community.aws.networkfirewall_rule_group module – create, delete and modify AWS Network Firewall rule groups

Note

This module is part of the community.aws collection (version 9.0.0).

You might already have this collection installed if you are using the ansible package. It is not included in ansible-core. To check whether it is installed, run ansible-galaxy collection list.

To install it, use: ansible-galaxy collection install community.aws. You need further requirements to be able to use this module, see Requirements for details.

To use it in a playbook, specify: community.aws.networkfirewall_rule_group.

New in community.aws 4.0.0

Synopsis

Requirements

The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.

  • python >= 3.6

  • boto3 >= 1.28.0

  • botocore >= 1.31.0

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

access_key

aliases: aws_access_key_id, aws_access_key, ec2_access_key

string

AWS access key ID.

See the AWS documentation for more information about access tokens https://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/aws-sec-cred-types.html#access-keys-and-secret-access-keys.

The AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID, AWS_ACCESS_KEY or EC2_ACCESS_KEY environment variables may also be used in decreasing order of preference.

The aws_access_key and profile options are mutually exclusive.

The aws_access_key_id alias was added in release 5.1.0 for consistency with the AWS botocore SDK.

The ec2_access_key alias has been deprecated and will be removed in a release after 2024-12-01.

Support for the EC2_ACCESS_KEY environment variable has been deprecated and will be removed in a release after 2024-12-01.

arn

string

The ARN of the Network Firewall rule group.

Exactly one of arn and name must be provided.

aws_ca_bundle

path

The location of a CA Bundle to use when validating SSL certificates.

The AWS_CA_BUNDLE environment variable may also be used.

aws_config

dictionary

A dictionary to modify the botocore configuration.

Parameters can be found in the AWS documentation https://botocore.amazonaws.com/v1/documentation/api/latest/reference/config.html#botocore.config.Config.

capacity

integer

The maximum operating resources that this rule group can use.

Once a rule group is created this parameter is immutable.

See also the AWS documentation about how capacityis calculated https://docs.aws.amazon.com/network-firewall/latest/developerguide/nwfw-rule-group-capacity.html

This option is mandatory when creating a new rule group.

debug_botocore_endpoint_logs

boolean

Use a botocore.endpoint logger to parse the unique (rather than total) "resource:action" API calls made during a task, outputing the set to the resource_actions key in the task results. Use the aws_resource_action callback to output to total list made during a playbook.

The ANSIBLE_DEBUG_BOTOCORE_LOGS environment variable may also be used.

Choices:

  • false ← (default)

  • true

description

string

A description of the AWS Network Firewall rule group.

domain_list

dictionary

Inspection criteria for a domain list rule group.

When set overwrites all Domain List settings with the new configuration.

For more information about domain name based filtering read the AWS documentation https://docs.aws.amazon.com/network-firewall/latest/developerguide/stateful-rule-groups-domain-names.html.

Mutually exclusive with rule_type=stateless.

Mutually exclusive with ip_variables, rule_list and rule_strings.

Exactly one of rule_strings, domain_list or rule_list must be specified at creation time.

action

string / required

Action to perform on traffic that matches the rule match settings.

Choices:

  • "allow"

  • "deny"

domain_names

list / elements=string / required

A list of domain names to look for in the traffic flow.

filter_http

boolean

Whether HTTP traffic should be inspected (uses the host header).

Choices:

  • false ← (default)

  • true

filter_https

boolean

Whether HTTPS traffic should be inspected (uses the SNI).

Choices:

  • false ← (default)

  • true

source_ips

list / elements=string

Used to expand the local network definition beyond the CIDR range of the VPC where you deploy Network Firewall.

endpoint_url

aliases: ec2_url, aws_endpoint_url, s3_url

string

URL to connect to instead of the default AWS endpoints. While this can be used to connection to other AWS-compatible services the amazon.aws and community.aws collections are only tested against AWS.

The AWS_URL or EC2_URL environment variables may also be used, in decreasing order of preference.

The ec2_url and s3_url aliases have been deprecated and will be removed in a release after 2024-12-01.

Support for the EC2_URL environment variable has been deprecated and will be removed in a release after 2024-12-01.

ip_variables

aliases: ip_set_variables

dictionary

A dictionary mapping variable names to a list of IP addresses and address ranges, in CIDR notation.

For example {EXAMPLE_HOSTS:["192.0.2.0/24", "203.0.113.42"]}.

Mutually exclusive with domain_list.

name

string

The name of the Network Firewall rule group.

When name is set, rule_type must also be set.

port_variables

aliases: port_set_variables

dictionary

A dictionary mapping variable names to a list of ports.

