[Openstack] inter-tenant and VM-to-bare-metal communication policies/restrictions.

Lorin Hochstein lorin at nimbisservices.com
Wed Aug 15 02:16:45 UTC 2012


On Jul 5, 2012, at 11:47 AM, Christian Parpart <trapni at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I am running multiple compute nodes and a single nova-network node, that is to act
> as a central gateway for the tenant's VMs.
> 
> However, since this nova-network node (of course) knows all routes, every VM of
> any tenant can talk to each other, including to the physical nodes, which
> I highly disagree with and would like to restrict that. :-)
> 

If you add this to nova.conf:

allow_same_net_traffic=false

It should prevent the VMs from communicating with each other. From 

http://docs.openstack.org/essex/openstack-compute/admin/content/compute-options-reference.html#d6e3133


Take care,

Lorin
--
Lorin Hochstein
Lead Architect - Cloud Services
Nimbis Services, Inc.
www.nimbisservices.com


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