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+==================================
+Enable TLS for OpenStack endpoints
+==================================
+
+https://blueprints.launchpad.net/kolla-ansible/+spec/add-ssl-internal-network
+
+This proposal describes implementation of the internal TLS encryption for
+OpenStack services deployed with kolla-ansible, i.e. adding support to make
+OpenStack internal and admin endpoints encrypted, as well as encrypting traffic
+between HAProxy and OpenStack services. Other services that are are out of scope of this
+document. Also, more workflows (using company CA, using certificates already
+provisioned on the hosts) are out of the scope, and shall be discussed separately.
+
+Problem description
+===================
+
+Kolla-ansible can only enable TLS encryption on the external OpenStack
+endpoints, and both internal and admin endpoints are unencrypted, leaving
+inter-service communication unsecured. However, some deployments may require an
+end-to-end encryption for all the traffic, which is currently not possible.
+
+
+Use cases
+---------
+1. There is an external requirement for the deployment to support end-to-end
+   encryption of passwords, or all traffic.
+
+Proposed change
+===============
+
+This spec proposes extending the encryption to internal TLS traffic between
+services by allowing operator to provide a separate set of HAProxy
+certificates, that can be used to enable HTTPS encryption on the internal and
+admin endpoints, as well as encrypting backend traffic from HAProxy to
+OpenStack services. Optionally, a support for self-signed certificates can be
+extended, so that deployment can be done without certificates signed by a
+trusted CA, while still validating the backend connections.
+
+Security impact
+---------------
+
+Implementing this spec will allow operators to deploy OpenStack with end-to-end
+encryption of the control plane, preventing exposure of passwords and tokens.
+
+Performance Impact
+------------------
+
+Enabling TLS for all inter-service communication will have a small but
+measurable impact, due to the requirements for the TLS handshake for each API
+call. It's not clear whether OpenStack services can be configured to keep their
+HTTP sessions alive, lowering the impact of that change.
+
+Alternatives
+------------
+
+An alternate approach has been suggested [1]_, where HAProxy terminates all TLS
+traffic, and then either speaks to the localhost backend over unencrypted
+connection, or proxies the request to another HAProxy if the local backend is
+down. However, the concern has been raised that this approach would not be
+enough to satisfy requirements of some operators. Additionally, the
+implementation proposed by this document seems more in line with how backend
+TLS is implemented by other deployment methods like openstack-ansible [2]_.
+
+.. [1] https://review.opendev.org/#/c/548407/
+.. [2] https://docs.openstack.org/openstack-ansible-haproxy_server/pike/configure-haproxy.html, search for `haproxy_backend_ssl`
+
+Implementation
+==============
+
+Assignee(s)
+-----------
+
+[TBD]
+
+Milestones
+----------
+
+[TBD]
+
+Work Items
+----------
+
+1. Implement frontend encryption for internal and admin endpoints:
+   - Allow for distinct internal and external certificates
+   - Add support for merging public and internal/admin networks by reusing
+     same endpoints.
+   - Support existing deployments by setting correct defaults that behave as
+     in stein.
+2. Implement per-service backend TLS encryption
+   - Introduce per-service ansible variables to control backend TLS encryption
+   - Pass the variable to the HAProxy template via the haproxy data structure
+     in service's defaults/main.yaml
+   - based on the variable generate backend configuration with/without
+     encryption.
+3. Add support for using self-signed/untrusted certificates both for frontend
+   and backend connections. 
+   - Change all authorization configs to add `insecure` parameter, which optionally
+     disables certificate verification.
+   - Ensure that all tasks that interact with OpenStack APIs support disabling
+     certificate verification.
+   - Fix heat-api bootstrap process, which currently requires valid certficate,
+     probably by moving domain/user creation out of the container, and into the
+     ansible itself.
+   - Allow for providing a CA used to verify connections to the service backends.
+   - Change the process of generating self-signed certificates to use a single
+     CA for both external and internal connections, and use that CA for
+     validating backends.
+
+Testing
+=======
+
+A new test scenario will be implemented that does the deployment with internal
+and external TLS enabled, running the same set of tests as now, but over
+encrypted connection.
+
+Documentation Impact
+====================
+
+Documentation has to be expanded, describing TLS requirements for the internal
+certificate, as well as all ansible variables used to configure TLS settings
+for the deployment.
+
+References
+==========
+None