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    :maxdepth: 2
 
+   systems
    jenkins
    gerrit
    tarmac
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+:title: Infrastructure Systems
+
+Infrastructure Systems
+######################
+
+The OpenStack CI team maintains a number of systems that are critical
+to the operation of the OpenStack project.  At the time of writing,
+these include:
+
+ * Gerrit (review.openstack.org)
+ * Jenkins (jenkins.openstack.org)
+ * community.openstack.org
+
+Additionally the team maintains the project sites on Launchpad and
+GitHub.  The following policies have been adopted to ensure the
+continued and secure operation of the project.
+
+SSH Access
+**********
+
+For any of the systems managed by the CI team, the following practices
+must be observed for SSH access:
+
+ * SSH access is only permitted with SSH public/private key
+   authentication.
+ * Users must use a strong passphrase to protect their private key.  A
+   passphrase of several words, at least one of which is not in a
+   dictionary is advised, or a random string of at least 16
+   characters.
+ * To mitigate the inconvenience of using a long passphrase, users may
+   want to use an SSH agent so that the passphrase is only requested
+   once per desktop session.
+ * Users private keys must never be stored anywhere except their own
+   workstation(s).  In particular, they must never be stored on any
+   remote server.
+ * If users need to 'hop' from a server or bastion host to another
+   machine, they must not copy a private key to the intermediate
+   machine (see above).  Instead SSH agent forwarding may be used.
+   However due to the potential for a compromised intermediate machine
+   to ask the agent to sign requests without the users knowledge, in
+   this case only an SSH agent that interactively prompts the user
+   each time a signing request (ie, ssh-agent, but not gnome-keyring)
+   is received should be used, and the SSH keys should be added with
+   the confirmation constraint ('ssh-add -c').
+ * The number of SSH keys that are configured to permit access to
+   OpenStack machines should be kept to a minimum.
+ * OpenStack CI machines must use puppet to centrally manage and
+   configure user accounts, and the SSH authorized_keys files from the
+   openstack-ci-puppet repository.
+ * SSH keys should be periodically rotated (at least once per year).
+   During rotation, a new key can be added to puppet for a time, and
+   then the old one removed.
+
+GitHub Access
+*************
+
+To ensure that code review and testing are not bypassed in the public
+Git repositories, only Gerrit will be permitted to commit code to
+OpenStack repositories.  Because GitHub always allows project
+administrators to commit code, accounts that have access to manage the
+GitHub projects necessarily will have commit access to the
+repositories.  Therefore, to avoid inadvertent commits to the public
+repositories, unique administrative-only accounts must be used to
+manage the OpenStack GitHub organization and projects.  These accounts
+will not be used to check out or commit code for any project.
+
+Launchpad Teams
+***************
+
+Each OpenStack project should have the following teams on Launchpad:
+
+ * foo -- contributors to project 'foo'
+ * foo-core -- core developers
+ * foo-bugs -- people interested in receieving bug reports
+ * foo-drivers -- people who may approve and target blueprints
+
+The openstack-admins team should be a member of each of those teams.