[Openstack] egress traffic

Georgios Dimitrakakis giorgis at acmac.uoc.gr
Mon Jan 5 12:57:23 UTC 2015


 Hi George!

 Do I have to configure egress traffic through CLI and how? My 
 understanding is that from Dashboard everything is for ingress traffic 
 only. Do I miss something?

 I am on Icehouse release using nova (legacy) networking.

 Best,


 G.



> Hi Georgios,
>
> The security groups allow for ingress and egress filtering, so you
> should be good to go.
>
> George
> On 5 Jan 2015 07:26, "Georgios Dimitrakakis"  wrote:
>
>> First of all I d like to wish to each and everyone of you happy new
>> year!
>>
>> Then I d like to know if there is a way to control the outbound
>> (egress) traffic directly from within Openstack
>> for a group of VMs rather than modifying the iptables for each one
>> of them.
>>
>> It would be great if there is a way to group the VMs on a
>> "security" group (like the way its done for the inbound traffic on
>> security groups).
>>
>> If not is there any other way to achieve this? I am thinking of
>> setting up a pfSense firewall and pass all traffic from there. Would
>> that work? Any other ideas/suggestions??
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> George
>>
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