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diff --git a/doc/index.rst b/doc/index.rst index 93b9aeeb7..568f3f001 100644 --- a/doc/index.rst +++ b/doc/index.rst @@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ Kolla Overview image-building advanced-configuration operating-kolla - selinux + security liberty-deployment-warning Kolla Services diff --git a/doc/selinux.rst b/doc/security.rst index dd89a70ca..f61e241b0 100644 --- a/doc/selinux.rst +++ b/doc/security.rst @@ -1,16 +1,20 @@ -.. _selinux: +.. _security: -================ -SELinux in Kolla -================ +============== +Kolla Security +============== -Overview -======== +Non Root containers +=================== +The OpenStack services, with a few exceptions, run as non root inside of Kolla's +containers. Kolla uses the Docker provided USER flag to set the appropriate +user for each serivce. + +SELinux +======= The state of SELinux in Kolla is a work in progress. The short answer is you must disable it until selinux polices are written for the Docker containers. -The Long Answer -=============== To understand why Kolla needs to set certain selinux policies for services that you wouldn't expect to need them (rabbitmq, mariadb, glance, etc.) we must take a step back and talk about Docker. @@ -23,14 +27,14 @@ It was suggested data containers could solve this issue by only holding data if they were never recreated, leading to a scary state where you could lose access to your data if the wrong command was executed. The real answer to this problem came in Docker 1.9 with the introduction of named volumes. You could now -address volumes directly by name removing the need for so called "data -containers" all together. +address volumes directly by name removing the need for so called **data +containers** all together. Another solution to the persistent data issue is to use a host bind mount which -involves making, for sake of example, host directory /var/lib/mysql available -inside the container at /var/lib/mysql. This absolutely solves the problem of +involves making, for sake of example, host directory ``var/lib/mysql`` available +inside the container at ``var/lib/mysql``. This absolutely solves the problem of persistent data, but it introduces another security issue, permissions. With -this host bind mount solution the data in /var/lib/mysql will be owned by the +this host bind mount solution the data in ``var/lib/mysql`` will be owned by the mysql user in the container. Unfortunately, that mysql user in the container could have any UID/GID and thats who will own the data outside the container introducing a potential security risk. Additionally, this method dirties the |