Add or Whitelist inbound IP and Port in AWS security group and manage AWS security group rules with aws_ipadd
command.
It makes easy to add your public ip into security group to access AWS resource. Whenever your public ip change, You can easily update new public ip into security group and aws_ipadd
command will manage security group rule for you. It's very helpful when you are accessing aws resources that needs public ip whitelisting in security group to access and your public ip is continously changed.
Currently aws_ipadd supports the following Operating System
- Mac OS X (64bit)
- Linux (64bit)
Download aws_ipadd for your operating system
Linux
wget -c https://github.com/piyushsonigra/aws_ipadd/releases/latest/download/aws_ipadd_linux_x64.tar.gz -O - | tar -xz -C /usr/local/bin/
OSX
wget -c https://github.com/piyushsonigra/aws_ipadd/releases/latest/download/aws_ipadd_osx_x64.tar.gz -O - | tar -xz -C /usr/local/bin/
Note: If you get errors related to permission or access, Please run command with sudo
.
Run below commands to conifgure aws_ipadd command.
Create directory ~/.aws_ipadd
at your home directory.
$ mkdir ~/.aws_ipadd
Create configuration file aws_ipadd
inside ~/.aws_ipadd
.
$ touch ~/.aws_ipadd/aws_ipadd
Edit the ~/.aws_ipadd/aws_ipadd
file and add below Informations as shown in sample configuration file.
-
aws_ipadd profile name in []:
my_project_mysql
andmy_project_ssh
is aws_ipadd profiles to identify configuration which security group rule need to update with port, IP, rule_name and security group region for different AWS account profiles. -
aws_profile: aws_profile is name of AWS profile configured for awscli.
-
region_name: AWS region name in which security group is present.
-
security_group_id: AWS security group id.
-
rule_name: AWS security group rule name to identify rule purpose.
-
port: Network port to whitelist with IP.
Below is the sample configuration of ~/.aws_ipadd/aws_ipadd
file.
$ cat ~/.aws_ipadd/aws_ipadd
[my_project_ssh]
aws_profile = my_project
security_group_id = sg-d26fdre9d
port = 22
rule_name = my_office_ssh
region_name = us-east-1
[my_project_mysql]
aws_profile = my_project
security_group_id = sg-dfg9dwe
port = 3306
rule_name = my_office_mysql
region_name = us-east-1
Run the aws_ipadd command with aws_ipadd profile.
$ aws_ipadd my_project_ssh
Your IP 12.10.1.14/32 and Port 22 is whitelisted successfully.
If your public IP is changed, aws_ipadd will update aws security group rule with your current public IP.
$ aws_ipadd my_project_ssh
Modifying existing rule...
Removing old whitelisted IP '12.10.1.14/32'.
Whitelisting new IP '131.4.10.16/32'.
Rule successfully updated!