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Status Future consideration
Workspace z/OS
Categories Container Extensions (zCX)
Created by Guest
Created on Mar 27, 2023

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Enhance z/OS IP Filtering so that rules can be defined to control access to ports that containers in zCX are listening on

Currently z/OS IP filtering only allows rules to be defined to control access to the TCPIP address that a zCX Instance uses.

In a zCX instance, we can run a number of docker containers, each listening on different TCPIP Ports.  Each of these containers can be running applications for different business purposes.  

z/OS IP filtering should be enhanced so that rules can be defined to control who can access different TCPIP Ports that are being listened to by the different containers

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
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    |     Mar 28, 2023

    We solved the problem with a reverse proxy. This has the advantage, you can also share a port and point to another container depending on the source IP. There is also the possibility to use TCP whitelisting to restrict access to containers.

    https://doc.traefik.io/traefik/routing/routers/ (ClientIP) or https://doc.traefik.io/traefik/middlewares/http/ipwhitelist/

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