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!
Thank you! Templating rules.v4 is a pretty attractive option. Though my VPS has some portions of the file which should be unmodified, so I would have to avoid this method.
That’s the point of the template, you change the bits the need change and the bits that are static get templated