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Federated Cloud Networking
Each site of the federation has its own policies regarding networking and configuration is not homogeneous across all of them. In this page we describe the main user-related networking configuration aspects of the resource centers and how to discover and deal with these configurations with the available tools.
Default network
All VMs in the Federated Cloud sites will have a default network and will be assigned a IP within that network, unless explicitly requested not to have a network attached (OpenStack only). This IP may or not be publicly accessible but in both cases, the VM will have outgoing connectivity so you can reach external networks from the VM by default.
Public by default sites
In these sites, your VM will get a publicly accessible IP that will allow at least SSH (port 22) access to the VM. See below for opening other ports if needed by your application.
Private by default sites
When starting a VM on these sites, it will get an IP that is not publicly accessible from outside the site. In order to connect to the VM you will need to perform some extra actions:
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