Method: firewallPolicies.patch

Patches the specified policy with the data included in the request.

HTTP request

PATCH https://compute.googleapis.com/compute/v1/locations/global/{firewallPolicy=firewallPolicies/*}

The URL uses gRPC Transcoding syntax.

Path parameters

Parameters
firewallPolicy

string

Name of the firewall policy to update.

Query parameters

Parameters
requestId

string

An optional request ID to identify requests. Specify a unique request ID so that if you must retry your request, the server will know to ignore the request if it has already been completed.

For example, consider a situation where you make an initial request and the request times out. If you make the request again with the same request ID, the server can check if original operation with the same request ID was received, and if so, will ignore the second request. This prevents clients from accidentally creating duplicate commitments.

The request ID must be a valid UUID with the exception that zero UUID is not supported (00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000).

Request body

The request body contains data with the following structure:

JSON representation 
{
  "kind": string,
  "id": string,
  "creationTimestamp": string,
  "name": string,
  "description": string,
  "rules": [
    {
      "kind": string,
      "ruleName": string,
      "description": string,
      "priority": integer,
      "match": {
        "srcIpRanges": [
          string
        ],
        "destIpRanges": [
          string
        ],
        "layer4Configs": [
          {
            "ipProtocol": string,
            "ports": [
              string
            ]
          }
        ],
        "srcSecureTags": [
          {
            "name": string,
            "state": enum
          }
        ],
        "destAddressGroups": [
          string
        ],
        "srcAddressGroups": [
          string
        ],
        "srcFqdns": [
          string
        ],
        "destFqdns": [
          string
        ],
        "srcRegionCodes": [
          string
        ],
        "destRegionCodes": [
          string
        ],
        "destThreatIntelligences": [
          string
        ],
        "srcThreatIntelligences": [
          string
        ]
      },
      "action": string,
      "securityProfileGroup": string,
      "tlsInspect": boolean,
      "direction": enum,
      "targetResources": [
        string
      ],
      "enableLogging": boolean,
      "ruleTupleCount": integer,
      "targetServiceAccounts": [
        string
      ],
      "targetSecureTags": [
        {
          "name": string,
          "state": enum
        }
      ],
      "disabled": boolean
    }
  ],
  "fingerprint": string,
  "selfLink": string,
  "selfLinkWithId": string,
  "associations": [
    {
      "name": string,
      "attachmentTarget": string,
      "firewallPolicyId": string,
      "shortName": string,
      "displayName": string
    }
  ],
  "ruleTupleCount": integer,
  "shortName": string,
  "displayName": string,
  "parent": string,
  "region": string
}
Fields
kind

string

[Output only] Type of the resource. Always compute#firewallPolicyfor firewall policies
id

string (uint64 format)

[Output Only] The unique identifier for the resource. This identifier is defined by the server.
creationTimestamp

string

[Output Only] Creation timestamp in RFC3339 text format.
name

string

Name of the resource. For Organization Firewall Policies it's a [Output Only] numeric ID allocated by Google Cloud which uniquely identifies the Organization Firewall Policy.
description

string

An optional description of this resource. Provide this property when you create the resource.
rules[]

object

A list of rules that belong to this policy. There must always be a default rule (rule with priority 2147483647 and match "*"). If no rules are provided when creating a firewall policy, a default rule with action "allow" will be added.
rules[].kind

string

[Output only] Type of the resource. Returns compute#firewallPolicyRule for firewall rules and compute#packetMirroringRule for packet mirroring rules.
rules[].ruleName

string

An optional name for the rule. This field is not a unique identifier and can be updated.
rules[].description

string

An optional description for this resource.
rules[].priority

integer

An integer indicating the priority of a rule in the list. The priority must be a positive value between 0 and 2147483647. Rules are evaluated from highest to lowest priority where 0 is the highest priority and 2147483647 is the lowest priority.
rules[].match

object

A match condition that incoming traffic is evaluated against. If it evaluates to true, the corresponding 'action' is enforced.
rules[].match.srcIpRanges[]

