Chapter 2. Configuring your firewall If you use a firewall, you must configure it so that OpenShift Container Platform can access the sites that it requires to function. You must always grant access to some sites, and you grant access to more if you use Red Hat Insights, the Telemetry service, a cloud to host your cluster, and certain build strategies. 2.1. Configuring your firewall for OpenShift Container Platform Before you install OpenShift Container Platform, you must configure your firewall to grant access to the sites that OpenShift Container Platform requires. There are no special configuration considerations for services running on only controller nodes compared to worker nodes. Note If your environment has a dedicated load balancer in front of your OpenShift Container Platform cluster, review the allowlists between your firewall and load balancer to prevent unwanted network restrictions to your cluster. Procedure Allowlist the following registry URLs: URL Port Function registry.redhat.io 443 Provides core container images access.redhat.com 443 Hosts a signature store that a container client requires for verifying images pulled from registry.access.redhat.com . In a firewall environment, ensure that this resource is on the allowlist. registry.access.redhat.com 443 Hosts all the container images that are stored on the Red Hat Ecosystem Catalog, including core container images. quay.io 443 Provides core container images cdn.quay.io 443 Provides core container images cdn01.quay.io 443 Provides core container images cdn02.quay.io 443 Provides core container images cdn03.quay.io 443 Provides core container images cdn04.quay.io 443 Provides core container images cdn05.quay.io 443 Provides core container images cdn06.quay.io 443 Provides core container images sso.redhat.com 443 The https://console.redhat.com site uses authentication from sso.redhat.com You can use the wildcards *.quay.io and *.openshiftapps.com instead of cdn.quay.io and cdn0[1-6].quay.io in your allowlist. You can use the wildcard *.access.redhat.com to simplify the configuration and ensure that all subdomains, including registry.access.redhat.com , are allowed. When you add a site, such as quay.io , to your allowlist, do not add a wildcard entry, such as *.quay.io , to your denylist. In most cases, image registries use a content delivery network (CDN) to serve images. If a firewall blocks access, image downloads are denied when the initial download request redirects to a hostname such as cdn01.quay.io . Allowlist any site that provides resources for a language or framework that your builds require. If you do not disable Telemetry, you must grant access to the following URLs to access Red Hat Insights: URL Port Function cert-api.access.redhat.com 443 Required for Telemetry api.access.redhat.com 443 Required for Telemetry infogw.api.openshift.com 443 Required for Telemetry console.redhat.com 443 Required for Telemetry and for insights-operator If you use Alibaba Cloud, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform (GCP) to host your cluster, you must grant access to the URLs that provide the cloud provider API and DNS for that cloud: Cloud URL Port Function Alibaba *.aliyuncs.com 443 Required to access Alibaba Cloud services and resources. Review the Alibaba endpoints_config.go file to determine the exact endpoints to allow for the regions that you use. AWS aws.amazon.com 443 Used to install and manage clusters in an AWS environment. *.amazonaws.com Alternatively, if you choose to not use a wildcard for AWS APIs, you must allowlist the following URLs: 443 Required to access AWS services and resources. Review the AWS Service Endpoints in the AWS documentation to determine the exact endpoints to allow for the regions that you use. ec2.amazonaws.com 443 Used to install and manage clusters in an AWS environment. events.amazonaws.com 443 Used to install and manage clusters in an AWS environment. iam.amazonaws.com 443 Used to install and manage clusters in an AWS environment. route53.amazonaws.com 443 Used to install and manage clusters in an AWS environment. *.s3.amazonaws.com 443 Used to install and manage clusters in an AWS environment. *.s3.<aws_region>.amazonaws.com 443 Used to install and manage clusters in an AWS environment. *.s3.dualstack.<aws_region>.amazonaws.com 443 Used to install and manage clusters in an AWS environment. sts.amazonaws.com 443 Used to install and manage clusters in an AWS environment. sts.<aws_region>.amazonaws.com 443 Used to install and manage clusters in an AWS environment. tagging.us-east-1.amazonaws.com 443 Used to install and manage clusters in an AWS environment. This endpoint is always us-east-1 , regardless of the region the cluster is deployed in. ec2.<aws_region>.amazonaws.com 443 Used to install and manage clusters in an AWS environment. elasticloadbalancing.<aws_region>.amazonaws.com 443 Used to install and manage clusters in an AWS environment. servicequotas.<aws_region>.amazonaws.com 443 Required. Used to confirm quotas for deploying the service. tagging.<aws_region>.amazonaws.com 443 Allows the assignment of metadata about AWS resources in the form of tags. GCP *.googleapis.com 443 Required to access GCP services and resources. Review Cloud Endpoints in the GCP documentation to determine the endpoints to allow for your APIs. accounts.google.com 443 Required to access your GCP account. Azure management.azure.com 443 Required to access Azure services and resources. Review the Azure REST API reference in the Azure documentation to determine the endpoints to allow for your APIs. *.blob.core.windows.net 443 Required to download Ignition files. login.microsoftonline.com 443 Required to access Azure services and resources. Review the Azure REST API reference in the Azure documentation to determine the endpoints to allow for your APIs. Allowlist the following URLs: URL Port Function *.apps.<cluster_name>.<base_domain> 443 Required to access the default cluster routes unless you set an ingress wildcard during installation. api.openshift.com 443 Required both for your cluster token and to check if updates are available for the cluster. console.redhat.com 443 Required for your cluster token. mirror.openshift.com 443 Required to access mirrored installation content and images. This site is also a source of release image signatures, although the Cluster Version Operator needs only a single functioning source. quayio-production-s3.s3.amazonaws.com 443 Required to access Quay image content in AWS. rhcos.mirror.openshift.com 443 Required to download Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS (RHCOS) images. sso.redhat.com 443 The https://console.redhat.com site uses authentication from sso.redhat.com storage.googleapis.com/openshift-release 443 A source of release image signatures, although the Cluster Version Operator needs only a single functioning source. Operators require route access to perform health checks. Specifically, the authentication and web console Operators connect to two routes to verify that the routes work. If you are the cluster administrator and do not want to allow *.apps.<cluster_name>.<base_domain> , then allow these routes: oauth-openshift.apps.<cluster_name>.<base_domain> console-openshift-console.apps.<cluster_name>.<base_domain> , or the hostname that is specified in the spec.route.hostname field of the consoles.operator/cluster object if the field is not empty. Allowlist the following URLs for optional third-party content: URL Port Function registry.connect.redhat.com 443 Required for all third-party images and certified operators. rhc4tp-prod-z8cxf-image-registry-us-east-1-evenkyleffocxqvofrk.s3.dualstack.us-east-1.amazonaws.com 443 Provides access to container images hosted on registry.connect.redhat.com oso-rhc4tp-docker-registry.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com 443 Required for Sonatype Nexus, F5 Big IP operators. If you use a default Red Hat Network Time Protocol (NTP) server allow the following URLs: 1.rhel.pool.ntp.org 2.rhel.pool.ntp.org 3.rhel.pool.ntp.org Note If you do not use a default Red Hat NTP server, verify the NTP server for your platform and allow it in your firewall.

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