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Thank you, Ghanshyam, for your inputs.
These are helpful to understand the latest plan.

So I think our question comes back to the original one.
Currently keystone allows any of
 1. system-service
 2. domain-service
 3. project-service
 4. system-admin
 5. system-member
 6. system-reader
to validate token but which one is the appropriate one to be used by
authtoken middleware ?

Considering the purpose of the service role, the service role is
appropriate but it's not yet
clear which scope should be used (as is pointed out by Mark from the
beginning).

AFAIK token is not a resource belonging to projects so system scope looks
appropriate
but what is the main intention is to allow project/domain scope ?

By the way, in Puppet OpenStack, we have been using the service"s" project
instead of
the service project for some reason(which I'm not aware of).
So it's helpful for us if we avoid implementing strict limitations to use
the service project.


On Thu, Jan 20, 2022 at 1:29 AM Ghanshyam Mann <gmann at ghanshyammann.com>
wrote:

>  ---- On Wed, 19 Jan 2022 08:01:00 -0600 Takashi Kajinami <
> tkajinam at redhat.com> wrote ----
>  >
>  > On Wed, Jan 19, 2022 at 9:22 PM Mark Goddard <mark at stackhpc.com> wrote:
>  > On Wed, 19 Jan 2022 at 11:15, Takashi Kajinami <tkajinam at redhat.com>
> wrote:
>  > >
>  > > Hi,
>  > >
>  > >
>  > > (The topic doesn't include puppet but ...)
>  > > I recently spent some time implementing initial support for SRBAC
>  > > in Puppet OpenStack. You can find details in the etherpad[1] I created
>  > > as my working note. It includes some items commonly required by all
> toolings
>  > > in addition to ones specific to puppet.
>  > >  [1] https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/puppet-secure-rbac
>  >
>  > Thanks for responding, Takashi - that's useful.
>  >
>  > >
>  > > I expect some of them (especially the configuration parameters) would
> be used
>  > > by TripleO later.
>  > >
>  > > > Question: should the role be added with system scope or in the
>  > > > existing service project? The obvious main use for this is token
>  > > > validation, which seems to allow system or project scope.
>  > >
>  > > I'd add one more question which is;
>  > >  Which roles should be assigned for the service users ?
>  > >
>  > > In the project which already implemented SRBAC, system-admin +
> system-reader
>  > > allows any API calls and works like the previous project-admin.
>  >
>  > IIUC the direction of travel has changed, and now the intention is
>  > that system-admin won't have access to project-scoped APIs.
>
> Yes, as mark mentioned. And that is the key change from prevous direction.
> We are isolating the system and project level APIs. system token will be
> able
> to perform only system level operation and not allowed to do project level
> operation. For example: system user will not be allowed to create the
> server
> in nova. To have a quick view on those (we have not finished yet in nova),
> you
> can check how it will look like in the below series:
>
> -
> https://review.opendev.org/q/topic:%22bp%252Fpolicy-defaults-refresh-2%22+(status:open%20OR%20status:merged)
>
> You can see the test cases for all four possible configuration combination
> and what all
> roles are allowed in which configuration (case 4th is end goal we want to
> be for RBAC):
>
> 1. enforce_scope=False + legacy rule (current default policies)
> 2. enforce_scope=False + No legacy rule (enable scope but remove old
> policy default)
> 3. enforce_scope=True + legacy rule  (enable scope with old policy default)
> 4. enforce_scope=True + no legacy rule (end goal of new RBAC)
>
>  >
>  > >
>  > > For token validations system-reader(or service role) would be enough
> but there are
>  > > some system-admin-only APIs (os-server-external-events API in nova
> called by neutron,
>  > > Create allocation in placement called by nova or neutron) used for
> communications
>  > > between services.
>  >
>  > The token validation API has the following default policy:
>  >
>  > identity:validate_token: (role:reader and system_scope:all) or
>  > rule:service_role or rule:token_subject
>  >
>  > So system-reader, system-admin or service (any scope) should work. The
>  > spec suggests that the service role is intended for use by service to
>  > service APIs, in this case the credentials provided in the
>  > keystone_authtoken config. I would guess that system scope makes most
>  > sense here with the service role, although the rule suggests it would
>  > work with project scope and the service role.
>  >
>  > I noticed I ignored implied roles... Thanks for clarifying that.
>  > I understand and I agree with this. Considering the intention of SRBAC