string

CIDR IP address range. Maximum number of source CIDR IP ranges allowed is 5000.
rules[].match.destIpRanges[]

string

CIDR IP address range. Maximum number of destination CIDR IP ranges allowed is 5000.
rules[].match.layer4Configs[]

object

Pairs of IP protocols and ports that the rule should match.
rules[].match.layer4Configs[].ipProtocol

string

The IP protocol to which this rule applies. The protocol type is required when creating a firewall rule. This value can either be one of the following well known protocol strings (tcp, udp, icmp, esp, ah, ipip, sctp), or the IP protocol number.
rules[].match.layer4Configs[].ports[]

string

An optional list of ports to which this rule applies. This field is only applicable for UDP or TCP protocol. Each entry must be either an integer or a range. If not specified, this rule applies to connections through any port.

Example inputs include: ["22"], ["80","443"], and ["12345-12349"].
rules[].match.srcSecureTags[]

object

firewallPolicies.list of secure tag values, which should be matched at the source of the traffic. For INGRESS rule, if all the srcSecureTag are INEFFECTIVE, and there is no srcIpRange, this rule will be ignored. Maximum number of source tag values allowed is 256.
rules[].match.srcSecureTags[].name

string

Name of the secure tag, created with TagManager's TagValue API.
rules[].match.srcSecureTags[].state

enum

[Output Only] State of the secure tag, either EFFECTIVE or INEFFECTIVE. A secure tag is INEFFECTIVE when it is deleted or its network is deleted.
rules[].match.destAddressGroups[]

string

Address groups which should be matched against the traffic destination. Maximum number of destination address groups is 10.
rules[].match.srcAddressGroups[]

string

Address groups which should be matched against the traffic source. Maximum number of source address groups is 10.
rules[].match.srcFqdns[]

string

Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN) which should be matched against traffic source. Maximum number of source fqdn allowed is 100.
rules[].match.destFqdns[]

string

Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN) which should be matched against traffic destination. Maximum number of destination fqdn allowed is 100.
rules[].match.srcRegionCodes[]

string

Region codes whose IP addresses will be used to match for source of traffic. Should be specified as 2 letter country code defined as per ISO 3166 alpha-2 country codes. ex."US" Maximum number of source region codes allowed is 5000.
rules[].match.destRegionCodes[]

string

Region codes whose IP addresses will be used to match for destination of traffic. Should be specified as 2 letter country code defined as per ISO 3166 alpha-2 country codes. ex."US" Maximum number of dest region codes allowed is 5000.
rules[].match.destThreatIntelligences[]

string

Names of Network Threat Intelligence lists. The IPs in these lists will be matched against traffic destination.
rules[].match.srcThreatIntelligences[]

string

Names of Network Threat Intelligence lists. The IPs in these lists will be matched against traffic source.
rules[].action

string

The Action to perform when the client connection triggers the rule. Valid actions for firewall rules are: "allow", "deny", "apply_security_profile_group" and "goto_next". Valid actions for packet mirroring rules are: "mirror", "do_not_mirror" and "goto_next".
rules[].securityProfileGroup

string

A fully-qualified URL of a SecurityProfile resource instance. Example: https://networksecurity.googleapis.com/v1/projects/{project}/locations/{location}/securityProfileGroups/my-security-profile-group Must be specified if action is one of 'apply_security_profile_group' or 'mirror'. Cannot be specified for other actions.
rules[].tlsInspect

boolean

Boolean flag indicating if the traffic should be TLS decrypted. Can be set only if action = 'apply_security_profile_group' and cannot be set for other actions.
rules[].direction

enum

The direction in which this rule applies.
rules[].targetResources[]

string

A list of network resource URLs to which this rule applies. This field allows you to control which network's VMs get this rule. If this field is left blank, all VMs within the organization will receive the rule.
rules[].enableLogging

