I'm trying to limit ssh access to a google cloud vm instance by using the firewall in "VPC Network". I only want to be able to access the vm when I'm on my university's wifi. I've added the DNS server IP addresses (listed here: https://accc.uic.edu/service/uic-net) but once I add them to the firewall I lose access even when I'm on them.
snapshot of firewall impl
*I've even tried using my specific machine IP address with no luck (even though I want the whole network to have access, not just my machine)
Adding the DNS server IP address to a Google VPC firewall rule will not enable access from your network. You need to know your network's public IP CIDR block and use that for the firewall.
From the document link that you provided, your network is using two netblocks: 131.193.0.0/16 and 128.248.0.0/16. Verify that the network you are connecting within uses one of these CIDR blocks. Go to any website that supports "What is my IP" such as https://www.whatismyip.com/
Then create a firewall rule specifying:
Direction of traffic: Ingress
Action on match:
Allow Source filter: IP ranges
Source IP ranges: 131.193.0.0/16, 128.248.0.0/16
Protocols and ports: Allow all
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My Linux based EC2 instances have both public and private IPs. I am hosting two servers on it:
S3 server, which will be accessible over both internet/private network and
NFS server, which should be accessed only via private IPs/internal network.
I want to open NFS port in the Security Group but only allow the access over the EC2 instances's private IP. I don't think this can be achieved by using only security groups as when the request reaches EC2 node, the Internet Gateway has already replaced the public IP with the private IP of the EC2 instance and the instance is not even aware that there is an extra public IP associated with it.
Instead what can be done is to choose the sources and selectively allow NFS access only to the VPCs and on-premises network (in case there is a VPN connectivity) but that would also mean that every time a new VPC is created OR a new VPN endpoint is established, someone has to modify the Security Group to accommodate new IP addresses.
What I ideally need is a way to apply port and IP based rules on the Internet Gateway which is currently not available/exported. Looking for alternatives.
The simplest method would be to add an Inbound rule to the Security Group where the Source is the CIDR range of the VPC.
For example, if your VPC is 172.31.0.0/16, then use this as the Source in the security group. It would permit any inbound connection from that IP address range.
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 have few virtual machines on the cloud of Google.
My virtual machine running an application that connect to database server. The database server is protected with two types of authentications:
Password
IP addresses white-list
My problem is with - IP address. I need to define the allowed IPs manually on my database, in order to allow them to connect. Since I not controlling the external IP address (the changed dynamically), I looking to other solution.
Found this script to get the whole range of Google IPs. But as the script writer said - this range of IP is changing in high frequency. Which is big problem - I can't trust this kind of solution.
It sound like I facing common problem - What to do?
You could in a more simple way use private ip in your CloudSQL.
This way your instances will be using their internal ip and not the external IP and as you should have defined a VPC you have full control over the range you should allow.
In addition, please note you get the following benefits using private IP to connect to Cloud SQL:
Lower network latency: Private IP provides lower latency than public IP.
Improved network security: Private services access traffic is never exposed to the public Internet.
Plus, you can follow these steps to configure Private IP connectivity in your CloudSQL instances. Along with VPC firewall rules and network tags in order to allow/deny specific traffic in/out your GCP project and VM instances.
We want to be able to connect to my on-premise database from our google cloud kubernetes.
We are currently attempting to do so by using "Create a VPN connection" from within the google console.
In the field IP address, I am forced to create (or pick from existing) "External IP Addresses".
I am able to link a single VM-instance to this External IP Address. But I want my VPN connection/tunnel to be between my on-premises network and EVERYTHING within my Google cloud network.
This IP should not just work as External IP Addr. for a single instance. I need to make it a gateway to the network as a whole. What am I missing?
Thanks in advance.
Another way to frame the question:
How do I find the IP Address of the gateway to my Google cloud network (VPC) and how do I supply that IP to the VPN Connection creation ?
The Cloud VPN connects your on-premises to the VPC, that means every Instance, Cluster or other products that use Google Cloud Engine (GCE).
As mentioned in a previous answer from avinoam-meir the VPN has at least two components: Gateway and Tunnel but I will add a third one: Type of routing.
a) Gateway: This is where you can add an existing or reserve any static IP address (from the Google Pool of External IP Addresses).
b) Tunnel: Where the encapsulated and encrypted traffic will flow to reach the Local IP ranges.
c) Type of routing: Cloud VPN has three possibilities:
Tunnel using Dynamic Routing
Route Based VPN
Policy based VPN
Depending on the type you choose, the routing happens in a different way but in general terms, it will propagate your subnetwork(s) to your on-premises network and receive the routes from it.
Important: Remember to open your firewall on your GCP VPC to receive traffic from your on-premises IP Ranges as the default and implied rule for Ingress will block it.
The implied allow egress rule: An egress rule whose action is allow, destination is 0.0.0.0/0, and priority is the lowest possible (65535) lets any instance send traffic to any destination.
The implied deny ingress rule: An ingress rule whose action is deny, source is 0.0.0.0/0, and priority is the lowest possible (65535) protects all instances by blocking incoming traffic to them.
The answer was simpler than I thought.
My question was:
How do I find the IP Address of the gateway to my Google cloud network
(VPC) and how do I supply that IP to the VPN Connection creation ?
The answer is simply to fill out the "Create a VPN connection" page. It automatically sets up whatever IP you get/choose in the "IP Address" field as the gateway. I did NOT need to configure this IP address to work as a gateway. Simply getting it assigned in this step is enough. Google does the rest behind the scenes.
You need to distinguish between gateway IP address and local IP range of the VPN tunnel
The gateway IP address is the IP of the gateway where all the packets from your on-premises arrive encapsulated and encrypted.
The local IP range of the VPN tunnel is the range of IPs that can be reached through the VPN tunnel. By default this is all the
private IP addresses of your GCP network
Create a NAT gateway [1] with Kubernetes Engine and Compute Engine Network Routes to route outbound traffic from an existing GKE cluster through the NAT Gateway instance.
Use that NAT gateway IP address to create a VPN connection to remote peer gateway.
[1] https://cloud.google.com/solutions/using-a-nat-gateway-with-kubernetes-engine
I have set up a EC2 micro instance and installed Consul, but I can't seem to connect via Curl. I can connect to the instance from itself with curl http://localhost:8500/v1/agent/self for a test. However when I try to use the AWS public ipv4 from my local machine like so http://34.230.X.X:8500/v1/agent/self I get a connection refused. On the security group I have configured inbound port 8500 open to everyone. Everything seems to be in place and correctly configured is there something I'm missing?
The AWS VPC documentation has some steps for allowing EC2 instances to be reachable from the internet:
Attach an Internet gateway to your VPC.
Ensure that your subnet's route table points to the Internet gateway.
Ensure that instances in your subnet have a globally unique IP address (public IPv4 address, Elastic IP address, or IPv6 address).
Ensure that your network access control and security group rules allow the relevant traffic to flow to and from your instance.
It sounds like you have the public IPv4 address and have verified that the security groups are good; now just make sure you don't have any network ACLs set (or set appropriately if you have them), the internet gateway, and the route table.
It sounds like you need to set consul's client address to that of the public facing IP. You can do this with the -client option.
consul agent -server -bootstrap -bind="<Your private IP>" -client="<Your public IP>" -data-dir="<Your data dir>"
Disclaimer: This would allow anyone on the internet access to this consul agent's API. So take appropriate actions to secure this thing.