Comment on Ansible iptables best practices?

non_burglar@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• DasFaultier@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Yeah, ansible.builtin.iptables makes the changes and the task then notifies a handler to invoke iptables-save.

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  • non_burglar@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    There’s a bunch of posts about the iptables-save function of the built-in iptables module not working in many cases, so I figured it was a safer bet to suggest the playbook include an actual command invocation.

    In my personal experience, the module doesnt actually save the persistent rule in about half the cases. I haven’t looked into it much, but it seems happen more on systems where systemd iptables-firewall is present. (Not trying to start a flame war)

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    • DasFaultier@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Sorry for being unclear, that’s what I meant. Set rules using the Ansible module, make them persistent by notifying a handler that makes a cmd call.

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