In this recipe, you will learn how to allow web traffic. We will create rules to allow the traffic destined only to a web server running in a VM. Web traffic is associated with TCP ports 80 for HTTP and 443 for HTTPS.
For this recipe, you will need the following information:
The name of the Network
The name for the security group
For this recipe, we will use the Chapter7_Network1 Network and the Chapter7_SecurityGroup1 security group that we created in the previous recipe.
The following steps will show you how to open specific application-related protocol ports in a security group:
Log in to Horizon with the appropriate credentials.
Navigate to Project | Compute | Access & Security.
Click on Manage Rules for the
Chapter7_SecurityGroup1security group to go to the security group management page:
Click on +Add Rule to add a new rule. We will select the rule type HTTP in the Rule menu and CIDR as
0.0.0.0/0to allow...