kennethgillen / ansible-role-iptables-raw

Ansible module to import iptables_raw library

Iptables Raw

Import the Iptables Raw library and make it available as a task. Ensure iptables is active.

See these links for full documentation on the iptables_raw module:

• https://nordeus.com/blog/engineering/managing-iptables-with-ansible-the-easy-way/
• https://github.com/Nordeus/ansible_iptables_raw
• ansible/ansible#21054

Parameters

Optional:

• iptables_raw_disable_firewalld: Disable the firewalld service (if installed and enabled it will conflict), default True

Development

The library/iptables_raw.py version is https://github.com/Nordeus/ansible_iptables_raw/tree/34672590224f393016ad086f82054319108e67ad (2018-02-18) with the following change to prevent ansible-lint/flake8 failing:

diff --git a/library/iptables_raw.py b/library/iptables_raw.py
index 71dfc0d..978a6c7 100644
--- a/library/iptables_raw.py
+++ b/library/iptables_raw.py
@@ -344,7 +344,7 @@ class Iptables:
     def _is_debian(self):
         return os.path.isfile('/etc/debian_version')

-    # If /etc/arch-release exist, this means this is an ArchLinux OS
+    # If /etc/arch-release exist, this means this is an ArchLinux OS
     def _is_arch_linux(self):
         return os.path.isfile('/etc/arch-release')

Example Playbook

- hosts: localhost
  roles:
    - role: iptables-raw

  tasks:
    # Block all incoming connections apart from ssh
    - iptables_raw:
        name: test_rules
        keep_unmanaged: no
        rules: |
          -A INPUT -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT
          -A INPUT -p tcp -m tcp --dport 22 -j ACCEPT
          -A INPUT -j REJECT
          -A FORWARD -j REJECT
          -A OUTPUT -j ACCEPT
        state: present

Author Information

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