For example {SECURE_PORTS:["22", "443"]}.

profile

aliases: aws_profile

string

A named AWS profile to use for authentication.

See the AWS documentation for more information about named profiles https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/cli-configure-profiles.html.

The AWS_PROFILE environment variable may also be used.

The profile option is mutually exclusive with the aws_access_key, aws_secret_key and security_token options.

purge_ip_variables

aliases: purge_ip_set_variables

boolean

Whether to purge variable names not mentioned in the ip_variables dictionary.

To remove all IP Set Variables it is necessary to explicitly set ip_variables={} and purge_port_variables=true.

Choices:

  • false

  • true ← (default)

purge_port_variables

aliases: purge_port_set_variables

boolean

Whether to purge variable names not mentioned in the port_variables dictionary.

To remove all Port Set Variables it is necessary to explicitly set port_variables={} and purge_port_variables=true.

Choices:

  • false

  • true ← (default)

purge_tags

boolean

If purge_tags=true and tags is set, existing tags will be purged from the resource to match exactly what is defined by tags parameter.

If the tags parameter is not set then tags will not be modified, even if purge_tags=True.

Tag keys beginning with aws: are reserved by Amazon and can not be modified. As such they will be ignored for the purposes of the purge_tags parameter. See the Amazon documentation for more information https://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/aws_tagging.html#tag-conventions.

Choices:

  • false

  • true ← (default)

region

aliases: aws_region, ec2_region

string

The AWS region to use.

For global services such as IAM, Route53 and CloudFront, region is ignored.

The AWS_REGION or EC2_REGION environment variables may also be used.

See the Amazon AWS documentation for more information http://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/rande.html#ec2_region.

The ec2_region alias has been deprecated and will be removed in a release after 2024-12-01

Support for the EC2_REGION environment variable has been deprecated and will be removed in a release after 2024-12-01.

rule_list

aliases: stateful_rule_list

list / elements=dictionary

Inspection criteria to be used for a 5-tuple based rule group.

When set overwrites all existing 5-tuple rules with the new configuration.

Mutually exclusive with domain_list and rule_strings.

Mutually exclusive with rule_type=stateless.

Exactly one of rule_strings, domain_list or rule_list must be specified at creation time.

For more information about valid values see the AWS documentation https://docs.aws.amazon.com/network-firewall/latest/APIReference/API_StatefulRule.html and https://docs.aws.amazon.com/network-firewall/latest/APIReference/API_Header.html.

Note: Idempotency when comparing AWS Web UI and Ansiible managed rules can not be guaranteed

action

string / required

What Network Firewall should do with the packets in a traffic flow when the flow matches.

Choices:

  • "pass"

  • "drop"

  • "alert"

destination

string / required

The destination IP address or address range to inspect for, in CIDR notation.

To match with any address, specify ANY.

destination_port

string / required

The source port to inspect for.

To match with any port, specify ANY.

direction

string

The direction of traffic flow to inspect.

If set to any, the inspection matches both traffic going from the source to the destination and from the destination to the source.

If set to forward, the inspection only matches traffic going from the source to the destination.

Choices:

  • "forward" ← (default)

  • "any"

protocol

string / required

The protocol to inspect for. To specify all, you can use IP, because all traffic on AWS is IP.

rule_options

dictionary

Additional options for the rule.

5-tuple based rules are converted by AWS into Suricata rules, for more complex options requirements where order matters consider using rule_strings.

A dictionary mapping Suricata RuleOptions names to a list of values.

The examples section contains some examples of using rule_options.

For more information read the AWS documentation https://docs.aws.amazon.com/network-firewall/latest/developerguide/suricata-limitations-caveats.html and the Suricata documentation https://suricata.readthedocs.io/en/suricata-6.0.0/rules/intro.html.

sid

integer / required

The signature ID of the rule.

A unique sid must be passed for all rules.

source

string / required

The source IP address or address range to inspect for, in CIDR notation.

To match with any address, specify ANY.

source_port

string / required

The source port to inspect for.

To match with any port, specify ANY.

rule_order

aliases: stateful_rule_order

string

Indicates how to manage the order of the rule evaluation for the rule group.

Once a rule group is created this parameter is immutable.

Mutually exclusive with rule_type=stateless.

For more information on how rules are evaluated read the AWS documentation https://docs.aws.amazon.com/network-firewall/latest/developerguide/suricata-rule-evaluation-order.html.

Choices:

  • "default"

  • "strict"

rule_strings

list / elements=string

Rules in Suricata format.

If rule_strings is specified, it must include at least one entry.

