I am setting up an infrastructure using Fargate and RDS for my web application.
Here are the basic details of infrastructure.
Fargate and RDS are using same VPC and same Subnet
We have an Application Load Balancer infront of Fargate
Able to access container applications using LB url
Now the problem is, Fargate container application is not able to connect to RDS
Can somebody suggest how to configure security groups or other perimeters to allow containers to connect RDS.
If I change RDS SG configuration with RDS port and IP as 0.0.0.0/0
(Anywhere) container application is able to connect to RDS. But this
we will not be able to do in UAT / PROD
Find the security group ID of your Fargate service. It will look
like sg-ab3123b1252, but with different values after sg-.
In your RDS security group rules, instead of putting a CIDR in your source
field, put the Fargate service security group ID. Port 5432 (assuming you are using the standard postgresql port).
By adding the Fargate security group to your RDS security group rule, you're saying "allow TCP traffic on port 5432 from any resource that uses the Source security group specified".
Check the default VPC group in the docs. That page is required reading anyway, but the section linked has an example of what I'm describing specifically.
You may want to try configuring your VPC IP with RDS port into the RDS SG.
In addition to allowing the Security Group access we also had to grant IAM permissions to the role used by our ECS stuff.
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I have an EKS cluster where I have a Keycloak service that is trying to connect to RDS within the same VPC.
I have also added a inbound rule to the RDS Security Group which allow postgresql from source eksctl-prod-cluster-ClusterSharedNodeSecurityGroup-XXXXXXXXX
When the application tries to connect to RDS i get the following message:
timeout reached before the port went into state "inuse"
I ended up replacing the inbound rule on the RDS Security Group from the eksctl-prod-cluster-ClusterSharedNodeSecurityGroup-XXXXXXXXX with an inbound rule allowing access from the EKS VPC CIDR address instead.
I need to get the IP numbers that are connecting to the EC2 instance then add them to AWS security group as a security group rule. So only those machines will have the permission to connect to instance. I don't need the port number that they're connecting to instance.
I installed iptraf-ng but app is very slow on the instance. Any other suggestions to capture the connecting IP's to instance so I can add them faster to security group rule?
You can use VPC Flow logs to monitor the traffic to the VPC (which will include the traffic that is going to the EC2 instance).
I have AWS EKS nodes access RDS where I have have whitelisted EKS node's public IPs in RDS's security group. But this is not viable solution because EKS Nodes can get replaced and its public IP can changes with it.
How can I make this EKS node's connecting to RDS more stable ?
Last year we have introduced a new feature to assign Security Groups to Kubernetes pods directly to overcome having to assign them at the node level (to avoid ephemerality problems you call out and to create a more secure environment where only the pod that needs to talk to RDS can do so Vs the ENTIRE node). You can follow this tutorial to configure this feature or refer to the official documentation.
If your eks cluster is in the same vpc as the Rds instance, then you can just whitelist your vpc's private ip-address (cidr) range in RDS security group. If they are in different vpc's, then connect both vpc with vpc-peering and whitelist's eks vpc's IP range in rds security group. Dont use public ip's as they will go through outside AWS network. Instead, always use private connections wherever possible as they are faster, reliable and more secure. If you don't want to whitelist complete cidr Then you can also create a NAT gateway for your eks cluster and make routes for outside traffic going outside the EKS cluster go through that NAT gateway and then you can whitelist NAT's IP in rds security group
We are currently migrating from AWS ECS to Azure Kubernetes Service. Our first step is to first migrate the application code and just leave the database in AWS RDS, for now. Our RDS instance is protected by a security group which only allows connection from a set of IP addresses.
When connecting to the RDS instance, what IP address does the database see? How can I configure RDS to allow connection from a kubernetes pod?
If you have an Azure Load Balancer (so any kubernetes service with type LoadBalancer) attached to worker nodes - they will use the first IP attached to the Load Balancer. If not - they will use public IP attached to the VM they run on. If the VM doesnt have a public IP (default for AKS), they will use ethereal IP that might change anytime and you have no control over that.
So just create a service with the type of LoadBalancer in AKS, find its external IP address and whitelist that.
I am using Amazon Web Service's security group in RDS and want to remove 0.0.0.0/0 -
I have added all the IPs I want to be able to access my amazon RDS into the RDS security group all in the form of x.x.x.x/32, (including the 2 EC2 instances IP that hosts my webpage), and now I want to remove the 0.0.0.0/0 IP in RDS security group - default group. However, when I remove it it blocks all access to my website (which does communicate with it).
But my question is, shouldn't it still allow the communications between my EC2 and RDS if I have added my EC2 instance public IPs into RDS's security group?
Please help! I cant remove 0.0.0.0/0 without it blocking out all my access although I have all the IPs added correctly!
If you don't have a VPC, you need to add the Amazon EC2 security group for the EC2 instance to the DB security group for the DB instance. I don't think it will work with public IPs since these are not used internally. You can find more info and detailed instructions here.