boolean

Denotes whether to enable logging for a particular rule. If logging is enabled, logs will be exported to the configured export destination in Stackdriver. Logs may be exported to BigQuery or Pub/Sub. Note: you cannot enable logging on "goto_next" rules.
rules[].ruleTupleCount

integer

[Output Only] Calculation of the complexity of a single firewall policy rule.
rules[].targetServiceAccounts[]

string

A list of service accounts indicating the sets of instances that are applied with this rule.
rules[].targetSecureTags[]

object

A list of secure tags that controls which instances the firewall rule applies to. If targetSecureTag are specified, then the firewall rule applies only to instances in the VPC network that have one of those EFFECTIVE secure tags, if all the targetSecureTag are in INEFFECTIVE state, then this rule will be ignored. targetSecureTag may not be set at the same time as targetServiceAccounts. If neither targetServiceAccounts nor targetSecureTag are specified, the firewall rule applies to all instances on the specified network. Maximum number of target label tags allowed is 256.
rules[].targetSecureTags[].name

string

Name of the secure tag, created with TagManager's TagValue API.
rules[].targetSecureTags[].state

enum

[Output Only] State of the secure tag, either EFFECTIVE or INEFFECTIVE. A secure tag is INEFFECTIVE when it is deleted or its network is deleted.
rules[].disabled

boolean

Denotes whether the firewall policy rule is disabled. When set to true, the firewall policy rule is not enforced and traffic behaves as if it did not exist. If this is unspecified, the firewall policy rule will be enabled.
fingerprint

string (bytes format)

Specifies a fingerprint for this resource, which is essentially a hash of the metadata's contents and used for optimistic locking. The fingerprint is initially generated by Compute Engine and changes after every request to modify or update metadata. You must always provide an up-to-date fingerprint hash in order to update or change metadata, otherwise the request will fail with error 412 conditionNotMet.

To see the latest fingerprint, make get() request to the firewall policy.

A base64-encoded string.
associations[]

object

A list of associations that belong to this firewall policy.
associations[].name

string

The name for an association.
associations[].attachmentTarget

string

The target that the firewall policy is attached to.
associations[].firewallPolicyId

string

[Output Only] The firewall policy ID of the association.
associations[].shortName

string

[Output Only] The short name of the firewall policy of the association.
associations[].displayName
(deprecated)

string

[Output Only] Deprecated, please use short name instead. The display name of the firewall policy of the association.
ruleTupleCount

integer

[Output Only] Total count of all firewall policy rule tuples. A firewall policy can not exceed a set number of tuples.
shortName

string

User-provided name of the Organization firewall policy. The name should be unique in the organization in which the firewall policy is created. This field is not applicable to network firewall policies. This name must be set on creation and cannot be changed. The name must be 1-63 characters long, and comply with RFC1035. Specifically, the name must be 1-63 characters long and match the regular expression [a-z]([-a-z0-9]*[a-z0-9])? which means the first character must be a lowercase letter, and all following characters must be a dash, lowercase letter, or digit, except the last character, which cannot be a dash.
displayName
(deprecated)

string

Deprecated, please use short name instead. User-provided name of the Organization firewall policy. The name should be unique in the organization in which the firewall policy is created. This field is not applicable to network firewall policies. This name must be set on creation and cannot be changed. The name must be 1-63 characters long, and comply with RFC1035. Specifically, the name must be 1-63 characters long and match the regular expression [a-z]([-a-z0-9]*[a-z0-9])? which means the first character must be a lowercase letter, and all following characters must be a dash, lowercase letter, or digit, except the last character, which cannot be a dash.
parent

string

[Output Only] The parent of the firewall policy. This field is not applicable to network firewall policies.
region

string

[Output Only] URL of the region where the regional firewall policy resides. This field is not applicable to global firewall policies. You must specify this field as part of the HTTP request URL. It is not settable as a field in the request body.

Response body

Represents an Operation resource.

Google Compute Engine has three Operation resources:

You can use an operation resource to manage asynchronous API requests. For more information, read Handling API responses.