For more information read the AWS documentation https://docs.aws.amazon.com/network-firewall/latest/developerguide/suricata-limitations-caveats.html and the Suricata documentation https://suricata.readthedocs.io/en/suricata-6.0.0/rules/intro.html.

Mutually exclusive with rule_type=stateless.

Mutually exclusive with domain_list and rule_list.

Exactly one of rule_strings, domain_list or rule_list must be specified at creation time.

rule_type

aliases: type

string

Indicates whether the rule group is stateless or stateful.

Stateless rulesets are currently not supported.

Required if name is set.

Choices:

  • "stateful"

secret_key

aliases: aws_secret_access_key, aws_secret_key, ec2_secret_key

string

AWS secret access key.

See the AWS documentation for more information about access tokens https://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/aws-sec-cred-types.html#access-keys-and-secret-access-keys.

The AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY, AWS_SECRET_KEY, or EC2_SECRET_KEY environment variables may also be used in decreasing order of preference.

The secret_key and profile options are mutually exclusive.

The aws_secret_access_key alias was added in release 5.1.0 for consistency with the AWS botocore SDK.

The ec2_secret_key alias has been deprecated and will be removed in a release after 2024-12-01.

Support for the EC2_SECRET_KEY environment variable has been deprecated and will be removed in a release after 2024-12-01.

session_token

aliases: aws_session_token, security_token, aws_security_token, access_token

string

AWS STS session token for use with temporary credentials.

See the AWS documentation for more information about access tokens https://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/aws-sec-cred-types.html#access-keys-and-secret-access-keys.

The AWS_SESSION_TOKEN, AWS_SECURITY_TOKEN or EC2_SECURITY_TOKEN environment variables may also be used in decreasing order of preference.

The security_token and profile options are mutually exclusive.

Aliases aws_session_token and session_token were added in release 3.2.0, with the parameter being renamed from security_token to session_token in release 6.0.0.

The security_token, aws_security_token, and access_token aliases have been deprecated and will be removed in a release after 2024-12-01.

Support for the EC2_SECRET_KEY and AWS_SECURITY_TOKEN environment variables has been deprecated and will be removed in a release after 2024-12-01.

state

string

Create or remove the Network Firewall rule group.

Choices:

  • "present" ← (default)

  • "absent"

tags

aliases: resource_tags

dictionary

A dictionary representing the tags to be applied to the resource.

If the tags parameter is not set then tags will not be modified.

validate_certs

boolean

When set to false, SSL certificates will not be validated for communication with the AWS APIs.

Setting validate_certs=false is strongly discouraged, as an alternative, consider setting aws_ca_bundle instead.

Choices:

  • false

  • true ← (default)

wait

boolean

Whether to wait for the firewall rule group to reach the ACTIVE or DELETED state before the module returns.

Choices:

  • false

  • true ← (default)

wait_timeout

integer

Maximum time, in seconds, to wait for the firewall rule group to reach the expected state.

Defaults to 600 seconds.

Notes

Note

  • Caution: For modules, environment variables and configuration files are read from the Ansible ‘host’ context and not the ‘controller’ context. As such, files may need to be explicitly copied to the ‘host’. For lookup and connection plugins, environment variables and configuration files are read from the Ansible ‘controller’ context and not the ‘host’ context.

  • The AWS SDK (boto3) that Ansible uses may also read defaults for credentials and other settings, such as the region, from its configuration files in the Ansible ‘host’ context (typically ~/.aws/credentials). See https://boto3.amazonaws.com/v1/documentation/api/latest/guide/credentials.html for more information.

Examples

# Create a rule group
- name: Create a minimal AWS Network Firewall Rule Group
  community.aws.networkfirewall_rule_group:
    name: 'MinimalGroup'
    type: 'stateful'
    capacity: 200
    rule_strings:
      - 'pass tcp any any -> any any (sid:1000001;)'

# Create an example rule group using rule_list
- name: Create 5-tuple Rule List based rule group
  community.aws.networkfirewall_rule_group:
    name: 'ExampleGroup'
    type: 'stateful'
    description: 'My description'
    rule_order: default
    capacity: 100
    rule_list:
      - sid: 1
        direction: forward
        action: pass
        protocol: IP
        source: any
        source_port: any
        destination: any
        destination_port: any