> this would fixbetter with system-scoped, as you earlier mentioned but I'll
> defer to the others. >
>
> Another thigns to note here is, in Yoga cycle we are doing only
> system-admin. system-reader,
> system-member will be done in phase3 which is for future releases (BB).
>
>  > > If we agree system-admin + system-reader is the right set then I'll
> update the default role
>  > > assignment accordingly. This is important for Puppet OpenStack
> because there are implementations
>  > > in puppet (which is usually called as providers) to manage some
> resources like Flavors,
>  > > and these rely on credentials of service users after trying to look
> up user credentials.
>  >
>  > I think one of the outcomes of this work is that authentication will
>  > necessarily become a bit more fine-grained. It might not make sense to
>  > have the same role assignments for all users. To your example, I would
>  > say that registering flavors should be done by a different user with
>  > different permissions than a service user. In kolla-ansible we don't
>  > really register flavors other than for octavia - this is up to
>  > operators.
>  > My main concern was that some service users would require system-admin
> butI should have read this part more carefully.
> https://opendev.org/openstack/governance/src/branch/master/goals/selected/consistent-and-secure-rbac.rst#phase-2
>  > So Assigning the service role (for the proper scope which is asked in
> the original thread)is the right way to go. For the provider stuff I'll
> look into any available option to replace usage of serviceuser credential
> but that's specific to Puppet which we can ignore here in this discussion.
>
> right, once we have service role implemented then we will have clear way
> on how services will be
> communicating to other services APIs.
>
> -gmann
>
>  >
>  > >
>  > > Takashi
>  > >
>  > > On Wed, Jan 19, 2022 at 7:40 PM Mark Goddard <mark at stackhpc.com>
> wrote:
>  > >>
>  > >> Hi,
>  > >>
>  > >> If you haven't been paying close attention, it would be easy to miss
>  > >> some of the upcoming RBAC changes which will have an impact on
>  > >> deployment projects. I thought I'd start a thread so that we can
> share
>  > >> how we are approaching this, get answers to open questions, and
>  > >> ideally all end up with a fairly consistent approach.
>  > >>
>  > >> The secure RBAC work has a long history, and continues to evolve.
>  > >> According to [1], we should start to see some fairly substantial
>  > >> changes over the next few releases. That spec is fairly long, but
>  > >> worth a read.
>  > >>
>  > >> In the yoga timeline [2], there is one change in particular that has
>  > >> an impact on deployment projects, "3. Keystone enforces scope by
>  > >> default". After this change, all of the deprecated policies that many
>  > >> still rely on in Keystone will be removed.
>  > >>
>  > >> In kolla-ansible, we have an etherpad [5] with some notes, questions
>  > >> and half-baked plans. We made some changes in Xena [3] to use system
>  > >> scope in some places when interacting with system APIs in Ansible
>  > >> tasks.
>  > >>
>  > >> The next change we have staged is to add the service role to all
>  > >> service users [4], in preparation for [2].
>  > >>
>  > >> Question: should the role be added with system scope or in the
>  > >> existing service project? The obvious main use for this is token
>  > >> validation, which seems to allow system or project scope.
>  > >>
>  > >> We anticipate that some service users may still require some
>  > >> project-scoped roles, e.g. when creating resources for octavia. We'll
>  > >> deal with those on a case by case basis.
>  > >>
>  > >> In anticipation of keystone setting enforce_scope=True and removing
>  > >> old default policies (which I assume effectively removes
>  > >> enforce_new_defaults?), we will set this in kolla-ansible, and try to
>  > >> deal with any fallout. Hopefully the previous work will make this
>  > >> minimal.
>  > >>
>  > >> How does that line up with other projects' approaches? What have we
> missed?
>  > >>
>  > >> Mark
>  > >>
>  > >> [1]
> https://opendev.org/openstack/governance/src/branch/master/goals/selected/consistent-and-secure-rbac.rst
>  > >> [2]
> https://opendev.org/openstack/governance/src/branch/master/goals/selected/consistent-and-secure-rbac.rst#yoga-timeline-7th-mar-2022
>  > >> [3]
> https://opendev.org/openstack/kolla-ansible/commit/2e933dceb591c3505f35c2c1de924f3978fb81a7
>  > >> [4] https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/kolla-ansible/+/815577
>  > >> [5]
> https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/enabling-system-scope-in-kolla-ansible
>  > >>
>  >
>  >
>
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