Operations can be global, regional or zonal.

  • For global operations, use the globalOperations resource.
  • For regional operations, use the regionOperations resource.
  • For zonal operations, use the zoneOperations resource.

For more information, read Global, Regional, and Zonal Resources.

Note that completed Operation resources have a limited retention period.

If successful, the response body contains data with the following structure:

JSON representation 
{
  "kind": string,
  "id": string,
  "creationTimestamp": string,
  "name": string,
  "zone": string,
  "clientOperationId": string,
  "operationType": string,
  "targetLink": string,
  "targetId": string,
  "status": enum,
  "statusMessage": string,
  "user": string,
  "progress": integer,
  "insertTime": string,
  "startTime": string,
  "endTime": string,
  "error": {
    "errors": [
      {
        "code": string,
        "location": string,
        "message": string,
        "errorDetails": [
          {
            "errorInfo": {
              "reason": string,
              "domain": string,
              "metadatas": {
                string: string,
                ...
              }
            },
            "quotaInfo": {
              "metricName": string,
              "limitName": string,
              "dimensions": {
                string: string,
                ...
              },
              "limit": number,
              "futureLimit": number,
              "rolloutStatus": enum
            },
            "help": {
              "links": [
                {
                  "description": string,
                  "url": string
                }
              ]
            },
            "localizedMessage": {
              "locale": string,
              "message": string
            }
          }
        ]
      }
    ]
  },
  "warnings": [
    {
      "code": enum,
      "message": string,
      "data": [
        {
          "key": string,
          "value": string
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "httpErrorStatusCode": integer,
  "httpErrorMessage": string,
  "selfLink": string,
  "region": string,
  "description": string,
  "operationGroupId": string,

  // Union field metadata can be only one of the following:
  "setCommonInstanceMetadataOperationMetadata": {
    "clientOperationId": string,
    "perLocationOperations": {
      string: {
        "state": enum,
        "error": {
          "code": integer,
          "message": string,
          "details": [
            {
              "@type": string,
              field1: ...,
              ...
            }
          ]
        }
      },
      ...
    }
  },
  "instancesBulkInsertOperationMetadata": {
    "perLocationStatus": {
      string: {
        "status": enum,
        "targetVmCount": integer,
        "createdVmCount": integer,
        "failedToCreateVmCount": integer,
        "deletedVmCount": integer
      },
      ...
    }
  }
  // End of list of possible types for union field metadata.
}
Fields
kind

string

[Output Only] Type of the resource. Always compute#operation for Operation resources.
id

string (uint64 format)

[Output Only] The unique identifier for the operation. This identifier is defined by the server.
creationTimestamp

string

[Deprecated] This field is deprecated.
name

string

[Output Only] Name of the operation.
zone

string

[Output Only] The URL of the zone where the operation resides. Only applicable when performing per-zone operations.
clientOperationId

string

[Output Only] The value of requestId if you provided it in the request. Not present otherwise.
operationType

string

[Output Only] The type of operation, such as insert, update, or delete, and so on.
targetId

string (uint64 format)

[Output Only] The unique target ID, which identifies a specific incarnation of the target resource.
status

enum

[Output Only] The status of the operation, which can be one of the following: PENDING, RUNNING, or DONE.
statusMessage

string

[Output Only] An optional textual description of the current status of the operation.
user

string

[Output Only] User who requested the operation, for example: user@example.com or alice_smith_identifier (global/workforcePools/example-com-us-employees).
progress

integer

[Output Only] An optional progress indicator that ranges from 0 to 100. There is no requirement that this be linear or support any granularity of operations. This should not be used to guess when the operation will be complete. This number should monotonically increase as the operation progresses.
insertTime

string

[Output Only] The time that this operation was requested. This value is in RFC3339 text format.
startTime

string

[Output Only] The time that this operation was started by the server. This value is in RFC3339 text format.
endTime

string

[Output Only] The time that this operation was completed. This value is in RFC3339 text format.
error

