What are host security groups vs regular security groups?

[#1]

What’s the purpose of Host Security Groups option under clouds as shown on the the image. How are they different from security groups?

[#2 · Accepted solution]

Great Question. The morpheus agent has the ability to control iptable rules on hosts like docker hosts or kubernetes hosts outside of the cloud-native security group management. This allows one to optionally use internal firewall management rules.

[#3]

These days, these are rarely used and are mainly there as backups if a native cloud security group solution isn’t available