cinder/doc/source/admin/index.rst
Gorka Eguileor bb8771436e Add explanations on safe delete
We keep seeing people concerned about data leakage and thorough deletion
of data from volumes on volume deletion [1][2], and Cinder currently
only worries about the data leakage, not the stealing of the physical
disks.

In order to clarify this for administrators and to reduce the number of
specs proposed to address this issue we are adding additional
documentation on security aspects as well as data leakage.

This patch was decided as an action from the discussion during the
Wallaby PTG [3].

[1]: https://review.opendev.org/#/c/758375/
[2]: https://review.opendev.org/#/c/759553/
[3]: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/CinderWallabyPTGSummary#Two_proposed_specs_on_the_same_topic_.28mutually_assured_destruction.29

Change-Id: I9f8d413cf8337e75241ad24c85692135b34a17fc
Implements: blueprint specify-data-secure-deletion
2021-03-17 14:04:20 +01:00

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.. _block_storage:
=====================
Cinder Administration
=====================
The OpenStack Block Storage service works through the interaction of
a series of daemon processes named ``cinder-*`` that reside
persistently on the host machine or machines. You can run all the
binaries from a single node, or spread across multiple nodes. You can
also run them on the same node as other OpenStack services.
To administer the OpenStack Block Storage service, it is helpful to
understand a number of concepts. You must make certain choices when
you configure the Block Storage service in OpenStack. The bulk of the
options come down to two choices - single node or multi-node install.
You can read a longer discussion about `Storage Decisions`_ in the
`OpenStack Operations Guide`_.
OpenStack Block Storage enables you to add extra block-level storage
to your OpenStack Compute instances. This service is similar to the
Amazon EC2 Elastic Block Storage (EBS) offering.
.. toctree::
:maxdepth: 1
blockstorage-security.rst
blockstorage-accelerate-image-compression.rst
blockstorage-api-throughput.rst
blockstorage-manage-volumes.rst
blockstorage-troubleshoot.rst
blockstorage-availability-zone-type.rst
generalized_filters.rst
blockstorage-backup-disks.rst
blockstorage-boot-from-volume.rst
blockstorage-basic-volume-qos.rst
blockstorage-capacity-based-qos.rst
blockstorage-consistency-groups.rst
blockstorage-driver-filter-weighing.rst
blockstorage-get-capabilities.rst
blockstorage-groups.rst
blockstorage-image-volume-cache.rst
blockstorage-lio-iscsi-support.rst
blockstorage-multi-backend.rst
blockstorage-nfs-backend.rst
blockstorage-over-subscription.rst
blockstorage-ratelimit-volume-copy-bandwidth.rst
blockstorage-volume-backed-image.rst
blockstorage-volume-backups-export-import.rst
blockstorage-volume-backups.rst
blockstorage-volume-migration.rst
blockstorage-volume-multiattach.rst
blockstorage-volume-number-weigher.rst
.. _`Storage Decisions`: https://docs.openstack.org/arch-design/design-storage/design-storage-arch.html
.. _`OpenStack Operations Guide`: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/OpsGuide