Manage firewall policies and load balancer policies for virtual datacenters, create firewall rules, and attach firewall policies to VMs, and attach load balancers to VMs on the multicloud platform.
Manage firewalls
In GCP, the platform can create firewall rules in virtual datacenters or in global networks, to later attach to VMs.
Privileges: Manage firewall, Manage global networks
To create a new firewall, do these steps:
Go to Virtual datacenters → Network → Firewalls OR
Go to myCloud → Global → select the GCP provider → Network → FirewallsClick the Add button
Enter the firewall details and select the direction
For the Name, see the Google cloud entity naming conventions. See Google Cloud Platform integration
For the Direction, select
INGRESSfor incoming traffic orEGRESSfor outgoing trafficFor Sources or Targets, enter a list of comma separated values in CIDR format
For Priority, the default is 1000 and lower numbers have higher priority
Go to Inbound or Outbound and add firewall rules
Optionally, select from predefined Common protocols OR
Enter Protocols and enter a list of Ports, separated by commas, and/or a port range, separated with a dash (e.g. 80,8000-8009)
After you finish adding rules, click Save
The platform will create your firewall in the provider.