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iptables Cookbook

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Installs iptables and provides a custom resource for adding and removing iptables rules

Requirements

Platforms

  • Ubuntu/Debian
  • RHEL/CentOS and derivatives
  • Amazon Linux

Chef

  • Chef 15.3+

Resources

Recipes

default

The default recipe will install iptables and provides a pair of resources for managing firewall rules for both iptables and ip6tables.

disabled

The disabled recipe will install iptables, disable the iptables service (on RHEL platforms), and flush the current iptables and ip6tables rules.

Attributes

default['iptables']['iptables_sysconfig'] and default['iptables']['ip6tables_sysconfig'] are hashes that are used to template /etc/sysconfig/iptables-config and /etc/sysconfig/ip6tables-config. The keys must be upper case and any key / value pair included will be added to the config file.

License & Authors

Author: Cookbook Engineering Team (cookbooks@chef.io)

Copyright: 2008-2020, Chef Software, Inc.

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
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