Shared File Systems

The Shared File Systems service (manila) provides a set of services for management of shared file systems in a multi-tenant cloud environment. It is similar to how OpenStack provides block-based storage management through the OpenStack Block Storage service (cinder) project. With the Shared File Systems service, you can create a shared file system and manage its properties, such as visibility, accessibility and usage quotas.

The Shared File Systems service works with various storage providers that use the following shared file system protocols: NFS, CIFS, GlusterFS, and HDFS.

The Shared File Systems service serves the same purpose as Amazon Elastic File System (EFS).

• Introduction
  • General security information
• Network and security models
  • Share back ends modes
  • Flat vs segmented networking
  • Network plug-ins
• Security services
  • Introduction to security services
  • Security services management
• Share access control
• Share type access control
• Policies
• Checklist
  • Check-Shared-01: Is user/group ownership of config files set to root/manila?
  • Check-Shared-02: Are strict permissions set for configuration files?
  • Check-Shared-03: Is OpenStack Identity used for authentication?
  • Check-Shared-04: Is TLS enabled for authentication?
  • Check-Shared-05: Does Shared File Systems contact with Compute over TLS?
  • Check-Shared-06: Does Shared File Systems contact with Networking over TLS?
  • Check-Shared-07: Does Shared File Systems contact with Block Storage over TLS?
  • Check-Shared-08: Is max size for the request body set to default (114688)?