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Audit security groups
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Description

Currently, intra-project traffic (i. e., from tools-login to tools-redis or from tools-webproxy to tools-webgrid-01) is not subject to the firewall rules of security groups. Due to that, security groups are not up to date, for example, the redis security group doesn't explicitely allow traffic on port 6379.

The move to eqiad could change the default behaviour.

Therefore, prior to the move, we need to make sure that:

a) all hosts have proper security groups assigned, and
b) security groups really allow traffic they're supposed to allow.


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Severity: normal

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bz60144

Event Timeline

bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Needs Triage.Nov 22 2014, 3:00 AM
bzimport added a project: Toolforge.
bzimport set Reference to bz60144.

Anything intended "prior to the move" is not all that relevant today. :-)

Eh, yes, irrespective of the DC location, we should still make sure that:

a) all hosts have proper security groups assigned, and
b) security groups really allow traffic they're supposed to allow.

agree, just because we didn't already do it doesn't mean it's invalid :)

With no comment on the relevance of an audit in general, the security groups include the allow from source rule which lets traffic through when it comes from the right source. That applies before ingress rules set by destination. So no change to the networking stack can break intra-project traffic.