[openstack-dev] Where should Schema files live?

Sandy Walsh sandy.walsh at RACKSPACE.COM
Mon Dec 8 14:39:30 UTC 2014


>From: Sandy Walsh [sandy.walsh at RACKSPACE.COM] Monday, December 01, 2014 9:29 AM
>
>>From: Duncan Thomas [duncan.thomas at gmail.com]
>>Sent: Sunday, November 30, 2014 5:40 AM
>>To: OpenStack Development Mailing List
>>Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] Where should Schema files live?
>>
>>Duncan Thomas
>>On Nov 27, 2014 10:32 PM, "Sandy Walsh" <sandy.walsh at rackspace.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> We were thinking each service API would expose their schema via a new /schema resource (or something). Nova would expose its schema. Glance its own. etc. This would also work well for installations still using older deployments.
>>This feels like externally exposing info that need not be external (since the notifications are not external to the deploy) and it sounds like it will potentially leak fine detailed version and maybe deployment config details that you don't want to make public - either for commercial reasons or to make targeted attacks harder
>>
>
>Yep, good point. Makes a good case for standing up our own service or just relying on the tarballs being in a well know place.

Hmm, I wonder if it makes sense to limit the /schema resource to service accounts. Expose it by role.

There's something in the back of my head that doesn't like calling out to the public API though. Perhaps unfounded.

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