community.general.awall – Manage awall policies

Note

This plugin is part of the community.general collection (version 2.5.1).

To install it use: ansible-galaxy collection install community.general.

To use it in a playbook, specify: community.general.awall.

Synopsis

  • This modules allows for enable/disable/activate of awall policies.

  • Alpine Wall (awall) generates a firewall configuration from the enabled policy files and activates the configuration on the system.

Parameters

Parameter Choices/Defaults Comments
activate
boolean
    Choices:
  • no ←
  • yes
Activate the new firewall rules.
Can be run with other steps or on its own.
name
list / elements=string
One or more policy names.
state
string
    Choices:
  • disabled
  • enabled ←
Whether the policies should be enabled or disabled.

Examples

- name: Enable "foo" and "bar" policy
  community.general.awall:
    name: [ foo bar ]
    state: enabled

- name: Disable "foo" and "bar" policy and activate new rules
  community.general.awall:
    name:
    - foo
    - bar
    state: disabled
    activate: no

- name: Activate currently enabled firewall rules
  community.general.awall:
    activate: yes

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