Open firewall ports in RedHat-like systems — Ansible module firewalld

How to open HTTP and HTTPS firewall ports in RedHat-like systems with Ansible. I’m going to show you a live demo and some simple Ansible code.

How to open firewall ports in RedHat-like systems with Ansible?

I’m going to show you a live demo and some simple Ansible code.

I’m Luca Berton and welcome to today’s episode of Ansible Pilot.

Ansible open firewall ports in RedHat-like systems

Today we’re talking about the Ansible module `firewalld`.

The full name is `ansible.posix.firewalld`, which means that is part of the collection targeting POSIX platforms. This module requires Ansible 2.9+.

It works in RedHat-like systems with firewalld >= 0.2.11 and python firewalld bindings.

It manages arbitrary ports/services with firewalld.

Parameters

• state string — enabled / present / absent / disabled
• service string — firewall-cmd — get-services