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From: "Michael Hampton" <error(a)ioerror.us>
To: cloud(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2013 11:45:51 PM
Subject: Re: Disabling firewalld on AWS?
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On 09/10/2013 11:36 PM, Sam Kottler wrote:
> Given the deny-by-default nature of security groups I think it makes sense
> to disable firewalld in the AMI's. I haven't seen any other AMI's that
> have a firewall enabled by default and we probably shouldn't break that
> pattern IMO.
>
> Thoughts?
>
This is easily one of my least-favorite "features" of certain Linux
distributions.
Debian/Ubuntu images don't have a firewall enabled by default in their cloud
images because they don't have a firewall enabled at all in a default
installation. At least the last time I looked at them; maybe they've gotten
smarter in the last couple of years.
I'm not really sure I see a benefit here. There may not even be a second
firewall in front of the virtual machine; a user might turn it off because
it's getting in the way, or a cloud provider might not provide this feature
at all. I know of at least one public cloud provider which has an external
firewall feature similar to AWS security groups, but it's off by default. In
this case I see plenty of downside.
If people disable their firewall then that's their prerogative, but it's confusing
and non-standard to have a firewall running on the instance and one running via the
security group(s) that the host is in.
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