[Openstack] [Barbican] Key Recovery / Availability

2014-03-19 Thread Clark, Robert Graham
Has there been much discussion on how to ensure that keys are recoverable in the event that Barbican has some sort of horrific failure? I suppose a HA frontend, Redundant Keystore Databases and HA paired HSMs would be the most obvious non-code-writing path but this feels pretty clunky, I was

Re: [Openstack] [Barbican] Key Recovery / Availability

2014-03-19 Thread Clint Byrum
Excerpts from Clark, Robert Graham's message of 2014-03-19 07:41:35 -0700: Has there been much discussion on how to ensure that keys are recoverable in the event that Barbican has some sort of horrific failure? I suppose a HA frontend, Redundant Keystore Databases and HA paired HSMs would

Re: [Openstack] [Barbican] Key Recovery / Availability

2014-03-19 Thread Douglas Mendizabal
Our plan for deployment is exactly as Clark described: * Several API nodes behind a load balancer * PostgreSQL master/slave replication * HSMs in HA paired mode * Several Worker nodes I’m also curios as to why this would be considered “clunky”? -Doug On 3/19/14, 1:21 PM, Clint Byrum

Re: [Openstack] [Barbican] Key Recovery / Availability

2014-03-19 Thread Clark, Robert Graham
-Original Message- From: Clint Byrum [mailto:cl...@fewbar.com] Sent: 19 March 2014 18:22 To: openstack Subject: Re: [Openstack] [Barbican] Key Recovery / Availability Excerpts from Clark, Robert Graham's message of 2014-03-19 07:41:35 - 0700: Has there been much discussion

Re: [Openstack] [Barbican] Key Recovery / Availability

2014-03-19 Thread Clark, Robert Graham
As the services I described were the first things that came into my mind with regards to high availability in Barbican I assumed that there was probably a better strategy. If the strategy is as you've described then that's great - even I can understand that! -Rob Our plan for deployment