[openstack-dev] [nova][cinder][barbican] Why is Cinder creating symmetric keys in Barbican for use with encrypted volumes?

Lee Yarwood lyarwood at redhat.com
Fri May 26 16:42:17 UTC 2017


On 26-05-17 17:25:15, Duncan Thomas wrote:
> On 25 May 2017 12:33 pm, "Lee Yarwood" <lyarwood at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> On 25-05-17 11:38:44, Duncan Thomas wrote:
> > On 25 May 2017 at 11:00, Lee Yarwood <lyarwood at redhat.com> wrote:
> > > This has also reminded me that the plain (dm-crypt) format really needs
> > > to be deprecated this cycle. I posted to the dev and ops ML [2] last
> > > year about this but received no feedback. Assuming there are no last
> > > minute objections I'm going to move forward with deprecating this format
> > > in os-brick this cycle.
> >
> > What is the reasoning for this? There are plenty of people using it, and
> > you're going to break them going forward if you remove it.
> 
> I didn't receive any feedback indicating that we had any users of plain
> when I initially posted to the ML. That said there obviously can be
> users out there and my intention isn't to pull support for this format
> immediately without any migration path to LUKS etc.
> 
> 
> Ok, after a few emails, of the users I knew about, one is happy with luks
> and the others are no longer running openstack. Apologies for the mis-steer

No problem, thanks for replying!

Lee
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