FWaaS - Firewall Explicit Commit Operation

Registered by Sumit Naiksatam

In Neutron Firewall as a Service (FWaaS), we currently support an implicit commit mode, wherein a change made to a firewall_rule is propagated immediately to all the firewalls that use this rule (via their firewall_policy association), and the rule gets applied in the backend firewalls. This might be acceptable, however this is different from the explicit commit semantics which most firewalls support. Having an explicit commit operation ensures that multiple rules can be applied atomically, as opposed to in the implicit case where each rule is applied atomically and thus opens up the possibility of security holes between two successive rule applications.

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Status:
Complete
Approver:
Mark McClain
Priority:
Undefined
Drafter:
Sumit Naiksatam
Direction:
Needs approval
Assignee:
Sumit Naiksatam
Definition:
Obsolete
Series goal:
None
Implementation:
Needs Code Review
Milestone target:
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Started by
Sumit Naiksatam
Completed by
Armando Migliaccio

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Nov-13-2015(armax): If someone is interested in pursuing it, this must be re-submitted according to guidelines defined in [1], especially in light of fwaas v2 api proposal.

[1] http://docs.openstack.org/developer/neutron/policies/blueprints.html

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Moving to Next since this will be discussed at the next summit.

Gerrit topic: https://review.openstack.org/#q,topic:bp/neutron-fwaas-explicit-commit,n,z

Addressed by: https://review.openstack.org/41353
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