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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephen Gran [mailto:stephen.gran at guardian.co.uk]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2013 3:01 PM
> To: OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions)
> Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [Neutron][LBaaS] SSL Termination write-up
> 
> Hi,
> 
> On Wed, 2013-11-20 at 08:24 +0000, Samuel Bercovici wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> >
> >
> > Evgeny has outlined the wiki for the proposed change at:
> > https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Neutron/LBaaS/SSL which is in line
> > with what was discussed during the summit.
> >
> > The
> >
> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tFOrIa10lKr0xQyLVGsVfXr29NQBq2n
> YTvMkMJ_inbo/edit discuss in addition Certificate Chains.
> >
> >
> >
> > What would be the benefit of having a certificate that must be
> > connected to VIP vs. embedding it in the VIP?
> 
> You could reuse the same certificate for multiple loadbalancer VIPs.
> This is a fairly common pattern - we have a dev wildcard cert that is self-
> signed, and is used for lots of VIPs.
> 
If certificates can be totally independent and can be reused, it will be awesome.
But even otherwise, certificate connected to VIP is just better modeling and 
provides an easier migration path towards an independent certificate resource.

> > When we get a system that can store certificates (ex: Barbican), we
> > will add support to it in the LBaaS model.
> 
> It probably doesn't need anything that complicated, does it?
> 
> Cheers,
> --
> Stephen Gran
> Senior Systems Integrator - The Guardian
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