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Virtual Firewalls

Introduction to using Virtual Firewalls on CoreWeave Cloud

The recommended method for accessing resources hosted outside of a VPC is to attach a regular CoreWeave Cloud Native NIC to a Pod or to a Virtual Server.

However, certain users may want to deploy and manage their own Virtual Firewalls to bridge a VPC to the outside world instead.

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Virtual Firewalls come with additional cost and scaling considerations, as all traffic will be routed through a single point instead of being handled by the CoreWeave Network Fabric.

If you would like to use your own firewall or virtual appliance, it must adhere to the following criteria:

  • must be able to run on the KVM hypervisor
  • appliances providing images in QCOW2 or RAW format must require no conversion to install
  • must support SR-IOV NICs from Intel and Mellanox
    Note: Most Linux- and BSD-based firewalls support these. CoreWeave does not support software virtualized NIC drivers such as virtio-net or VMXNET for Layer 2 VPC interfaces, out of concerns for performance.

If these criteria are satisfied, the firewall or virtual appliance can be deployed on CoreWeave Cloud.

Setup guides

For your convenience, CoreWeave provides the following setup guides for popular Virtual Firewalls: