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+1 on two VIPs

On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 6:04 AM, Steven Dake (stdake) <stdake at cisco.com>
wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> Unfortunately I won't be able to make it to the Operator midcycle because
> of budget constraints or I would find the answer to this question there.
> The Kolla upstream is busy sorting out external ssl termination and a
> question arose in the Kolla community around operator requirements for
> publicURL vs internalURL VIP management.
>
> At present, Kolla creates 3 Haproxy containers across 3 HA nodes with one
> VIP managed by keepalived.  The VIP is used for internal communication
> only.  Our PUBLIC_URL is set to a DNS name, and we expect the Operator to
> sort out how to map that DNS name to the internal VIP used by Kolla.  The
> way I do this in my home lab is to use NAT to NAT my public_URL from the
> internet (hosted by dyndns) to my internal VIP that haproxies to my 3 HA
> control nodes.  This is secure assuming someone doesn't bust through my NAT.
>
> An alternative has been suggested which is to use TWO vips.  One for
> internal_url, one for public_url.  Then the operator would only be
> responsible for selecting where to to allocate the public_url endpoint's
> VIP.  I think this allows more flexibility without necessarily requiring
> NAT while still delivering a secure solution.
>
> Not having ever run an OpenStack cloud in production, how do the Operators
> want it?  Our deciding factor here is what Operators want, not what is
> necessarily currently in the code base.  We still have time to make this
> work differently for Mitaka, but I need feedback/advice quickly.
>
> The security guide seems to imply two VIPs are the way to Operate: (big
> diagram):
> http://docs.openstack.org/security-guide/networking/architecture.html
>
> The IRC discussion is here for reference:
>
> http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/irclogs/%23kolla/%23kolla.2016-02-12.log.html#t2016-02-12T12:09:08
>
> Thanks in Advance!
> -steve
>
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