Local and firewalled websites

CloudQA can test applications that aren’t open to the public internet. Choose the approach that fits your setup:

1. Allow CloudQA’s IP addresses through your firewall.
2. Expose a local application with a tunnel.
3. Connect through a VPN.

Allow CloudQA’s IP addresses

Test cases run from fixed IP addresses. Allow them in your firewall, or exclude them from your analytics.

Location	IP address
Northern Virginia	35.199.46.63
Iowa	104.198.39.2
South Carolina	35.237.21.17

Expose a local application with a tunnel

A tunnel gives a web server on your machine a public URL. This example uses ngrok, but any similar tool works.

1. Install ngrok. Download the single executable from the ngrok site. It needs no installation or dependencies: unzip it and run it.

2. Start a tunnel. Run ngrok http <port>. If you don’t know your server’s port, try 80, the default for HTTP. For example:

   ngrok http 80

3. Use the forwarding URL. ngrok shows a console with the tunnel status and the public forwarding URLs. Use the HTTP or HTTPS URL as your application URL in CloudQA.

Tunnel Status      online
Web Interface      http://127.0.0.1:4040
Forwarding         https://92832de0.ngrok.io -> localhost:80

Note

The public URL works only while ngrok is running, and ngrok generates a new URL each time you start it.

Test VPN-restricted applications

All CloudQA executions run on Google Cloud, so CloudQA can set up a managed Google Cloud VPN that supports IKEv1 and IKEv2 IPSec tunnels. To set it up, contact CloudQA with:

• Your VPN gateway IP address
• Your routing method: BGP or static, CIDR-based routing. If you use BGP, also provide details such as your ASN.
• The CIDR range of the applications to test
• Your IKE version
• Confirmation that your phase 1 and phase 2 ciphers are supported by Cloud VPN
• Your IKE pre-shared key