November 2017
Intermediate to advanced
494 pages
14h 29m
English
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Firewall configuration file
As of Proxmox 5, a fully functional firewall is integrated with a Proxmox cluster. It is very powerful and comes with a granular customization down to a single virtual machine. Firewall rules can be created separately for a cluster, node, and virtual machine. The following table shows the firewall rules' file location:
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Cluster-wide firewall rules |
/etc/pve/firewall/cluster.fw |
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Node firewall rules |
/etc/pve/nodes/<node_id>/host.fw |
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VM/CT firewall rules |
/etc/pve/firewall/cluster.fw |
All the firewall rules can be managed through the Proxmox GUI firewall menu without editing using the command line. We will take a look at the firewall in detail later in this book in Chapter 9, The Proxmox VE Firewall ...