Configure IPtables rules using Ansible

Overview The following article will act as a guide and to demonstrate the process how to configure IPtables rules using Ansible. What does this means is - by using Ansible we will create a playbook that we’re going to use to automatically set IPtables firewall rules on a remote Linux server. This solution may prove to be a good option since not only it will do the job automatically but also enables to perform the same procedure on multiple different hosts at once....

July 14, 2022 · 4 min · 641 words · MarkoN

IPtables commands cheat sheet

IPtables commands cheat sheet Overview IPtables is one of the most well know firewalls(and quite effective as well) which also comes on many Linux distro’s pre-installed by default. The purpose of this post is to act as an Iptables commands cheat sheet, considering how Iptables is powerfull, it’s also has a numerous commands for many networking scenarios. Iptables uses various different table rules with multiple chains to block and allow traffic:...

March 17, 2022 · 11 min · 2211 words · MarkoN