
Secure access to your GCP instances with IAP
Not secure by default Let’s start with a bold statement: Google Cloud IaaS is not secure by default. Don’t start scrambling your security engineers just yet, the solution is just a few reading minutes away… To make it as convenient as possible, tcp ports 22 (SSH) and 3389 (RDP) are opened by default in the firewall after clicking through the ‘create instance’ wizard in Google Cloud’s default network. (source) This way, if your vm has a public IP, your virtual machine is reachable through RDP (Windows) or SSH (Linux) right after creation....