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Thanks for brining this up.

On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 2:52 PM, Kevin Benton <kevin at benton.pub> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I know this has come up in the past, but some folks in the infra channel
> brought up the topic of changing the default security groups to allow all
> traffic.
>
> They had a few reasons for this that I will try to summarize here:
> * Ports 'just work' out of the box so there is no troubleshooting to
> eventually find out that ingress is blocked by default.
> * Instances without ingress are useless so a bunch of API calls are
> required to make them useful.
> * Some cloud providers allow all traffic by default (e.g. Digital Ocean,
> RAX).
> * It violates the end-to-end principle of the Internet to have a
> middle-box meddling with traffic (the compute node in this case).
> * Neutron cannot be trusted to do what it says it's doing with the
> security groups API so users want to orchestrate firewalls directly on
> their instances.
>
>
> So this ultimately brings up two big questions. First, can we agree on a
> set of defaults that is different than the one we have now; and, if so, how
> could we possibly manage upgrades where this will completely change the
> default filtering for users using the API?
>
> Second, would it be acceptable to make this operator configurable? This
> would mean users could receive different default filtering as they moved
> between clouds.
>

+1, there is definitely value in having an option to change defaults.


> Cheers,
> Kevin Benton
>
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