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!
Thanks, but I looked up and learned to prefer the idempotence to be handled by ansible. Ansible support iptables by default, while nftables need a plugin, so iptables it is for me.