[openstack-dev] [nova] key management and Cinder volume encryption

Russell Bryant rbryant at redhat.com
Tue Sep 3 22:35:23 UTC 2013


On 09/03/2013 06:26 PM, Bhandaru, Malini K wrote:
> The issue here is the key manager, barbican, under development is in incubation.
> Folks can download and use barbican. The barbican team has worked deligently to produce the system.
> In fact, folks can download and use and vote for Joel's patch to be merged.
> And do give us feedback on barbican.
> 
> The chicken-egg problem .. and the desire to keep the key manager as a separate service entails the incubation requirement.

Couple of things...

Barbican is not yet in incubation.  That is an official project status
that must be applied for and is reviewed by the OpenStack Technical
Committee.

Even if it was, we don't have a patch ready to go along with this
feature to make use of the Barbican API.

-- 
Russell Bryant



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