Thanks for the advice Frode.

Gav

On Tue, 20 Jun 2023 at 23:33, Frode Nordahl <frode.nord...@canonical.com>
wrote:

> Hello, Gavin,
>
> On Tue, Jun 20, 2023 at 10:55 PM Gavin McKee via discuss
> <ovs-discuss@openvswitch.org> wrote:
> > Is it possible to control who gets to write to OVN NB ?
>
> With the Southbound DB there is an OVN RBAC feature that may be used [0],
> however no such feature currently exists for the Northbound DB.
>
> > I want to ensure that no hypervisor with ovn-nbctl can write
> configuration into the North DB.  Is there any approach I can use?
>
> With the lack of RBAC for NB DB there are a couple of other approaches that
> could be used:
>
> 1. Set up a firewall on the units providing the NB DB, not allowing
>    connections from hypervisors.
>
> 2. Enable TLS/SSL and use a different certificate chain for NB and SB DBs.
>    When enabled, the ovsdb-server will verify the clients certificate and
>    refuse connections from those it cannot verify.
>
> 0: https://docs.ovn.org/en/latest/tutorials/ovn-rbac.html
>
> --
> Frode Nordahl
>
> > Gav
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