Cloud CDN Global Backend Services Should Have Session Affinity
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Cloud CDN global backend services should have session affinity enabled.Risk Level
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Operational Maturity, Performance Efficiency, SecurityCompliance Standards
CBPTriage and Remediation
Remediation
Using Console
Using Console
To remediate the misconfiguration “Cloud CDN Global Backend Services Should Have Session Affinity” in GCP using GCP console, follow the below steps:
- Open the Google Cloud Console and select the project you want to work with.
- Go to the Navigation menu and select “Network Services” and then select “Cloud CDN”.
- In the Cloud CDN page, select the name of the backend service that you want to remediate.
- In the backend service page, click on the “Edit” button on the top of the page.
- In the “Edit backend service” page, scroll down to the “Session affinity” section.
- Select the “Client IP and protocol” option from the drop-down menu for “Session affinity”.
- Click on the “Save” button to save the changes.
Using CLI
Using CLI
To remediate the misconfiguration “Cloud CDN Global Backend Services Should Have Session Affinity” for GCP using GCP CLI, you can follow these steps:Replace [BACKEND_SERVICE_NAME] with the name of the backend service you identified in step 3.This command should return the following output:This confirms that session affinity has been enabled for the backend service(s) used by your Cloud CDN.Note: Enabling session affinity may result in increased latency and decreased availability, depending on your workload. Therefore, it is important to evaluate the impact of this change before implementing it in a production environment.
- Open the Cloud Shell in the GCP Console.
- Run the following command to list all the backend services in your project:
- Identify the backend service(s) that are used by your Cloud CDN.
- Run the following command to update the backend service(s) and enable session affinity:
- Verify that session affinity is enabled for the backend service(s) by running the following command:
Using Python
Using Python
To remediate the misconfiguration “Cloud CDN Global Backend Services Should Have Session Affinity” for GCP using python, you can follow the below steps:This will enable session affinity for all the global backend services which do not have it enabled.
- First, you need to authenticate with GCP using the below command:
- Next, you need to get the list of all global backend services using the below command:
- For each global backend service, you need to check if session affinity is enabled or not using the below command:
- If session affinity is not enabled for any global backend service, you can enable it using the below command: