firewalld - Manage arbitrary ports/services with firewalld

New in version 1.4.

Synopsis

  • This module allows for addition or deletion of services and ports either tcp or udp in either running or permanent firewalld rules.

Requirements (on host that executes module)

  • firewalld >= 0.2.11

Options

parameter required default choices comments
immediate
(added in 1.9)
 no
Should this configuration be applied immediately, if set as permanent
interface
(added in 2.1)
 no
The interface you would like to add/remove to/from a zone in firewalld
masquerade
(added in 2.1)
 no
The masquerade setting you would like to enable/disable to/from zones within firewalld
permanent
 no
Should this configuration be in the running firewalld configuration or persist across reboots. As of Ansible version 2.3, permanent operations can operate on firewalld configs when it's not running (requires firewalld >= 3.0.9). (NOTE: If this is false, immediate is assumed true.)
port
 no
Name of a port or port range to add/remove to/from firewalld. Must be in the form PORT/PROTOCOL or PORT-PORT/PROTOCOL for port ranges.
rich_rule
 no
Rich rule to add/remove to/from firewalld.
service
 no
Name of a service to add/remove to/from firewalld - service must be listed in output of firewall-cmd --get-services.
source
(added in 2.0)
 no
The source/network you would like to add/remove to/from firewalld
state
 yes
  • enabled
  • disabled
Should this port accept(enabled) or reject(disabled) connections.
timeout
 no
The amount of time the rule should be in effect for when non-permanent.
zone
 no system-default(public)
  • work
  • drop
  • internal
  • external
  • trusted
  • home
  • dmz
  • public
  • block
The firewalld zone to add/remove to/from (NOTE: default zone can be configured per system but "public" is default from upstream. Available choices can be extended based on per-system configs, listed here are "out of the box" defaults).

Examples

- firewalld:
    service: https
    permanent: true
    state: enabled

- firewalld:
    port: 8081/tcp
    permanent: true
    state: disabled

- firewalld:
    port: 161-162/udp
    permanent: true
    state: enabled

- firewalld:
    zone: dmz
    service: http
    permanent: true
    state: enabled

- firewalld:
    rich_rule: 'rule service name="ftp" audit limit value="1/m" accept'
    permanent: true
    state: enabled

- firewalld:
    source: 192.0.2.0/24
    zone: internal
    state: enabled

- firewalld:
    zone: trusted
    interface: eth2
    permanent: true
    state: enabled

- firewalld:
    masquerade: yes
    state: enabled
    permanent: true
    zone: dmz

Notes

Note

  • Not tested on any Debian based system.
  • Requires the python2 bindings of firewalld, which may not be installed by default if the distribution switched to python 3

Status

This module is flagged as preview which means that it is not guaranteed to have a backwards compatible interface.

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© 2012–2018 Michael DeHaan
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Licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/2.4/firewalld_module.html