Difference between revisions of "Neutron/LBaaS/SSL"

Revision as of 15:29, 25 November 2013

Description

Terminating SSL connection on the load balancer and encrypting traffic back to the back end nodes, is a capabilities expected from modern load balancers and incorporated into many applications. This capability enables better certificate management and improved application based load balancing (ex: cookie based persistency, L7 Policies, etc.)

Rationale

Giving user the ability to use SSL on LBaaS.

User should be able to apply SSL certificates on LBaaS and configure SSL on vip, front-end and back-end.

API change

No API change

Resources change

LBaaS extension's resource attributes map should be extended with new parameters on the vip object:

Database persistent

* front_end_termination
    Boolean (default=False)
    Mandatory
    Visible
* protocols
    List of comma-separated values from a list of allowed values=SSL3, TLS10, TLS11, default=None
    Mandatory if termination enabled
    Visible if termination enabled
* cipher_suites:
    List of coma-separated values from allowed values list in format 
        <key exchange algorithm>_<bulk encryption algorithm>_<message authentication code>_<pseudorandom function>
    Mandatory if termination enabled
    Visible if termination enabled
* back_end_encryption
    Boolean (default=False)
    Mandatory
    Visible
* back_end_trusted_certs:
    List of certificates including name and PEM-formated certificate body for each one
    NOT Mandatory
    Visible if encryption enabled

Transient (Not stored in DB)

* passphrase (optional, if private key is encrypted)
* public_key (PEM Formatted)
* private_key (PEM Formatted)
* certificate_chain (List of PEM Formatted public keys)

Data model change

Vip database entity should be extended with new columns:

front_end_termination - Boolean
protocols - String (64)
cipher_suite: String(512)
back_end_encryption - Boolean 
back_end_trusted_keys: String(256)

DB Migration

Vip table should be altered with new columns.

New columns of each existing Vip row should be populated with default values:

front_end_termination - False
protocols - None
cipher_suites: None
back_end_termination - False
back_end_trusted_keys: None

Implementation Plan

• Modifying LBaaS Vip resources' attribute map with new parameters
• Modifying LBaaS Vip DB Model with new parameters
• Modifying LBaaS Vip DB Model tests to account new parameters if needed
• Modifying LBaaS HA-Proxy driver to support SSL

• Update HA-Proxy to version 1.5 {TBD}

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