nova/doc/source/admin/configuration/service-user-token.rst
melanie witt db455548a1 Use force=True for os-brick disconnect during delete
The 'force' parameter of os-brick's disconnect_volume() method allows
callers to ignore flushing errors and ensure that devices are being
removed from the host.

We should use force=True when we are going to delete an instance to
avoid leaving leftover devices connected to the compute host which
could then potentially be reused to map to volumes to an instance that
should not have access to those volumes.

We can use force=True even when disconnecting a volume that will not be
deleted on termination because os-brick will always attempt to flush
and disconnect gracefully before forcefully removing devices.

Closes-Bug: #2004555

Change-Id: I3629b84d3255a8fe9d8a7cea8c6131d7c40899e8
2023-05-10 07:09:05 -07:00

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Service User Tokens

Note

Configuration of service user tokens is required for every Nova service for security reasons. See https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/2004555 for details.

Configure Nova to send service user tokens alongside regular user tokens when making REST API calls to other services. The identity service (Keystone) will authenticate a request using the service user token if the regular user token has expired.

This is important when long-running operations such as live migration or snapshot take long enough to exceed the expiry of the user token. Without the service token, if a long-running operation exceeds the expiry of the user token, post operations such as cleanup after a live migration could fail when Nova calls other service APIs like block-storage (Cinder) or networking (Neutron).

The service token is also used by services to validate whether the API caller is a service. Some service APIs are restricted to service users only.

To set up service tokens, create a nova service user and service role in the identity service (Keystone) and assign the service role to the nova service user.

Then, configure the :oslo.configservice_user section of the Nova configuration file, for example:

[service_user]
send_service_user_token = true
auth_url = https://104.130.216.102/identity
auth_strategy = keystone
auth_type = password
project_domain_name = Default
project_name = service
user_domain_name = Default
username = nova
password = secretservice
...

And configure the other identity options as necessary for the service user, much like you would configure nova to work with the image service (Glance) or networking service (Neutron).

Note

Please note that the role assigned to the :oslo.configservice_user needs to be in the configured :oslo.configkeystone_authtoken.service_token_roles of other services such as block-storage (Cinder), image (Glance), and networking (Neutron).