connecting to mongodb instance through the firewall

[pankaj kumar]

I am trying to open the mongodb instance I created using the compute engine cloud launcher so that I can access it from anywhere. I did the following but it does not seem to work. Can you help?

 

# gcloud config set project my-project

# gcloud compute firewall-rules create allow-mongo --description "Incoming mongo allowed." --source-tags=mongo-arbiter --allow tcp:27017

Created [allow-mongo].

NAME        NETWORK SRC_RANGES RULES     SRC_TAGS            TARGET_TAGS

allow-mongo default            tcp:27017 mongo-arbiter

# gcloud compute firewall-rules create allow-mongo-server --description "Incoming mongo allowed." --source-tags=mongodb-1-server-1 --allow tcp:27017

Created [allow-mongo-server].

NAME               NETWORK SRC_RANGES RULES     SRC_TAGS           TARGET_TAGS

allow-mongo-server default            tcp:27017 mongodb-server

Reset the database servers from the console. But still "telnet <ip> 27017" does not seem to work. Can you please help?

Thanks

[Nick (Cloud Platform Support)]

Hey Pankaj,

This type of question - a specific issue technical support request - should be posted to a Stack Exchange site like stackoverflow.com. This forum is meant more for general and high-level discussion of the platform. However, I'll be happy to assist you here. Some questions which should be asked at this point:

* Where are you connecting from with telnet?
* Can you SSH into the instance and ensure that it's listening on 27017 with "sudo netstat -plant"?
* Are you perhaps confusing "source-tags" with "target-tags" when you create the firewall rules?

Feel free to include any questions you may have in your reply.

Best wishes,

Nick
Cloud Platform Community Support

[pankaj kumar]

Hi Nick,

* I am connecting from my home computer

* It is listening on 27017 and funnily there is an established connection from 10.128.0.5

* I tried both but it does not seem to work with target tags as well.

Thanks for your response. I also posted the question on stack overflow if you prefer to answer there: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/36633962/connecting-to-mongodb-instance-on-google-app-engine

Thanks

[Nick (Cloud Platform Support)]

Thanks for replying. I'll reply there.