# Create an example rule group using rule_list
- name: Create 5-tuple Rule List based rule group
  community.aws.networkfirewall_rule_group:
    name: 'ExampleGroup'
    type: 'stateful'
    description: 'My description'
    ip_variables:
      SOURCE_IPS: ['203.0.113.0/24', '198.51.100.42']
      DESTINATION_IPS: ['192.0.2.0/24', '198.51.100.48']
    port_variables:
      HTTP_PORTS: [80, 8080]
    rule_order: default
    capacity: 100
    rule_list:
      # Allow 'Destination Unreachable' traffic
      - sid: 1
        action: pass
        protocol: icmp
        source: any
        source_port: any
        destination: any
        destination_port: any
        rule_options:
          itype: 3
      - sid: 2
        action: drop
        protocol: tcp
        source: "$SOURCE_IPS"
        source_port: any
        destination: "$DESTINATION_IPS"
        destination_port: "$HTTP_PORTS"
        rule_options:
          urilen: ["20<>40"]
          # Where only a keyword is needed, add the keword, but no value
          http_uri:
          # Settings where Suricata expects raw strings (like the content
          # keyword) will need to have the double-quotes explicitly escaped and
          # passed because there's no practical way to distinguish between them
          # and flags.
          content: '"index.php"'

# Create an example rule group using Suricata rule strings
- name: Create Suricata rule string based rule group
  community.aws.networkfirewall_rule_group:
    name: 'ExampleSuricata'
    type: 'stateful'
    description: 'My description'
    capacity: 200
    ip_variables:
      EXAMPLE_IP: ['203.0.113.0/24', '198.51.100.42']
      ANOTHER_EXAMPLE: ['192.0.2.0/24', '198.51.100.48']
    port_variables:
      EXAMPLE_PORT: [443, 22]
    rule_strings:
      - 'pass tcp any any -> $EXAMPLE_IP $EXAMPLE_PORT (sid:1000001;)'
      - 'pass udp any any -> $ANOTHER_EXAMPLE any (sid:1000002;)'

# Create an example Domain List based rule group
- name: Create Domain List based rule group
  community.aws.networkfirewall_rule_group:
    name: 'ExampleDomainList'
    type: 'stateful'
    description: 'My description'
    capacity: 100
    domain_list:
      domain_names:
        - 'example.com'
        - '.example.net'
      filter_https: true
      filter_http: true
      action: allow
      source_ips: '192.0.2.0/24'

# Update the description of a rule group
- name: Update the description of a rule group
  community.aws.networkfirewall_rule_group:
    name: 'MinimalGroup'
    type: 'stateful'
    description: 'Another description'

# Update IP Variables for a rule group
- name: Update IP Variables
  community.aws.networkfirewall_rule_group:
    name: 'ExampleGroup'
    type: 'stateful'
    ip_variables:
      EXAMPLE_IP: ['192.0.2.0/24', '203.0.113.0/24', '198.51.100.42']
    purge_ip_variables: false

# Delete a rule group
- name: Delete a rule group
  community.aws.networkfirewall_rule_group:
    name: 'MinimalGroup'
    type: 'stateful'
    state: absent

Return Values

Common return values are documented here, the following are the fields unique to this module:

Key

Description

rule_group

dictionary

Details of the rules in the rule group

Returned: success

rule_group

dictionary

Details of the rules in the rule group

Returned: success

rule_variables

complex

Settings that are available for use in the rules in the rule group.

Returned: When rule variables are attached to the rule group.

ip_sets

dictionary

A dictionary mapping variable names to IP addresses in CIDR format.

Returned: success

Sample: ["192.0.2.0/24"]

port_sets

dictionary

A dictionary mapping variable names to ports

Returned: success

Sample: ["42"]

rules_source

dictionary

Inspection criteria used for a 5-tuple based rule group.

Returned: success

rules_source_list

dictionary

A description of the criteria for a domain list rule group.

Returned: When the rule group is “domain list” based.

generated_rules_type

string

Whether the rule group allows or denies access to the domains in the list.

Returned: success

Sample: "ALLOWLIST"

target_types

list / elements=string

The protocols to be inspected by the rule group.

Returned: success

Sample: ["TLS_SNI", "HTTP_HOST"]

targets

list / elements=string

A list of domain names to be inspected for.

Returned: success

Sample: ["abc.example.com", ".example.net"]

rules_string

string

A string describing the rules that the rule group is comprised of.

Returned: When the rule group is “rules string” based.

stateful_rules

list / elements=dictionary

A list of dictionaries describing the rules that the rule group is comprised of.

Returned: When the rule group is “rules list” based.

action

string

What action to perform when a flow matches the rule criteria.

Returned: success

Sample: "PASS"

header

dictionary

A description of the criteria used for the rule.

Returned: success

destination

string

The destination address or range of addresses to inspect for.

Returned: success

Sample: "198.51.100.0/24"

destination_port

string

The destination port to inspect for.

