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Security in Ganeti |
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Ganeti was developed to run on internal, trusted systems. As such, the |
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security model is all-or-nothing. |
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All the Ganeti code runs as root, because all the operations that Ganeti |
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is doing require privileges: creating logical volumes, drbd devices, |
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starting instances, etc. Running as root does not mean setuid, but that |
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you need to be root to run the cluster commands. |
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Host issues |
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For a host on which the Ganeti software has been installed, but not joined to a |
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cluster, there are no changes to the system. |
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For a host that has been joined to the cluster, there are very important |
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changes: |
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- The host will have its SSH host key replaced with the one of the |
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cluster (which is the one the initial node had at the cluster |
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creation) |
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- A new public key will be added to root's authorized_keys file, |
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granting root access to all nodes of the cluster. The private part of |
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the key is also distributed to all nodes. Old files are renamed. |
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- Communication between nodes is encrypted using SSL/TLS. A common key |
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and certificate combo is shared between all nodes of the cluster. At |
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this time, no CA is used. |
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- The Ganeti node daemon will accept RPC requests from any host within |
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the cluster with the correct certificate, and the operations it will |
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do as a result of these requests are: |
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- running commands under the /etc/ganeti/hooks directory |
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- creating DRBD disks between it and the IP it has been told |
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- overwrite a defined list of files on the host |
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As you can see, as soon as a node is joined, it becomes equal to all |
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other nodes in the cluster, and the security of the cluster is |
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determined by the weakest node. |
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Note that only the SSH key will allow other machines to run random |
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commands on this node; the RPC method will run only: |
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- well defined commands to create, remove, activate logical volumes, |
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drbd devices, start/stop instances, etc; |
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- run SSH commands on other nodes in the cluster, again well-defined |
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- scripts under the /etc/ganeti/hooks directory |
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It is therefore important to make sure that the contents of the |
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/etc/ganeti/hooks directory is supervised and only trusted sources can |
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populate it. |
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Cluster issues |
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As told above, there are multiple ways of communication between cluster |
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nodes: |
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- SSH-based, for high-volume traffic like image dumps or for low-level |
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command, e.g. restarting the Ganeti node daemon |
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- RPC communication between master and nodes |
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- DRBD real-time disk replication traffic |
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The SSH traffic is protected (after the initial login to a new node) by |
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the cluster-wide shared SSH key. |
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RPC communication between the master and nodes is protected using SSL/TLS |
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encryption. Both the client and the server must have the cluster-wide |
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shared SSL/TLS certificate and verify it when establishing the connection |
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by comparing fingerprints. We decided not to use a CA to simplify the |
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key handling. |
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The DRBD traffic is not protected by encryption, as DRBD does not |
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support this. It's therefore recommended to implement host-level |
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firewalling or to use a separate range of IP addresses for the DRBD |
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traffic (this is supported in Ganeti) which is not routed outside the |
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cluster. DRBD connections are protected from connecting due to bugs to |
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other machines, and from accepting connections from other machines, by |
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using a shared secret, exchanged via RPC requests from the master to the |
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nodes when configuring the device. |
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Master daemon |
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The command-line tools to master daemon communication is done via an UNIX |
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socket, whose permissions are reset to ``0600`` after listening but before |
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serving requests. This permission-based protection is documented and works on |
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Linux, but is not-portable; however, Ganeti doesn't work on non-Linux system at |
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the moment. |
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Remote API |
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Starting with Ganeti 2.0, Remote API traffic is encrypted using SSL/TLS by |
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default. It supports Basic authentication as per RFC2617. |
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Paths for certificate, private key and CA files required for SSL/TLS will |
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be set at source configure time. Symlinks or command line parameters may |
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be used to use different files. |