I have a azure storage account with firewall setting enabled to allow only specific IP address.
now i have azure web app and web job and from these i am connecting to the storage account to create delete blobs using connection string.but since storage account needs IP address of the web app to access it am not able to do so .
i have tried using inbound and outbound IP address from web app properties those are not working?
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We have a VPN server in AWS which is also a AD domain controller that controls our local domain (private subnet) in AWS.
We want to create a pipeline from Azure DevOps through VPN server (Which is also a AD Domain controller) to our other server and deploy the project on the server on private subnet.
So my question is, Can we do any of the things mentioned below? and if yes how can we achieve it?:
Is there a way to make Azure DevOps to use VPN connection to connect directly to server on private subnet? and is it secure?
Is there a way after adding the server on the private subnet to the server list in AD Domain controller server and create a pipeline to the AD server but tell the AD server to deploy it on other server listed in the Server Management?
• Yes, there is a way through which we can connect Azure DevOps to the AD Domain controller server which itself is the VPN server in AWS. For that purpose, you will have to ensure that your AD Domain controller server or VPN server is accessible from the internet and since it is hosted on AWS, consider it to be hosted on on-premises environment for this solution perspective. Thus, I would suggest you deploy Azure DevOps agents and agent pools such that they deploy artifacts and other required data to the ADDC or VPN server in AWS as they should have ‘line of sight’ connectivity to the VPN server since access to internet is needed for these agents to connect to Azure pipelines as shown in the below diagram.
Also, rather than hosted agent pools which are used for Azure resources in the virtual network on Azure itself, use default agents which need to be configured for on-premises environment.
• Since Azure DevOps agents communicate with the VPN servers in AWS as stated above, you can further create route tables between the private subnet and the subnet in which VPN is hosted in AWS as well as whitelist the IP address of the connecting VPN gateway and related resources in that VPC. Also, peering between the different VPCs if private subnets are hosted in it can also work by configuring the proper route tables and allowing the appropriate IP addresses in AWS.
Kindly find the documentation link below which describes the details on the configuration of DevOps agents as stated above: -
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/pipelines/agents/pools-queues?view=azure-devops&tabs=yaml%2Cbrowser
For additional security, you can also deploy your DevOps agents behind a web proxy as below: -
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/pipelines/agents/proxy?view=azure-devops&tabs=windows
I am trying to connect to one of my EC2 from my local machine using AWS Client VPN Endpoint.
I have Landing Zone Setup.
Transit Gateway and AWS Client VPN Endpoint is created in Shared Account and Transit Gateway is shared with Application Account using AWS RAM.
VPC is also created in Shared Account, I am able to ping/connect with the instance launched in Shared Account, but I am not able to ping/connect to the server launched in Application Account.
I also tried to ping from EC2 machine in Shared Account to EC2 machine in Application Account, this also did not worked, ideally I was expecting this should connect.
I have tried to put most of the details and configurations which I did in the following images. It will be great if someone could help me to understand the root cause.
Note: I have not configured DNS Servers while creating AWS Client VPN Endpoint.
If you follow the routes in your picture, you want to connect from your machine to an IP address in the range 1.8.2.2/26.
This already fails at the start since the client VPN has no routes configured for that range. Only for 1.8.2.6/26. So your packet doesn't get passed the client VPN. Add a route at the client VPN for 1.8.2.2/26 to go to subnet SA.
That should get you at least one step further :)
Simple question: Is there any way to connect to a GCP SQL Database under private IP through cloud sql proxy from an external application ? (local development environment)
I followed every step in the official tutorial to configure cloud sql proxy with all requirements, but all connections fail in a sort of timeout.
In order to connect to a Cloud SQL instance using only private IP through the Cloud SQL proxy will be to install the proxy within a resource (could be for example a Compute Engine instance) with access to the same VPC network as the Cloud SQL instance. Since your local development environment might not comply to that requirement the connection will fail.
You could move your local development environment to a compute engine instance located within the same VPC network as your Cloud SQL instance or temporarily enable Public IP on the instance and authorize only your IP through the authorized network options and use the Cloud SQL proxy to gain access to the instance.
The Cloud SQL proxy will work with a private IP address as long as it can reach the private IP address.
See the "Connecting from an external source" section on the Configuring Private IP page for a list of steps to set up a VPN that can provide access to your VPC.
I am taking the Google's GCP Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure course on Coursera. In the demonstration video of the Google Storage module, the presenter authorizes a compute engine instance to access a MySQL instance via it's external IP address.
Aren't these two resources part of the same VPC if they are part of the same project ? Why can't this authorization be done using the vm instance's internal IP address ?
Aren't these two resources part of the same VPC if they are part of
the same project ?
A Cloud SQL instance isn't created in one of your project's VPC network but in a Google-managed project, within its own network.
What happens when you enable private IP is that this network will be peered with the network of your choice in your project, where your Compute Engine instance resides:
You can then connect to the Cloud SQL instance from your VM via the internal IP address. The VM is considered trusted if your network configuration allows it to reach the Cloud SQL instance.
When you set an external IP address on the Cloud SQL instance, it means that the instance is accessible to the internet and the connection needs to be authorized. One way to do it is to whitelist the IP address of the caller as you mentioned. This works well if the caller's IP doesn't change. Another (easier) option is to connect via the cloud_sql_proxy, which handles authorization and encryption for you. You then don't need to whitelist the IP.
I have an azure web app that has 2 slots (one for production and one for staging). My web app calls an external web service that is protected via IP filtering. When I'm in production, I call the external web service for production and when I'm in staging I call the external web service for staging.
Because I switch from staging to production my 2 outbound IP adresses change regularly. So the external web service cannot protect independently staging and production.
Can the App Service Environnement can help me? Or another Azure service?
Thanks.
It seems, you're out of luck here. According to Microsoft Azure documentation:
Can I use a reserved IP for all Azure services?
Reserved IPs can only be used for VMs and cloud service instance roles exposed through a VIP.
So, no reserved IPs for Azure App Services, but only for VMs and Cloud Services.
But there might be some solutions possible:
replace IP filtering with Azure subdomain filtering, such as my-app-prod.azurewebsites.net, my-app-staging.azurewebsites.net (or buy a domain name and set its subdomain records to point to Azure App Service slot subdomains and use them instead of Azure's)
migrate your environment to Azure Cloud Services or VMs and then set up Azure Virtual Network with reserved IP addresses.