Select Firewall from Dashboard
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Open your Cloud dashboard. From dashboard, click on Firewall to create your Firewall.
Create a Firewall
- Choose Firewall as the Type.
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Choose the data center where the firewall will be applied.
Configure Inbound Rules
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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.
Configure Outbound Rules
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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.
Configure Firewall Settings
- Enter a name for the firewall.
- Select the billing account that this firewall belongs to.
The firewall service is free, but the resources like VMs attached to it will incur additional charges.
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Click Create to finish creating the firewall. It will now be available to assign to your virtual machine.
Assign Firewall to VM
- After creating the firewall with the inbound and outbound rules, go to your created VM dashboard.
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Navigate to the Firewall section.
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Click on Attach Firewall.
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Select the firewall you created and click on Add.
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Once added, the firewall rules will be applied to the VM, ensuring that only allowed traffic can access it.
