
This patch updates the Octavia documentation in support of the OpenStack documentation migration[1]. [1] https://specs.openstack.org/openstack/docs-specs/specs \ /pike/os-manuals-migration.html Change-Id: I97fd038b8050bfe776c3fca8336d9090f8236362 Depends-On: Ia750cb049c0f53a234ea70ce1f2bbbb7a2aa9454
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Anchor
Anchor (see https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Security/Projects/Anchor) is an ephemeral PKI system built to enable cryptographic trust in OpenStack services. In the context of Octavia it can be used to sign the certificates which secure the amphora - controller communication.
Basic Setup
- Download/Install/Start Anchor from https://github.com/openstack/anchor
- Change the listening port in config.py to 9999
- I found it useful to run anchor in an additional devstack screen
- Set in octavia.conf (root-ca.crt here is the Anchor CA)
- [controller_worker] cert_generator = anchor
- [haproxy_amphora] server_ca = /opt/stack/anchor/CA/root-ca.crt
- Restart o-cw o-hm o-hk
Benefit
In bigger cloud installations Anchor can be a gateway to a more secure certificate management system than our default local signing.