openstack-manuals/doc/admin-guide-cloud/compute/section_compute-security.xml
Lana Brindley e880c6e326 General updates to Compute for style and convention
Editing the nested sections for the compute chapter. Mostly grammar, wording,
style, convention, etc. This patch includes rootwrap and security. Watch this
space for more.

Change-Id: I63d9691e64f14c4eba9ca4440930f06e757f9750
Partial-Bug: #1251195
2015-02-17 09:08:32 +10:00

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<section xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" version="5.0" xml:id="section-compute-security">
<title>Security hardening</title>
<para>OpenStack Compute can be integrated with various third-party
technologies to increase security. For more information, see the
<link xlink:href="http://docs.openstack.org/sec/">
<citetitle>OpenStack Security Guide</citetitle></link>.</para>
<xi:include href="section_trusted-compute-pools.xml"/>
<section xml:id="section_compute_metadata_https">
<title>Encrypt Compute metadata traffic</title>
<para>OpenStack supports encrypting Compute metadata traffic with HTTPS.
Enable SSL encryption in the <filename>metadata_agent.ini</filename>
file.</para>
<procedure>
<title>Enabling SSL encryption</title>
<step>
<para>Enable the HTTPS protocol:</para>
<programlisting>nova_metadata_protocol = https</programlisting>
</step>
<step>
<para>Determine whether insecure SSL connections are accepted for
Compute metadata server requests. The default value is
<option>False</option>:</para>
<programlisting>nova_metadata_insecure = False</programlisting>
</step>
<step>
<para>Specify the path to the client certificate:</para>
<programlisting>nova_client_cert = <replaceable>PATH_TO_CERT</replaceable></programlisting>
</step>
<step>
<para>Specify the path to the private key:</para>
<programlisting>nova_client_priv_key = <replaceable>PATH_TO_KEY</replaceable></programlisting>
</step>
</procedure>
</section>
</section>