do we need SSL on nova-api ports?

2011-05-03 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
: http://www.zeitoun.net/articles/client-certificate-x509-authentication-behind-reverse-proxy/start Eldar On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 11:27 AM, Dirk-Willem van Gulik dirk-willem.van.gu...@bbc.co.uk wrote: On 25 Apr 2011, at 19:47, Kirill Shileev wrote: Recently, playing with libcloud against

Re: [Openstack] Do we need SSL on nova-api ports?

2011-05-03 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
On 3 May 2011, at 03:29, Todd Willey wrote: We should be able to do it with a wsgi middleware and either include it or not in the paste config file. In a heavily load-balanced environment you'll probably want to terminate SSL before it gets proxied to the actual api servers, Agreed. And

Re: [Openstack] Do we need SSL on nova-api ports?

2011-05-03 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
On 3 May 2011, at 10:31, Soren Hansen wrote: 2011/5/3 Todd Willey t...@ansolabs.com: In a heavily load-balanced environment you'll probably want to terminate SSL before it gets proxied to the actual api servers, Why is that? It seems like a win to distribute as much processing as

Re: [Openstack] Do we need SSL on nova-api ports?

2011-05-03 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
On 3 May 2011, at 13:30, Todd Willey wrote: On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 5:39 AM, Dirk-Willem van Gulik dirk-willem.van.gu...@bbc.co.uk wrote: On 3 May 2011, at 10:31, Soren Hansen wrote: 2011/5/3 Todd Willey t...@ansolabs.com: In a heavily load-balanced environment you'll probably want

Re: [Openstack] Do we need SSL on nova-api ports?

2011-05-03 Thread Dirk-WIllem van Gulik
On 3 May 2011, at 18:49, Richard Hartmann wrote: On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 08:09, Dirk-Willem van Gulik dirk-willem.van.gu...@bbc.co.uk wrote: a) Make SSL only the default (ideally with client cert on as well). Sounds good to me. b) Postulate that one port lower

Re: [Openstack] Do we need SSL on nova-api ports?

2011-04-26 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
On 25 Apr 2011, at 19:47, Kirill Shileev wrote: Recently, playing with libcloud against a private openstack installation we realized that 8773 and 8774 ports listened by openstack-nova-api expect plain HTTP. This is something that is rarely allowed in production installations. .