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Disable VM serial port access

Google Definition

This Boolean constraint disables serial-port access to Compute Engine VMs belonging to the organisation, project or folder where this constraint is set to 'True'.
By default, customers can enable serial-port access for Compute Engine VMs on a per-VM or per-project basis using metadata attributes.
Enforcing this constraint will disable serial-port access for Compute Engine VMs, regardless of the metadata attributes.

Affected resources:

  • GCP GCE

In Solvay...

Access to VMs are strictly controlled and audited.

The authorized method to access VMs are via IAP with SSH or RDP.


If for unforeseen situation that your VMs are no longer able to access via SSH or RDP, please contact the GCP Cloudops for support.

In the worse case scenarios, only the GCP Cloudops team can have the exception to access the VMs via serial port for troubleshooting.


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