Security groups, the absolute basics

This tutorial is part of the Cloud Starter Series.

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Category: Beginner

Difficulty: 1 out of 5

Duration: 15 minutes

1. Overview 2. Inspect your Security Groups 3. Create a Security Group 4. Applying Security Groups 5. Next Steps

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Overview

Security Groups are Nectar’s way of specifying what network traffic can reach into -and out of- your Virtual Machine (VM). By default a VM brought up in the Nectar Research Cloud can reach out to the world via the network, but the world can’t reach in.

You need to specify any network traffic to be allowed to reach the VM via the Rules in a Security Group.

Security groups can be applied to VMs at launch and can be applied or removed at any other time in the VMs life.

Cloud Starter
This tutorial is part of the Nectar Cloud Starter curriculum. Only the bare essentials of security groups are discussed here. For more in depth review see the Nectar Security Group documentation.

What you’ll learn

Create a basic security group and a rule, for SSH
Apply a Security Group during Launch or on an already running instance

What you’ll need

An account on the Nectar Research Cloud

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2. Inspect your Security Groups