object

[Output Only] If errors are generated during processing of the operation, this field will be populated.
error.errors[]

object

[Output Only] The array of errors encountered while processing this operation.
error.errors[].code

string

[Output Only] The error type identifier for this error.
error.errors[].location

string

[Output Only] Indicates the field in the request that caused the error. This property is optional.
error.errors[].message

string

[Output Only] An optional, human-readable error message.
error.errors[].errorDetails[]

object

[Output Only] An optional list of messages that contain the error details. There is a set of defined message types to use for providing details.The syntax depends on the error code. For example, QuotaExceededInfo will have details when the error code is QUOTA_EXCEEDED.
error.errors[].errorDetails[].errorInfo

object
error.errors[].errorDetails[].errorInfo.reason

string

The reason of the error. This is a constant value that identifies the proximate cause of the error. Error reasons are unique within a particular domain of errors. This should be at most 63 characters and match a regular expression of [A-Z][A-Z0-9_]+[A-Z0-9], which represents UPPER_SNAKE_CASE.
error.errors[].errorDetails[].errorInfo.domain

string

The logical grouping to which the "reason" belongs. The error domain is typically the registered service name of the tool or product that generates the error. Example: "pubsub.googleapis.com". If the error is generated by some common infrastructure, the error domain must be a globally unique value that identifies the infrastructure. For Google API infrastructure, the error domain is "googleapis.com".
error.errors[].errorDetails[].errorInfo.metadatas

map (key: string, value: string)

Additional structured details about this error.

Keys must match /[a-z][a-zA-Z0-9-_]+/ but should ideally be lowerCamelCase. Also they must be limited to 64 characters in length. When identifying the current value of an exceeded limit, the units should be contained in the key, not the value. For example, rather than {"instanceLimit": "100/request"}, should be returned as, {"instanceLimitPerRequest": "100"}, if the client exceeds the number of instances that can be created in a single (batch) request.
error.errors[].errorDetails[].quotaInfo

object
error.errors[].errorDetails[].quotaInfo.metricName

string

The Compute Engine quota metric name.
error.errors[].errorDetails[].quotaInfo.limitName

string

The name of the quota limit.
error.errors[].errorDetails[].quotaInfo.dimensions

map (key: string, value: string)

The map holding related quota dimensions.
error.errors[].errorDetails[].quotaInfo.limit

number

Current effective quota limit. The limit's unit depends on the quota type or metric.
error.errors[].errorDetails[].quotaInfo.futureLimit

number

Future quota limit being rolled out. The limit's unit depends on the quota type or metric.
error.errors[].errorDetails[].quotaInfo.rolloutStatus

enum

Rollout status of the future quota limit.
error.errors[].errorDetails[].help

object
error.errors[].errorDetails[].help.links[]

object

URL(s) pointing to additional information on handling the current error.
error.errors[].errorDetails[].help.links[].description

string

Describes what the link offers.
error.errors[].errorDetails[].help.links[].url

string

The URL of the link.
error.errors[].errorDetails[].localizedMessage

object
error.errors[].errorDetails[].localizedMessage.locale

string

The locale used following the specification defined at https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/bcp/bcp47.txt. Examples are: "en-US", "fr-CH", "es-MX"
error.errors[].errorDetails[].localizedMessage.message

string

The localized error message in the above locale.
warnings[]

object

[Output Only] If warning messages are generated during processing of the operation, this field will be populated.
warnings[].code

enum

[Output Only] A warning code, if applicable. For example, Compute Engine returns NO_RESULTS_ON_PAGE if there are no results in the response.
warnings[].message

string

[Output Only] A human-readable description of the warning code.
warnings[].data[]

object

[Output Only] Metadata about this warning in key: value format. For example: 

