Hi all,

I'd like to raise a topic for discussion regarding the changes proposed in a PR 
targeted to 24.0: https://github.com/apache/cloudstack/pull/13684 (reverted). 
The PR proposes changing the default egress policy for Isolated networks from 
Deny to Allow, applying to new installations and to new Isolated networks 
created from new network offerings (existing networks remain unchanged).

The proposed change does not update the egress policy values in the database 
for existing Isolated networks on upgraded environments. However, it does set 
the default egress policy for the default Isolated network offering to Allow on 
fresh installations (starting from 24.0, for example). This results in two 
distinct scenarios:


  *
Upgrading existing environments to 24.0: No change to the default Isolated 
network offering. Any network created from the default network offering after 
the upgrade will behave as before, with a Deny egress policy.
  *
Fresh installations starting on 24.0: The default Isolated network offering 
will have an Allow egress policy. Any network created from the default network 
offering will have Allow egress policy.

As a result, the default Isolated network offering may behave differently 
across environments, depending on whether the environment was freshly installed 
(post-24.0) or upgraded from a long-running deployment.

For new network offerings, the default egress policy will be set to Allow and 
the change can be documented/highlighted in the release notes.

What are your thoughts on the proposed changes? Should we include this in 24.0? 
Any ideas/proposals to the proposed changes? Other feedback?

Regards,
Nicolas Vazquez


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