I have an architecture as shown below:
sorry for the mess with all the ports
So, the EC2 instance it is running and I am able to access the instance via SSH (port 22). I am also able to access the contents of the container which is running in the EC2 instance if I forward the ports via SSH. BUT, I am not able to access this same content if I try to connect via public IP of the EC2.
As you can see the security group is created and the ports allowed.
When I run in the EC2: sudo firewall-cmd --list-all I can see that the ports: 80/tcp 8080/tcp 8071/tcp 8063/tcp are allowed.
I am pretty new in AWS/Docker and cannot figure it out how to access container via public IP
I have tried updating security groups and also allowing ports in EC2 thinking that maybe firewall might block the communication but still the access was not possible
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I am trying to install KafkaMagic on ec2 to manage our kafka cluster. I created an EC2 instance on our VPC and added the following inbound rules to the associated security group:
I then made sure the Network ACL had inbound rules to allow traffic
Where I saw that * is a catch all rule so rule 100 should overwrite this. I then connected to my ec2 instance using EC2 Instance Connect and downloaded KafkaMagic and got it running on localhost:5000 of my ec2 instance. Using the public dns for the ec2 instance i connected to {publicIp}:5000 where publicIp was copy pasted. I was unable to connect.
Im assuming there is a gap in my understanding of what happened. Where did I go wrong along the way setting this up? Im very new to AWS and I might be missing an important concept
I needed to run the application on a non localhost url. I updated the kafka magic url through this link: https://www.kafkamagic.com/download/#configuration to be on 0.0.0.0:5000 and then I was able to use the public ip associated with my instance to run the application on port 5000
I set up an OpenVPN EC2 instance on AWS and it has security groups like
I downloaded the client.ovpn file and can successfully connect to it like sudo openvpn --config client.ovpn in Ubuntu (and also via Network Manager after importing the config). All good.
Now I want to make it so my other EC2 instances (that host the actual app) can only be accessed via the VPN, and can't be SSH'd into directly for example. The security group of one of these EC2 instances looks like
where here I'm allowing inbound traffic on port 22 from the Private IPv4 addresses of the OVPN server.
However, if I connect to the VPN and try to SSH to the app EC2 instance it just times out, nor can I access the web when connected to the VPN.
If I allow SSH on port 22 from 0.0.0.0 then I can SSH in and no issues.
Could anyone point me toward what the problem might be?
Could it be because they are on different subnets?
The simple solution: Forward all traffic through OpenVPN. Restrict and connect to your instances with OpenVPN's public IP, connect to your EC2s through their public IPs
The reason why your solution did not work as I understand it
AWS VPC is kind of like a VPN already
You are trying to connect to your EC2 through their public IP which routes through the internet so it makes litte sense allowing OpenVPN's private IP as to talk with EC2's public IP the server that you are installing OpenVPN shall use their public IP
If you must use OpenVPN and does not want the internal (OpenVPN to EC2) connections to surface to the internet, the EC2 instances must join OpenVPN's private network, there, everyone can talk using the private IPs of OpenVPN's range
Or extend AWS VPC with OpenVPN
Or see if split-tunnel work which "May allow users to access their LAN devices while connected to VPN"
I am connecting 2 docker container one python app container and redis container with each other using ECS. When I ssh into ec2 instance and curl localhost:5000 it gives the output which means the container are running and python is connected with redis. I am trying to achieve the result with ECS Ec2
But when I search the public ip of ec2 it doesnot show anything. My task configuration setting:
and in python container I am having this setting, pulling the image from ecr and giving the port 5000:5000 and in link giving the name of redis so the it can connect to redis container. What setting Am I missing so that I can hit the python app container without doing ssh to the ec2-instance and doing curl localhost:5000
If the application is accessible on localhost then possible reasons are
Instance security group does not allow 5000 Port, so check the security group and allow HTTP traffic on port 5000.
An instance might be in a private subnet, but how you do ssh from bastion or directly? if directly then the issue should be resolved by following step 1.
Use the public IP that you used for ssh and it should work
http://ec2Public_Ip:5000
I have an app which is deployed via Docker on one of our legacy servers and want to deploy it on AWS. All instances reside on the company's private network. Private IP addresses:
My local machine: 10.0.2.15
EC2 instance: 10.110.208.142
If I run nmap 10.110.208.142 from within the Docker container, I see port 443 is open as intended. But I if run that command from another computer on the network, e.g. from my local machine, I see that port is closed.
How do I open that port to the rest of the network? In the EC2 instance, I've tried:
sudo iptables -I INPUT -p tcp -m tcp --dport 443 -j ACCEPT
and it does not resolve the issue. I've also allowed the appropriate inbound connections on port 443 in my AWS security groups (screenshot below):
Thanks,
You cannot access EC2 instances in your AWS VPC network from your network outside of AWS using private IP addresses of the EC2 instances using the public Internet. This is why EC2 instances can have two types of IP addresses: Public and Private.
If you setup a VPN from your corporate network to your VPC then you will be able to access EC2 instances using private IP addresses. Your network and the AWS VPC network cannot have overlapping networks (at least not without fancier configurations).
You can also assign a public IP address (which can change on stop / restart) or add an Elastic IP address to your EC2 instances and then access them over the public Internet.
In either solution you will also need to configure your security groups to allow access over the desired ports.
Found the issue. I'm using nginx and nginx failed to start, which explains why port 443 appeared to be closed.
In my particular case, nginx failed because I was missing the proper ssl certificate.
I have created the ECS cluster, which as of now contains only one EC2 instance.
I have deployed my node application using docker.
I tried accessing my application running on 3000 port on this EC2 instance using its public IP address. But somehow I am not getting response.
I tried to ping this IP, I get the response back. Same docker container is working fine on other instance.
You must map the container port to your ec2 instance port. first open the port number you want to access with public address by ec2 security group
First, open ec2 instance port:
in EC2 console > click in your instance > security groups
Then open a port in inbound and outbound settings.
Next, map this port with your container port (3000):
ECS > Task Definitions > your task > your container > mapping ports
Set host port: port opened, container port: 3000, protocol: tcp
Okay, it's hard to tell, but since this is probably access issue, you can try the followings.
Check if port 3000 is open in the Security Group that tied to to the ECS instance.
SSH into the EC2 instance, and check if your node app can be access via port 3000. You need to enable the SSH in the Security Group for the EC2 for this.
The new ECS support dynamic port mapping, so make sure your task definition is configured to use port 3000.
That should help you narrow down where the real issue is.