Ansible Role: serdigital64.security.sec_firewall_os

Purpose

Manage provisioning of Operating System native Firewall

Supported features in the current version:

  • Deploy application. Packages are defined in the variable sec_firewall_os_profiles.
  • Configure application subsystem. Services are defined in the variable sec_firewall_os_subsystems.
  • Provision Firewall rules:
    • firewalld

The sec_firewall_os Ansible-Role is part of the A:Platform64 project and is available in the security Ansible-Collection.

Usage

The following example is an Ansible Playbook that includes all the supported features:

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---
- name: "Security / Firewall / OS / Usage example"
  hosts: "localhost"
  gather_facts: true

  tasks:
    - name: "Example: Install, setup and start os firewall"
      vars:
        sec_firewall_os:
          resolve_prereq: true
          deploy: true
          setup: true
          provision: true
          control: true
        sec_firewall_os_subsystem:
          enabled: true
          status: "started"
        sec_firewall_os_rules:
          - id: "ssh_allow"
            zone: "public"
            service: "ssh"
            allow: true
      ansible.builtin.include_role:
        name: "serdigital64.security.sec_firewall_os"
...

The playbook can be run by executing:

# Set ANSIBLE_COLLECTIONS_PATHS to the default install location. Change as needed.
ANSIBLE_COLLECTIONS_PATHS="${HOME}/.ansible/collections"
ansible-playbook "${ANSIBLE_COLLECTIONS_PATHS}/ansible_collections/serdigital64/security/playbooks/sec_firewall_os.yml"

Role Parameters

Actions

  • Use action-parameters to control what tasks are enabled for the role to execute.
  • Parameters should be declared as task level vars as they are intented to be dynamic.
sec_firewall_os:
  resolve_prereq:
  deploy:
  setup:
  control:
  provision:
Parameter Required? Type Default Purpose / Value
sec_firewall_os.resolve_prereq no boolean false Enable automatic resolution of prequisites
sec_firewall_os.deploy no boolean false Enable installation of application packages
sec_firewall_os.setup no boolean false Enable application configuration
sec_firewall_os.control no boolean false Enable application subsystem service control
sec_firewall_os.provision no boolean false Enable firewall rules provisioning

End State

  • Use end-state parameters to define the target state after role execution.
  • Parameters should be declared in host_vars or group_vars as they are intended to be permanent.
sec_firewall_os_application:
  name:
  type:
  version:
  installed:
sec_firewall_os_subsystem:
  enabled:
  status:
sec_firewall_os_rules:
  - id:
    zone:
    service:
    port:
    allow:
Parameter Required? Type Default Purpose / Value
sec_firewall_os_application no dictionary Set application package end state
sec_firewall_os_application.name no string "firewall_manager" Select application package name
sec_firewall_os_application.type no string "distro" Select application package type
sec_firewall_os_application.version no string "latest" Select application package version
sec_firewall_os_application.installed no boolean true Set application package end state
sec_firewall_os_subsystem no dictionary Set application subsystem end state
sec_firewall_os_subsystem.enabled no boolean false Enable the subsystem?
sec_firewall_os_subsystem.status no string "stopped" Set the service state
sec_firewall_os_rules no list List of firewall rules
sec_firewall_os_rules.0.id yes string Short name to identify the rule from others
sec_firewall_os_rules.0.zone yes string Apply the rule to this zone
sec_firewall_os_rules.0.service no string Set the target service
sec_firewall_os_rules.0.port no string Set the target port
sec_firewall_os_rules.0.allow yes boolean Set the rule to allow or deny traffic

Deployment

OS Compatibility

The operating system compatibility list is defined in the variable: sec_firewall_os_platforms

Dependencies

  • Ansible Collections:

    • ansible.posix
      • firewalld
    • serdigital64.system
      • sys_package
      • sys_repository
  • Python Modules
    • firewalld

Prerequisites

The Ansible engine must be already installed and configured for privileged access and remote execution.

In addition the following prerequisites can be automatically solved when running the playbook by setting the role action: resolve_prereq: true

  • Package manager for the target application is installed and enabled.

Installation Procedure

Manually install Ansible Collections from the Ansible Galaxy repository:

ansible-galaxy collection install --upgrade serdigital64.security

Automatic installation is also available by deploying A:Platform64

Contributing

Help on implementing new features and maintaining the code base is welcomed.

Please see the guidelines for further details.

Author

License

Apache-2.0