Security groups, the absolute basics

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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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Security groups and their rules are essential for securing virtual machines in the Nectar research cloud. In this tutorial you have learnt how to inspect, create and adjust a security group and rules. Securing virtual machines is important and deserves its own tutorial and documentation.

If you haven’t already done so, you should create a key pair for use in Nectar and then learn to Launch Virtual Machines from the Nectar Dashboard

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