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I am currently looking into ansibles to store my configurations and deploy services more easily.

I have couple of iptable rules in /etc/iptables/rules.v4, which I can easily restore. Meanwhile, ansible has iptable role for configurations - hence, I am confused on what approach to take.

How do I persist this rules, especially across reboots? Should I rerun ansible every time on each reboot? I am at loss on how to best manage iptables, as other services can interact with it. How do you folks handle this? Thanks in advance!

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[–] polarity_inverter@startrek.website 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You could either copy them to the top of your template, or you could take a look at the blockinfile module

[–] mhzawadi@lemmy.horwood.cloud 1 points 1 year ago

The way I have my file, is a load of default stuff. Like block windows ports and allow SSH.

With a for loop that adds stuff for a specific host, like allow http/s for the web server.

[–] someacnt@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks a lot! I will go with the blockinfile, sounds promising.