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no-public-ip

Default Severity: critical

Explanation

Compute instance requests an IP reservation from a public pool

The compute instance has the ability to be reached from outside, you might want to sonder the use of a non public IP.

Possible Impact

The compute instance has the ability to be reached from outside

Suggested Resolution

Reconsider the use of an public IP

Insecure Example

The following example will fail the oracle-compute-no-public-ip check. 

 resource "opc_compute_ip_address_reservation" "bad_example" {
    name            = "my-ip-address"
    ip_address_pool = "public-ippool"
   }

Secure Example

The following example will pass the oracle-compute-no-public-ip check. 

 resource "opc_compute_ip_address_reservation" "good_example" {
    name            = "my-ip-address"
    ip_address_pool = "cloud-ippool"
   }