UEC: Security
Eucalyptus provides ingress filtering for the instances based on the concept of security groups. A Security Group is a named set of rules that Eucalyptus applies to the incoming packets for the instances in Managed and Managed-NOVLAN modes. You can specify a security group while launching an instance. Each security group can have multiple rules associated with it. Each rule specifies the source IP/network, protocol type, destination ports etc. Any packet matching these parameters specified in a rule is allowed in. Rest of the packets are blocked.
A security group that does not have any rules associated with it causes blocking of all incoming traffic.
The mechanism only provides ingress filtering and does not provide any egress filtering. As a result all outbound traffic is allowed. If you need to implement egress filtering, you will need to implement that inside the instance using a firewall.
Tools like Hybridfox let you manage security groups and also let you specify a security group while launching an instance.
Here are a few euca commands to manage security groups:
Create a security group named “webservers” :
uecadmin@client1:~$ euca-add-group -d "Web Servers" webservers
Add a rule to the security group “webservers” allowing icmp and tcp traffic from a.b.c.d :
uecadmin@client1:~$ euca-authorize -P tcp -s a.b.c.d webservers uecadmin@client1:~$ euca-authorize -P icmp -s a.b.c.d webservers
The added rules can be viewed with euca-describe-groups command
$ euca-describe-groups GROUP admin default default group GROUP admin webservers Web Servers PERMISSION admin webservers ALLOWS icmp -1 -1 FROMCIDR 0.0.0.0/0 PERMISSION admin webservers ALLOWS tcp 22 22 FROMCIDR 0.0.0.0/0
Launch an instance associated with the security group “webservers” :
uecadmin@client1:~$ euca-run-instances emi-XXXXXXXX -k mykey -g webservers
List the details of the existing security groups :
euca-describe-groups
Remove the rule for icmp traffic from the source ip a.b.c.d from the security group “webservers” :
uecadmin@client1:~$ euca-revoke -P icmp -s a.b.c.d webservers
Delete the security group “webservers” :
euca-delete-group webservers
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