"data": [  {  "key": "scope",  "value": "zones/us-east1-d"  }
warnings[].data[].key

string

[Output Only] A key that provides more detail on the warning being returned. For example, for warnings where there are no results in a list request for a particular zone, this key might be scope and the key value might be the zone name. Other examples might be a key indicating a deprecated resource and a suggested replacement, or a warning about invalid network settings (for example, if an instance attempts to perform IP forwarding but is not enabled for IP forwarding).
warnings[].data[].value

string

[Output Only] A warning data value corresponding to the key.
httpErrorStatusCode

integer

[Output Only] If the operation fails, this field contains the HTTP error status code that was returned. For example, a 404 means the resource was not found.
httpErrorMessage

string

[Output Only] If the operation fails, this field contains the HTTP error message that was returned, such as NOT FOUND.
region

string

[Output Only] The URL of the region where the operation resides. Only applicable when performing regional operations.
description

string

[Output Only] A textual description of the operation, which is set when the operation is created.
operationGroupId

string

[Output Only] An ID that represents a group of operations, such as when a group of operations results from a bulkInsert API request.
Union field metadata. [Output Only] Service-specific metadata attached to this operation. metadata can be only one of the following:
setCommonInstanceMetadataOperationMetadata

object

[Output Only] If the operation is for projects.setCommonInstanceMetadata, this field will contain information on all underlying zonal actions and their state.
setCommonInstanceMetadataOperationMetadata.clientOperationId

string

[Output Only] The client operation id.
setCommonInstanceMetadataOperationMetadata.perLocationOperations[]

map (key: string, value: object)

[Output Only] Status information per location (location name is key). Example key: zones/us-central1-a
setCommonInstanceMetadataOperationMetadata.perLocationOperations[].state

enum

[Output Only] Status of the action, which can be one of the following: PROPAGATING, PROPAGATED, ABANDONED, FAILED, or DONE.
setCommonInstanceMetadataOperationMetadata.perLocationOperations[].error

object

[Output Only] If state is ABANDONED or FAILED, this field is populated.
setCommonInstanceMetadataOperationMetadata.perLocationOperations[].error.code

integer

The status code, which should be an enum value of google.rpc.Code.
setCommonInstanceMetadataOperationMetadata.perLocationOperations[].error.message

string

A developer-facing error message, which should be in English. Any user-facing error message should be localized and sent in the google.rpc.Status.details field, or localized by the client.
setCommonInstanceMetadataOperationMetadata.perLocationOperations[].error.details[]

object

A list of messages that carry the error details. There is a common set of message types for APIs to use.

An object containing fields of an arbitrary type. An additional field "@type" contains a URI identifying the type. Example: { "id": 1234, "@type": "types.example.com/standard/id" }.
instancesBulkInsertOperationMetadata

object
instancesBulkInsertOperationMetadata.perLocationStatus[]

map (key: string, value: object)

Status information per location (location name is key). Example key: zones/us-central1-a
instancesBulkInsertOperationMetadata.perLocationStatus[].status

enum

[Output Only] Creation status of BulkInsert operation - information if the flow is rolling forward or rolling back.
instancesBulkInsertOperationMetadata.perLocationStatus[].targetVmCount

integer

[Output Only] Count of VMs originally planned to be created.
instancesBulkInsertOperationMetadata.perLocationStatus[].createdVmCount

integer

[Output Only] Count of VMs successfully created so far.
instancesBulkInsertOperationMetadata.perLocationStatus[].failedToCreateVmCount

integer

[Output Only] Count of VMs that started creating but encountered an error.
instancesBulkInsertOperationMetadata.perLocationStatus[].deletedVmCount

integer

[Output Only] Count of VMs that got deleted during rollback.

Authorization scopes

Requires one of the following OAuth scopes:

  • https://www.googleapis.com/auth/compute
  • https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform

For more information, see the Authentication Overview.

IAM Permissions

In addition to any permissions specified on the fields above, authorization requires one or more of the following IAM permissions:

  • compute.firewallPolicies.get
  • compute.firewallPolicies.update

To find predefined roles that contain those permissions, see Compute Engine IAM Roles.