Returned: success

Sample: "6666:6667"

direction

string

The direction of traffic flow to inspect.

Returned: success

Sample: "FORWARD"

protocol

string

The protocol to inspect for.

Returned: success

Sample: "IP"

source

string

The source address or range of addresses to inspect for.

Returned: success

Sample: "203.0.113.98"

source_port

string

The source port to inspect for.

Returned: success

Sample: "42"

rule_options

list / elements=dictionary

Additional Suricata RuleOptions settings for the rule.

Returned: success

keyword

string

The keyword for the setting.

Returned: success

Sample: "sid:1"

settings

list / elements=string

A list of values passed to the setting.

Returned: When values are available

stateless_rules_and_custom_actions

dictionary

A description of the criteria for a stateless rule group.

Returned: When the rule group is a stateless rule group.

custom_actions

list / elements=dictionary

A list of individual custom action definitions that are available for use in stateless rules.

Returned: success

action_definition

dictionary

The custom action associated with the action name.

Returned: success

publish_metric_action

dictionary

The description of an action which publishes to CloudWatch.

Returned: When the action publishes to CloudWatch.

dimensions

list / elements=dictionary

The value to use in an Amazon CloudWatch custom metric dimension.

Returned: success

value

string

The value to use in the custom metric dimension.

Returned: success

action_name

string

The name for the custom action.

Returned: success

stateless_rules

list / elements=dictionary

A list of stateless rules for use in a stateless rule group.

Returned: success

priority

integer

Indicates the order in which to run this rule relative to all of the rules that are defined for a stateless rule group.

Returned: success

rule_definition

dictionary

Describes the stateless 5-tuple inspection criteria and actions for the rule.

Returned: success

actions

list / elements=string

The actions to take when a flow matches the rule.

Returned: success

Sample: ["aws:pass", "CustomActionName"]

match_attributes

dictionary

Describes the stateless 5-tuple inspection criteria for the rule.

Returned: success

destination_ports

list / elements=dictionary

The destination port ranges to inspect for.

Returned: success

from_port

integer

The lower limit of the port range.

Returned: success

to_port

integer

The upper limit of the port range.

Returned: success

destinations

list / elements=dictionary

The destination IP addresses and address ranges to inspect for.

Returned: success

address_definition

string

An IP address or a block of IP addresses in CIDR notation.

Returned: success

Sample: "192.0.2.3"

protocols

list / elements=integer

The IANA protocol numbers of the protocols to inspect for.

Returned: success

Sample: [6]

source_ports

list / elements=dictionary

The source port ranges to inspect for.

Returned: success

from_port

integer

The lower limit of the port range.

Returned: success

to_port

integer

The upper limit of the port range.

Returned: success

sources

list / elements=dictionary

The source IP addresses and address ranges to inspect for.

Returned: success

address_definition

string

An IP address or a block of IP addresses in CIDR notation.

Returned: success

Sample: "192.0.2.3"

tcp_flags

list / elements=dictionary

The TCP flags and masks to inspect for.

Returned: success

flags

list / elements=string

Used with masks to define the TCP flags that flows are inspected for.

Returned: success

masks

list / elements=string

The set of flags considered during inspection.

Returned: success

stateful_rule_options

dictionary

Additional options governing how Network Firewall handles stateful rules.

Returned: When the rule group is either “rules string” or “rules list” based.

rule_order

string

The order in which rules will be evaluated.

Returned: success

Sample: "DEFAULT_ACTION_ORDER"

rule_group_metadata

dictionary

Details of the rules in the rule group

Returned: success

capacity

integer

The maximum operating resources that this rule group can use.

Returned: success

consumed_capacity

integer

The number of capacity units currently consumed by the rule group rules.

Returned: success

description

string

A description of the rule group.

Returned: success

number_of_associations

integer

The number of firewall policies that use this rule group.

Returned: success

rule_group_arn

integer

The ARN for the rule group

Returned: success

Sample: "arn:aws:network-firewall:us-east-1:123456789012:stateful-rulegroup/ExampleGroup"

rule_group_id

integer

A unique identifier for the rule group.

Returned: success

Sample: "12345678-abcd-1234-abcd-123456789abc"

rule_group_name

string

The name of the rule group.

Returned: success

rule_group_status

string

The current status of a rule group.

Returned: success

Sample: "DELETING"

tags

dictionary

A dictionary representing the tags associated with the rule group.

Returned: success

type

string

Whether the rule group is stateless or stateful.

Returned: success

Sample: "STATEFUL"

Authors

  • Mark Chappell (@tremble)