generic driver: support additional SSH options for service instance

Bug #1944980 reported by Arturo Borrero Gonzalez
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OpenStack Shared File Systems Service (Manila)
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Bug Description

Dear Manila developers,

thanks for your good work with the project, really appreciated.

This is a feature request. In our environment, SSH to virtual machines need to be proxyed using an intermediate SSH host.

When the generic driver creates a service instance, manila-share is unable to contact the VM because it wont use the SSH proxy.

I've read the source code and I found at least 3 places where this would need to be supported:

* on the utils module, the SSHPool class https://opendev.org/openstack/manila/src/branch/master/manila/utils.py#L105
* on the generic driver, the _ssh_exec() method https://opendev.org/openstack/manila/src/branch/master/manila/share/drivers/generic.py#L142
* on the service_instance module, the _test_server_connection() method https://opendev.org/openstack/manila/src/branch/master/manila/share/drivers/service_instance.py#L666

Moreover, the _test_server_connection() uses a raw connection to TCP/22. Assuming TCP/22 for SSH is in general fine, but perhaps it should be allowed to be configured.
Instead of a raw connection, I would suggest moving that logic somehow into the SSHPool class in the utils module, so if a proxy is configured, it can reuse such configuration for the connectivity test.

In summary I'm suggesting at least the following new configuration options:

* ssh_proxy_host = <FQDN, defaults to None>
* ssh_proxy_user = <String, defaults to None>
* ssh_tcp_port = <Integer, defaults to 22>

Then build a connection similar to what this SSH config would do:

* ProxyCommand ssh -a -W %h:%p <email address hidden>

I'm also open to follow other instructions to workaround this SSH limitation we're experiencing.

Tags: driver generic
Vida Haririan (vhariria)
tags: added: gene
tags: added: generic
removed: gene
tags: added: driver
Vida Haririan (vhariria)
Changed in manila:
importance: Undecided → Medium
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Vida Haririan (vhariria) wrote :

Hi Arturo,

Thank you for raising this bug.

The bug was discussed at the community weekly IRC call. Please review additional comments at https://meetings.opendev.org/meetings/manila/2021/manila.2021-09-30-15.01.log.html and let us know if you would like to contribute to this fix.

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Arturo Borrero Gonzalez (arturoborrero) wrote :

I'm sorry I don't have time at the moment to work on a patch. However, depending on how long it takes for someone to create one, I could contribute by testing the patch on my deployment.

Idea: it seems paramiko supports parsing and loading configuration from a file. Perhaps the easiest way to address this is to simply allow users to specify a paramiko configuration file.
So, instead of adding a bunch of config options to manila.conf, simply add something like tihs:

# load paramiko SSH configuration file
# see http://docs.paramiko.org/en/stable/api/config.html for format & available options
ssh_paramiko_config_file = /path/to/a/file.conf

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Vida Haririan (vhariria) wrote :
Changed in manila:
importance: Medium → Low
Vida Haririan (vhariria)
Changed in manila:
status: New → Triaged
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