Tenant data privacy

OpenStack is designed to support multitenancy and those tenants will most probably have different data requirements. As a cloud builder or operator, you must ensure your OpenStack environment addresses data privacy concerns and regulations. In this chapter we will address data residency and disposal as it pertains to OpenStack implementations.

• Data privacy concerns
  • Data residency
  • Data disposal
• Data encryption
  • Volume encryption
  • Ephemeral disk encryption
  • Object Storage objects
  • Block Storage performance and backends
  • Network data
• Key management
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