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Status Needs more information
Created by Guest
Created on Feb 17, 2025

Network Security Group

It would be highly beneficial to have the capability to define security groups not only in relation to a virtual machine but also to an entire network. This would allow all virtual machines connected to a specific network to inherit the corresponding security group. Such functionality would be particularly useful for the project network, as it would enable us to swiftly isolate it from other networks.

Idea priority High
  • Guest
    Apr 29, 2025

    Many times virtual machine belonging to the same network (private or external) may needs to use the same security groups. For example the reachability to some company infrastructure services (like NTP, DNS, etc) needs to be reachable using the same security group. So the needs from this Idea is to permit the attachemnt of a security group not only to a VM instance but also to a network. So all the VM joinming the network can have automatically attached the related security groups. This feature is always availabel on ICP like azure and AWS.