Tenbyte Firewall

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Select Firewall from Dashboard

• Open your Cloud dashboard. From dashboard, click on Firewall to create your Firewall.
  

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Create a Firewall

• Choose Firewall as the Type.
• Choose the data center where the firewall will be applied.
  

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Configure Inbound Rules

• Inbound rules control traffic entering your virtual machine. Under Inbound rules, you can specify the traffic allowed to enter your virtual machine.
  
  • Type: Select the type of traffic.
  • Protocol: Choose the protocol.
  • Port Range: Specify the port range.
  • Sources: Enter the IP prefixes allowed to access the VM or select Any to allow all incoming traffic.
• Use inbound rules to allow only the ports required by your application and block all others.

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Configure Outbound Rules

• Outbound rules control traffic leaving your virtual machine. Under Outbound rules, specify which traffic can leave your virtual machine.
  
  • Type: Select the type of traffic.
  • Protocol: Choose the protocol.
  • Port Range: Specify the port range.
  • Destinations: Select All IP to allow traffic to any destination or specify a target IP range if you want to restrict the destinations.

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Configure Firewall Settings

• Enter a name for the firewall.
• Select the billing account that this firewall belongs to.

• Click Create to finish creating the firewall. It will now be available to assign to your virtual machine.
  

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Assign Firewall to VM

• After creating the firewall with the inbound and outbound rules, go to your created VM dashboard.
• Navigate to the Firewall section.
  
• Click on Attach Firewall.
  
• Select the firewall you created and click on Add.
  
• Once added, the firewall rules will be applied to the VM, ensuring that only allowed traffic can access it.