WLCG Traceability and Isolation WG (Vidyo meeting)

Wednesday 23 Nov 2016, 16:00 → 17:30 Europe/Zurich

31/S-028 (CERN)

Present: Vincent Brillault, Maarten Litmaath, Andrew McNab, Brian Bockelman, Ian Neilson, Mischa Sallé, Miguel Martinez Pedreira

● Previous meeting minutes

No comment on the notes of the previous meeting

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● Singularity

• Brian presented his ongoing work on Singularity as a potential solution for isolation (see slides):
  • Provides isolation (no traceability), already has enough features to replace glexec
  • Integrated with other systems: HTCondor, OSG VO, SLURM (Singularity 2.3.0)
    • Running Singularity in Singularity is not possible (due to SUID filtering)
  • OSG working on officially supporting Singularity in ~June 2017, aiming at replacing glexec (if agreed to by stakeholders)
• Singularity appears to the WG as the current best solution and is now evaluating it (upcoming actions):
  • Security reviews (due to SUID):
    • Brian did not get it accepted for review (external company doing reviews for OSG), will push it again next quarter
    • Maarteen and Vincent will follow-up with EGI
  • Testing:
    • Vincent to follow-up with the CERN site, to see if a small dedicated HTCondor cluster could have Singularity installed
    • Vincent? to follow-up with CernVM to have Singularity installed (without SUID)

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● New traceability model

Vincent presented a new possible model for incident response, moving part of the security logs from the site to the VO.

Action: Vincent to write down a more formal proposal

Open question: How to validate the model?

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● Next meeting

The date of Jan 18th was decided as the candidate for the next meeting

16:00 → 16:05 Previous meeting minutes

See https://indico.cern.ch/event/563528/note/

Speaker: Vincent Brillault (CERN)

No comment on the notes of the previous meeting

16:05 → 16:45 Singularity

Speaker: Brian Paul Bockelman (University of Nebraska-Lincoln (US))

Singularity-isolation.pdf

• Brian presented his ongoing work on Singularity as a potential solution for isolation (see slides):
  • Provides isolation (no traceability), already has enough features to replace glexec
  • Integrated with other systems: HTCondor, OSG VO, SLURM (Singularity 2.3.0)
    • Running Singularity in Singularity is not possible (due to SUID filtering)
  • OSG working on officially supporting Singularity in ~June 2017, aiming at replacing glexec (if agreed to by stakeholders)
• Singularity appears to the WG as the current best solution and is now evaluating it (upcoming actions):
  • Security reviews (due to SUID):
    • Brian did not get it accepted for review (external company doing reviews for OSG), will push it again next quarter
    • Maarteen and Vincent will follow-up with EGI
  • Testing:
    • Vincent to follow-up with the CERN site, to see if a small dedicated HTCondor cluster could have Singularity installed
    • Vincent? to follow-up with CernVM to have Singularity installed (without SUID)

16:45 → 17:05 New traceability model

Let's agree on the direction we are taking and its operational requirements

Speaker: Vincent Brillault (CERN)

201611-Traceability_Isolation_WG.pdf

Vincent presented a new possible model for incident response, moving part of the security logs from the site to the VO.

Action: Vincent to write down a more formal proposal

Open question: How to validate the model?

17:05 → 17:10 Next meeting

Speaker: Vincent Brillault (CERN)

The date of Jan 18th was decided as the candidate for the next meeting