Restrict Load Balancer Creation Based on Load Balancer Types
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Ensure that “Restrict Load Balancer Creation Based on Load Balancer Types” policy is enforced at the GCP organization level.Risk Level
MediumAddress
Operational Maturity, Reliability, SecurityCompliance Standards
CBPTriage and Remediation
Remediation
Using Console
Using Console
To remediate the misconfiguration of Restrict Load Balancer Creation Based on Load Balancer Types in GCP using the GCP console, follow the below steps:
- Open the GCP console and go to the “IAM & Admin” section.
- Click on “Roles” and search for the “Compute Load Balancer Admin” role.
- Click on the “Compute Load Balancer Admin” role and then click on the “Edit” button.
- Scroll down to the “Permissions” section and click on the “Add Permissions” button.
- In the search bar, type “compute.targetPools.create” and select the checkbox next to it.
- Repeat the same process for “compute.forwardingRules.create” and “compute.globalForwardingRules.create”.
- Click on the “Save” button to apply the changes.
Using CLI
Using CLI
To remediate the misconfiguration of restricting Load Balancer creation based on Load Balancer types in GCP using GCP CLI, you can follow these steps:Replace PROJECT_ID with the ID of your GCP project.Replace USER_OR_GROUP with the email address of the user or group that is allowed to create Load Balancers.With these steps, you have successfully remediated the misconfiguration of restricting Load Balancer creation based on Load Balancer types in GCP using GCP CLI.
- Open the GCP Cloud Shell or any terminal with GCP CLI installed, and authenticate with your GCP account using the following command:
- Set the project in which you want to remediate the misconfiguration using the following command:
- Run the following command to create a custom IAM role that restricts the creation of Load Balancers based on their types:
- Run the following command to grant the custom IAM role to the users or groups that are allowed to create Load Balancers:
- Verify that the IAM policy binding has been added successfully using the following command:
Using Python
Using Python
To restrict load balancer creation based on load balancer types in GCP using Python, follow these steps:
- First, you need to create a GCP service account with the required permissions to manage load balancers. You can do this by following the documentation here: https://cloud.google.com/iam/docs/creating-managing-service-accounts
- Then, you need to install the Google Cloud SDK and the Python client library for GCP. You can follow the instructions here: https://cloud.google.com/sdk/docs/install and here: https://cloud.google.com/python/docs/reference
- Next, you need to write a Python script that will check the load balancer type before creating a new load balancer. You can use the GCP Python client library to list the existing load balancers and check their types.
- Here’s some sample code that you can use as a starting point:
- Finally, you can schedule this script to run periodically using a cron job or a similar tool. This will ensure that any load balancers that violate your policy are automatically deleted.