Proxy and firewall rules

Allowlisting addresses for your proxy

If your organization requires outbound traffic to pass through a proxy server, allowlist the following addresses in your proxy server:

  • gcr.io
  • googleapis.com
  • www.googleapis.com
  • storage.googleapis.com
  • gkeconnect.googleapis.com
  • cloudresourcemanager.googleapis.com
  • container.googleapis.com
  • serviceusage.googleapis.com
  • gkehub.googleapis.com
  • logging.googleapis.com
  • monitoring.googleapis.com
  • oauth2.googleapis.com
  • console.cloud.google.com
  • accounts.google.com
  • iam.googleapis.com
  • cloud.google.com
  • checkpoint-api.hashicorp.com
  • releases.hashicorp.com

Also, if your vCenter Server has an external IP address, allowlist its address in your proxy server.

Firewall rules

Set up your firewall rules to allow the following traffic:

From

To

Port

Protocol

Description

Admin cluster control plane node

vCenter Server API

443

TCP/https

Cluster resizing.

User cluster control plane node

vCenter Server API

443

TCP/https

Cluster resizing.

Cloud Logging Collector, which runs on an admin cluster add-on node

oauth2.googleapis.com
logging.googleapis.com
stackdriver.googleapis.com
servicecontrol.googleapis.com

443

TCP/https

Cloud Monitoring Collector, which runs on an admin cluster add-on node

oauth2.googleapis.com
Monitoring.googleapis.com
stackdriver.googleapis.com
servicecontrol.googleapis.com

443

TCP/https

Admin cluster control plane node

F5 BIG-IP API

443

TCP/https

User cluster control plane node

F5 BIG-IP API

443

TCP/https

Admin cluster control plane node

On-prem local Docker registry

Depends on your registry

TCP/https

Required if GKE on-prem is configured to use a local private Docker registry instead of gcr.io.

User cluster control plane node

On-prem local Docker registry

Depends on your registry

TCP/https

Required if GKE on-prem is configured to use a local private Docker registry instead of gcr.io.

Admin cluster control plane node

gcr.io
quay.io
*.googleusercontent.com
*.googleapis.com
*.docker.io
*.k8s.io

443

TCP/https

Download images from public Docker registries.

Not required if using a private Docker registry.

User cluster control plane node

gcr.io
quay.io
*.googleusercontent.com
*.googleapis.com
*.docker.io
*.k8s.io
443

TCP/https

Download images from public Docker registries.

Not required if using a private Docker registry.

Admin cluster worker nodes

Admin cluster worker nodes

All

179 - bgp

443 - https

5473 - Calico/Typha

9443 - Envoy metrics

10250 - kubelet node port

All worker nodes must be layer-2 adjacent and without any firewall.

Admin cluster worker nodes

User cluster nodes

22

ssh

API server to kubelet communication over an SSH tunnel.

User cluster worker nodes

Admin workstation Docker registry

User cluster worker nodes

gcr.io
quay.io
*.googleusercontent.com
*.googleapis.com
*.docker.io
*.k8s.io

443

TCP/https

Download images from public Docker registries.

Not required if using a private Docker registry.

User cluster worker nodes

F5 BIG-IP API

443

TCP/https

User cluster worker nodes

VIP of the pushprox server, which runs in the Admin cluster.

8443

TCP/https

Prometheus traffic.

User cluster worker nodes

User cluster worker nodes

all

22 - ssh

179 - bgp

443 - https

5473 - calico-typha

9443 - envoy metrics

10250 - kubelet node port"

All worker nodes must be layer-2 adjacent and without any firewall.

Admin cluster pod CIDR

Admin cluster pod CIDR

all

any

Inter-pod traffic does L2 forwarding directly with pod CIDR. No overlay.

Admin cluster nodes

Admin cluster pod CIDR

all

any

External traffic get SNATted on the first node and sent to pod IP.

Admin cluster pod CIDR

Admin cluster nodes

all

any

Return traffic of external traffic.

User cluster pod CIDR

User cluster pod CIDR

all

any

Inter-pod traffic does L2 forwarding directly with pod CIDR. No overlay.

User cluster nodes

User cluster pod CIDR

all

any

External traffic get SNATted on the first node and sent to pod IP.

User cluster pod CIDR

User cluster nodes

all

any

Return traffic of external traffic.

Connect Agent, which runs on a random user cluster worker node.

gkeconnect.googleapis.com
gkehub.googleapis.com
www.googleapis.com
oauth2.googleapis.com
accounts.google.com

443

TCP/https

Connect traffic.

Cloud Logging Collector, which runs on a random user cluster worker node

oauth2.googleapis.com
logging.googleapis.com
stackdriver.googleapis.com
servicecontrol.googleapis.com

443

TCP/https

Cloud Monitoring Collector, which runs on a random user cluster worker node

oauth2.googleapis.com
Monitoring.googleapis.com
stackdriver.googleapis.com
servicecontrol.googleapis.com

443

TCP/https

Clients an application end users

VIP of Istio ingress

80, 443

TCP

End user traffic to the ingress service of a user cluster.

Jump server to deploy the admin workstation

checkpoint-api.hashicorp.com
releases.hashicorp.com
vCenter Server API
ESXi VMkernel (mgt) IPs of hosts in target cluster

443

TCP/https

Terraform deployment of the admin workstation.

Admin workstation

gcr.io
quay.io
*.googleusercontent.com
*.googleapis.com
*.docker.io
*.k8s.io"

443

TCP/https

Download Docker images from public Docker registries.

Admin workstation

vCenter Server API

F5 BIG-IP API

443

TCP/https

Cluster bootstrapping

Admin workstation

ESXi VMkernel (mgt) IPs of hosts in target cluster

443

TCP/https

The admin workstation uploads the OVA to the datastore through the ESXi hosts

Admin workstation

Node IP of Admin Cluster Control Plane VM

443

TCP/https

Cluster bootstrapping

Admin workstation

VIP of the admin cluster's Kubernetes API server

VIPs of user clusters' Kubernetes API servers

443

TCP/https

Cluster bootstrapping

User cluster deletion

Admin workstation

Admin cluster control plane node and worker nodes

443

TCP/https

Cluster bootstrapping

Control plane upgrades

Admin workstation

All admin cluster nodes and all user cluster nodes

443

TCP/https

Network validation as part of the gkectl check-config command.

Admin workstation

VIP of the admin cluster's Istio ingress

VIP of user clusters' Istio ingress

443

TCP/https

Network validation as part of the gkectl check-config command.

F5 Self-IP

All admin and all user cluster nodes

30000 - 32767

any

For the data plane traffic that F5 BIG-IP load balances via a virtual server VIP to the node ports on the Kubernetes cluster nodes.

Typically the F5 self-ip is on the same network/subnet as the Kubernetes cluster nodes.