I have this doubt about GCP firewall rules in the default network.
I create two VMs in two different regions inside the same network and so they can ping via internal ip each other. Why if I delete the firewall rule default-allow-internal they are still able to ping them each other via internal ip?
Instead, if I also remove the default-allow-icmp rule they are not able to ping each other via internal ip.
As per the GCP documentation default-allow-internal allows ingress connections for all protocols and ports among instances in the network. If you delete this FW rule instance can be pinged using the FW rule default-allow-icmp and it's intended behavior.
FW rule default-allow-icmp Allows ingress ICMP traffic from any source to any instance in the network.
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I am fairly new to GCP networking and I could use some guidance. I'm sure there is a simple explanation for what I'd like to accomplish. I believe its just a simple firewall rule but I'm not sure how to configure the rule.
I current have 3 subnets in the same VPC network. I'd like subnet-a to be a "jump-network" for admins doing work on compute instances in subnet-b and subnet-c over various ports. i.e. 22, 3389, 80, 443 etc etc. Admins will work on a jump VM (windows) in subnet-a and access compute instances (both windows/linux) in subnet-b and subnet-c. (using private IP addresses)
I'm sure there are simple firewall rules to allow connectivity between subnets inside the same VPC. Can someone help me? What are the firewall rules?
Thanks. Any and all input from the community is greatly appreciated.
Ive tried several firewall rules from various google searches, but I don't want to leave my network open to the malicious threat actors by incorrectly configuring the firewall.
As answered by #JohnHanley in another post
VPC subnets within the same VPC can communicate with each other. The VPC Firewall rule default-allow-internal allows all TCP, UDP, and ICMP traffic between resources within the same VPC. The key is to use the internal (private) IP address.
When creating VPC Networks, you have the option to automatically create default firewall rules such as default-allow-internal which allows connectivity between instances on any port. As mentioned, you'll just have to use the Internal IP address of the instance(s) that you are trying to connect to
You may refer to this documentation as a helpful guide for creating simple Firewall rules for your use case.
So right now I have 4 subnets per availability zone: The internet facing "entrypoint" subnet (associated with a load balancer), the generic "service" subnet for internal computation, the "database" subnet for all things data related, and the "external request" subnet for making requests out to the internet. This defines essentially 4 classes of EC2 instances.
I am supposed to now create security groups for these 4 classes of EC2 instances. What I'm wondering is how to do that correctly (I am using terraform).
Can I create 1 security group for "ingress" (incoming) traffic, and a 2nd security group for "egress" (outgoing) traffic, for each class, for each connection type?
So basically, I want this. I want the internet entrypoint to talk to the service. The service can only respond to requests from the internet, it doesn't make any external internet requests itself. The service can talk to the database and the external requesting class. The database can only talk to the service, and the external request can only respond back to the service. The entrypoint can come in as HTTP or HTTPS (or websockets, is that just HTTPS?). It comes in on port 443. This is the load balancer. It then converts the request to HTTP and connects to the compute with port 3000. Should I have a separate port for each different connection type? (So the service layer would have 1 port for the database to respond to like 4000, 1 port for the external request layer to respond to like 5000, etc.). Or does that part matter? Lets say we have the ports thing though.
sg1 (security group 1): ingress 443 -> 3000 (load balancer -> service)
sg2: egress 3000 -> internet? is that 0.0.0.0/0? I don't want it to make free requests out, only to connected clients.
sg3: ingress 3000 -> 4000 (service -> database), specifying the database subnet
sg3: egress 4000 -> 3000 (database -> service), specifying the service subnet, etc.
Am I on the right track? I am new to this and trying to figure it out. Any guidance would be much appreciated, I've been reading the AWS docs for the past week but there's little in terms of best practices and architecture.
You can specify upto 5 individual security groups per ENI (Elastic Network Interface). All available rules are evaluated whenever either the inbound or outbound ingress rule is established.
Regarding communication, security group rules establish a tunnel (allowing stateful communication) during any network communication allowing bi-directional communication as long as the initial connection was allowed by the security group.
Security groups are stateful — if you send a request from your instance, the response traffic for that request is allowed to flow in regardless of inbound security group rules. Responses to allowed inbound traffic are allowed to flow out, regardless of outbound rules.
For example:
Inbound rule allows SSH on port 22 from a specific IP address, no outbound rules for port 22 exist. A user can safely SSH to the server with no connection issues, but is unable to SSH to another server. Add outbound rules if the server should be able to speak outbound, by default it will be allow all.
From this above example this means if you allow no outbound rules for HTTP/HTTPS only inbound connections over HTTP/HTTPS will allow it to return. Also be aware for patching that you will not be able to download from the internet.
Regarding the source, perhaps rather than specifying subnets you can reference the logical security group name instead. This would mean if a resource in any subnet has that security group attached the target resource would allow inbound access (this only works if the connection is private host to private host).
The source of the traffic and the destination port or port range. The source can be another security group, an IPv4 or IPv6 CIDR block, a single IPv4 or IPv6 address, or a prefix list ID.
I would recommend trying to keep the resource realm within a single security group (i.e. DB server all in a single security group) primarily to reduce the overhead of management.
More information is available at the Security groups for your VPC page.
Is there anyway to allow Google Memorystore to be accessible to the outside world and just whitelist connections by IP Address?
I have some off google services that need access to the redis but it doesnt seem possible to hit Memorystore with an IP.
You can follow the solution proposed in this other thread. This way, you would be using that Compute Engine instance as a proxy and you would just need to configure some firewall rules to only allow specific IP addresses to access that VM.
