Category: AWS

Palo Alto VM-Series Firewall: GlobalProtect – AWS SAML

  GlobalProtect supports various authorization methods, including SAML 2.0 IdP. This example shows how to set up authorization using AWS SSO. AWS Before adding SAML IdP, you must already have AWS Directory Service configured To begin with, let’s add an application, for this go to “IAM Identity Center” -> “Application assignments” -> “Application” And click “Add … Continue reading "Palo Alto VM-Series Firewall: GlobalProtect – AWS SAML"

Palo Alto VM-Series Firewall: AWS HA Multi AZ for GlobalProtect – Part 2

  VM-Series Firewall SSH To use WebUI, we need to set an administrator password, for this, need to connect via SSH. After creating instances, it takes 10-15 minutes before the Firewall is initialized and will be available via SSH Connect to the first instance, SSH user – “admin” And execute the following commands: Enter the … Continue reading "Palo Alto VM-Series Firewall: AWS HA Multi AZ for GlobalProtect – Part 2"

Palo Alto VM-Series Firewall: AWS HA Multi AZ for GlobalProtect – Part 1

  The Palo Alto VM-Series Firewall uses an active/passive configuration for high availability. In which the active firewall constantly synchronizes its configuration and information about active sessions with a similarly configured passive firewall. There are two options for achieving HA on AWS: “Secondary IP Move” and “Dataplane Interface Move“. Secondary IP Move If the active … Continue reading "Palo Alto VM-Series Firewall: AWS HA Multi AZ for GlobalProtect – Part 1"

 S3 – Mounting in Linux

In order to mount an S3 Bucket as a file system, you need to install s3fs Create a directory to mount:   And add the following to “/etc/fstab“:   Where: “artem-service-bucket:/upload/” – S3 bucket name and the directory inside the bucket to mount “url=https://s3.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com,endpoint=eu-central-1” – the region where the S3 bucket is located “iam_role” – … Continue reading " S3 – Mounting in Linux"

 Python – AWS EBS creating snapshots based on a tag and keeping only one latest version

This script looks for an EBS in the region “eu-west-1” with a tag whose key is “Application” and the value is passed as an argument, creating a snapshot of this EBS. In the same way, it searches for a snapshot by tag and deletes everything except the last one. An example of running to create … Continue reading " Python – AWS EBS creating snapshots based on a tag and keeping only one latest version"

 Python – AWS S3 keep N latest artifacts

This script gets a list of all directories in the bucket and deletes all objects in each directory, except for the last “N” specified. To run the script, you need to pass two arguments: Bucket name Number of last stored objects How to use it:   main.py: