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VPC Firewall Rules

In CloudHub’s default configuration, all applications are hosted in a multi-tenant cloud balanced by a publicly accessible load balancer.
When you create an Anypoint Virtual Private Cloud (Anypoint VPC), you can add your own firewall rules to allow specific IP ranges and ports to reach your workers. See Configure Firewall Rules.

Keep in mind that the firewall rules that you configure in your Anypoint VPC check inbound connections only to your workers, and not to the Anypoint VPC, your dedicated load balancer, or the publicly accessible load balancer.

Default Firewall Rules

By default, all traffic to your VPC is blocked unless it’s explicitly allowed in a firewall rule. When you create an Anypoint VPC, four firewall rules are created by default:

  • Two rules to allow inbound connections from within your local Anypoint VPC through ports 8091 and 8092:

    {
  "CIDR Block": "10.111.0.0/24", // (Local VPC)
  "Protocol": "TCP",
  "From port": 8092,
},

{
  "CIDR Block": "10.111.0.0/24", // (Local VPC)
  "Protocol": "TCP",
  "From port": 8091,
},

    These firewall rules allow traffic from within the Anypoint VPC to reach your workers through ports 8091 and 8092. These are the only ports used by your CloudHub-dedicated load balancer to proxy all external communications to your workers.

  • Two rules to allow inbound connections from anywhere through ports 8081 and 8082:

    {
  "CIDR Block": "0.0.0.0/0", // (Anywhere)
  "Protocol": "TCP",
  "From port": 8082,
},

{
  "CIDR Block": "0.0.0.0/0", // (Anywhere)
  "Protocol": "TCP",
  "From port": 8081,
}

    These rules allow traffic from any host to reach your workers through ports 8081 and 8082. These ports are used by CloudHub’s shared load balancer to proxy external requests to your workers. You can remove these rules if you don’t want your internal workers to be reached by the publicly accessible load balancer.

Firewall Rule Limits

You can configure approximately 35 firewall rules per VPC, depending on the number of rules CloudHub requires, which might change.

If you create more than the number of available firewall rules, the VPC returns an error, indicating that you have reached the maximum number of rules.

Configure Firewall Rules

You can configure firewall rules in the Anypoint Runtime Manager UI at the time you create an Anypoint VPC, or you can add them to an existing Anypoint VPC. You can also modify the firewall rules for an Anypoint VPC at any time.

Before you implement firewall rules, or make changes to existing rules, you should fully understand all security implications. Make sure you follow the established best practices of your organization before making any changes to firewall rules. In general, the rules you use to define access to your Anypoint VPC should be as specific as is practical.

Firewall rules are inbound and use the following parameters:

  • Type: Protocol type, for example, TCP

  • Source: Source IP address

  • Port Range: The only two ports exposed externally are 8081 (http.port) and 8082 (https.port). You can use this parameter to open additional ports inside the VPC.

You cannot configure firewall rules for ports below 1024.

Add or Edit Firewall Rules

  1. Sign into Anypoint Platform as a user with the Organization Administrators role.

  2. In Management Center, click Runtime Manager.

  3. If you already have an Anypoint VPC:

    1. In the left menu, click VPCs and click the row for the Anypoint VPC whose firewall rules you want to configure.
      The right panel displays information about the Anypoint VPC instance.

    2. Click Manage VPC, then click the Firewall Rules tab.

  4. If you are creating firewall rules when you create your Anypoint VPC:

    1. Click Firewall Rules > to expand the fields.

      firewall rules page

  5. To edit a rule, select the new values from the Type and Source drop-down lists, and enter the value for the Port Range.

  6. To add additional rules:

    1. Click Add New Rule.

    2. Select the following values for the type and source in the corresponding columns:

      • Type: Select the transport protocol type for the rule.

      • Source: Select the source IP address, or select Custom to define your own source.

    3. Enter a value for Port Range and click Add to list.

  7. To delete a firewall rule, hover over the firewall rule row to delete, then click the trashcan icon in the far-right column.

No confirmation dialog appears when you delete a firewall rule, so make sure you really want to delete it.

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