To put it in a few steps:
Create your VM in the same VPC your Google Memorystore instance is using
Add firewall rules to deny all traffic (ingress and egress) and other higher priority rules allowing all traffic (again, ingress and egress) from your desired IP addresses targeting your VPC
Use port forwarding as explained in the mentioned thread
I am very new to AWS and networking. I have been playing with network ACL. I realized that if I don't allow outbound port 443 (HTTPS) on the network ACL, I wouldn't be able to use a browser to go to https://www.google.com from within the EC2 instance in the subnet associated with this ACL.
Likewise, if I don't allow outbound port 80, I wouldn't be able to go to http://www.cnn.com.
This confused me. When I allow port 80 outbound on the ACL, am I allowing the EC2 to talk to port 80 on the CNN server, from an ephemeral port on my EC2, or am I allowing the EC2 to initiate a connection from port 80 on the EC2?
use the security groups at instance level to have security at instance level.And unlike security group, ACL is stateless and works at subnet level i.e if you want your instances to communicate over port 80(http) then you have add an inbound and outbound rule allowing port 80.
You don't have to add any rules. The default network ACL is configured to allow all traffic to flow in and out of the subnets to which it is associated. Each network ACL also includes a rule whose rule number is an asterisk. This rule ensures that if a packet doesn't match any of the other numbered rules, it's denied. You can't modify or remove this rule.
Rules allow all IPv6 traffic to flow in and out of your subnet. We also add rules whose rule numbers are an asterisk (Catch All) that ensures that a packet is denied if it doesn't match any of the other defined numbered rules.
A network ACL has separate inbound and outbound rules (Stateless), and each rule can either allow or deny traffic.
Out Bound Rules allow outbound traffic from the subnet to the Internet. In other words it is matching the traffic flow with the defined rules in the ACLs list and apply it (ALLOW/DENY).
If you have private instances that should not be accessible by public users in the internet it is best practice from security point of view to place these instances in a private subnet and use NAT instance in a public subnet and make all traffic flow goes through this NAT instance to make patch updates and get the public access.
For more information, Check Amazon Docs
Today, I tried to make a blog with Google Cloud Platform.
So, I made a Computer Engine Instance and install Apache2 on Ubuntu 16.
And then, clicked the Outer IP address, but it show me "connection denied.."
Why this happen?
I allowed HTTPS % HTTP Traffic also.
And I can't find a menu like AWS's Security Group...
So, this problem irritate me...
(I'm not a English native, so documentation is so hard read.. please, give me a tip for this matter)
TL;DR - You need to open up ports using firewall rules to allow ingress traffic into your VMs.
Google Compute Engine (GCE) blocks all traffic to your VMs by default for the purpose of keeping your infrastructure secure. You can open up ports as needed and manage the security yourself. The default created network has few exceptions in terms of allowing traffic from other VMs in the network, but still does not allow traffic from outside the network.
Firewalls
Each VPC network has its own firewall controlling access to the
instances.
All traffic to instances, even from other instances, is blocked by the
firewall unless firewall rules are created to allow it. The exception
is the default VPC network that is created automatically with each
project. This network has certain automatically created default
firewall rules.
For all VPC networks except the automatically created default VPC
network, you must create any firewall rules you need. To allow
incoming network connections on a manually created VPC network, you
need to set up firewall rules to permit these connections. Each
firewall rule represents a single rule that determines what
connections are permitted to enter or leave instances. It is possible
to have many rules and to be as general or specific with these rules
as you need. For example, you can create a firewall rule that allows
all traffic through port 80 to all instances, or you can create a rule
that only allows traffic from one specific IP or IP range to one
specific instance.
Firewall rules are connection tracking, and therefore only regulate
the initial connection. Once a connection has been established with an
instance, traffic is permitted in both directions over that
connection.
Since you say apache2 package on Ubuntu, the instructions I share here will guide you on how to open up port 80 on your VM and make it accessible through the VM's public IP. You can do the same for any additional ports as needed.
Using gcloud to allow ingress traffic for tcp:80 into your VM
# Create a new firewall rule that allows INGRESS tcp:80 with VMs containing tag 'allow-tcp-80'
gcloud compute firewall-rules create rule-allow-tcp-80 --source-ranges 0.0.0.0/0 --target-tags allow-tcp-80 --allow tcp:80
# Add the 'allow-tcp-80' tag to a VM named VM_NAME
gcloud compute instances add-tags VM_NAME --tags allow-tcp-80
# If you want to list all the GCE firewall rules
gcloud compute firewall-rules list
Using Cloud Console to allow ingress traffic for tcp:80 into your VM
Menu -> Networking -> Firewall Rules
Create Firewall Rule
Choose the following settings for the firewall rule:
Name for the rule - rule-allow-tcp-80 or any other name you prefer for this firewall rule.
Direction is ingress
Action on match is Allow
Targets is Specified target tags
Target tags is allow-tcp-80
Source IP ranges is 0.0.0.0/0 (or if you have a set of IP ranges you know will be the only ones accessing this, use them instead for stronger restriction)
Protocols and ports is tcp:80
Select Create button to create this firewall rule.
Once you've created the above firewall rule you will need to add the tag allow-tcp-80 to all the instances where this rule needs to be applied. In your case:
Open up the GCE VM Instances page
Select the instance where Jenkins is running
In the VM instance details page, select the Edit link on the very top.
In the Network Tags box, enter allow-tcp-80 to apply the tag to this instance.
Select Save to save the changes.
Now give it a few seconds to a few minutes for the changes to take effect and you will be able to access the jenkins web URL.
You can also go through the documentation for Firewall rules to get a better understanding of how they work and how to configure them.
WARNING: By using a source range of 0.0.0.0/0, you're opening up the port on the VM to the entire internet. This lets clients anywhere in the world to connect to the application running on this port. Be fully aware of the security implications of doing this.