[openstack-dev] znc as a service (was Re: [nova] Is the BP approval process broken?)

Spencer Krum krum.spencer at gmail.com
Wed Sep 3 18:36:45 UTC 2014


Here is a docker image that will bring up subway.


https://registry.hub.docker.com/u/nibalizer/subway/


On Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 10:04 AM, Clark Boylan <cboylan at sapwetik.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 3, 2014, at 07:26 AM, Ryan Brown wrote:
> > On 09/03/2014 09:35 AM, Sylvain Bauza wrote:
> > > Re: ZNC as a service, I think it's OK provided the implementation is
> > > open-sourced with openstack-infra repo group, as for Gerrit, Zuul and
> > > others.
> > > The only problem I can see is how to provide IRC credentials to this,
> as
> > > I don't want to share my creds up to the service.
> > >
> > > -Sylvain
> > There are more than just adoption (user trust) problems. An Open Source
> > implementation wouldn't solve the liability concerns, because users
> > would still have logs of their (potentially sensitive) credentials and
> > conversations on servers run by OpenStack Infra.
> >
> > This is different from Gerrit/Zuul etc which just display code/changes
> > and run/display tests on those public items. There isn't anything
> > sensitive to be leaked there. Storing credentials and private messages
> > is a different story, and would require much more security work than
> > just storing code and test results.
> >
> > --
> > Ryan Brown / Software Engineer, Openstack / Red Hat, Inc.
> >
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>
> This doesn't solve the privacy issues, but subway [0] was built
> specifically to tackle the problem of making persistent IRC easy without
> needing to understand screen/tmux or znc/bip.
>
> Maybe we can sidestep the privacy concerns by providing scipts/puppet
> manifests/disk image builder elements/something that individuals or
> groups of people that have some form of trust between each other can use
> to easily spin up something like subway for persistent access.
> Unfortunately, this assumes that individuals or groups of people will
> have a way to run a persistent service on a server of some sort which
> may not always be the case.
>
> [0] https://github.com/thedjpetersen/subway
>
> Clark
>
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