Actually move to nftables for any host with nftables: true (nothing atm).

Signed-off-by: James Antill <jantill@redhat.com>

inventory/group_vars/all

@@ -87,8 +87,6 @@ createrepo: True
 # Groups and individual hosts should override them with specific info.
 custom6_rules: []
 custom_rules: []
-nft_custom6_rules: []
-nft_custom_rules: []
 # most of our systems are in IAD2
 datacenter: iad2
 
@@ -151,6 +149,11 @@ nagios_Check_Services:
   sshd: true
   swap: true
 nat_rules: []
+# Do we want to use nftables instead of iptables
+nftables: false
+# nftables variants of custom*_rules
+nft_custom6_rules: []
+nft_custom_rules: []
 # default network block device encryption settings for linux-system-roles/nbde_client
 nbde: true
 nbde_device: /dev/md2

playbooks/check-host.yml

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # tags defined: [check], services, updates, restart, fileverify, iptables, selinux
 # for the fix part, I guess its better to include the role(s) for particular host that brings the system
-# to the desired state in terms of: services, updates, file verification, iptables, and selinux
+# to the desired state in terms of: services, updates, file verification, iptables, nftables, and selinux
 ---
 - hosts: "{{ target }}"
   user: root
@@ -185,6 +185,14 @@
       - check
       - iptables
 
+  - name: Check if using nftables
+    ansible.builtin.shell: /sbin/nft list ruleset
+    register: nftablesn
+    changed_when: false
+    tags:
+      - check
+      - iptables
+
   - name: Show iptables rules
     ansible.builtin.shell: echo "{{iptablesn.stdout_lines}}" >> {{ temp_dir.stdout }}/iptables
     changed_when: false
@@ -192,6 +200,13 @@
       - check
       - iptables
 
+  - name: Show nftables rules
+    ansible.builtin.shell: echo "{{nftablesn.stdout_lines}}" >> {{ temp_dir.stdout }}/nftables
+    changed_when: false
+    tags:
+      - check
+      - iptables
+
   - name: Show current SELinux status
     ansible.builtin.shell: echo "SELinux is {{ ansible_selinux.status }} for this System" >> {{temp_dir.stdout}}/selinux
     changed_when: false

roles/base/tasks/main.yml

@@ -141,22 +141,34 @@
   tags:
   - packages
   - base
+  when: not nftables
+
+- name: Ensure nftables is installed
+  ansible.builtin.package: state=present name=nftables
+  tags:
+  - packages
+  - base
+  when: nftables
 
 - name: Ensure ipset is installed
   ansible.builtin.package: state=present name=ipset
   tags:
   - packages
   - base
+  when: not nftables
 
 - name: Setup builder ipset if this is a new install
   ansible.builtin.shell: "/usr/sbin/ipset create osbuildapi hash:ip; touch /etc/sysconfig/ipset-osbuildapi"
   args:
     creates: /etc/sysconfig/ipset-osbuildapi
-  when: "'osbuild' in group_names"
+  when:
+  - "'osbuild' in group_names"
+  - not nftables
   tags:
     - base
     - iptables
 
+# Note that these should do both iptables/ipset and nftables...
 - name: Install blocklist update script
   ansible.builtin.copy:
     src: "{{ private }}/files/blocklist/blocklist-update.sh"
@@ -195,7 +207,9 @@
     - iptables/iptables.{{ host_group }}
     - iptables/iptables.{{ env }}
     - iptables/iptables
-  when: baseiptables|bool
+  when:
+  - baseiptables|bool
+  - not nftables
   notify:
   - Restart iptables
   - Reload libvirtd
@@ -210,7 +224,19 @@
   - iptables
   - service
   - base
-  when: baseiptables|bool
+  when:
+  - baseiptables|bool
+  - not nftables
+
+- name: Nftables service enabled
+  service: name=nftables state=started enabled=true
+  tags:
+  - iptables
+  - service
+  - base
+  when:
+  - baseiptables|bool
+  - nftables
 
 - name: Ip6tables
   ansible.builtin.template: src={{ item }} dest=/etc/sysconfig/ip6tables mode=0600 backup=yes
@@ -220,7 +246,9 @@
     - iptables/ip6tables.{{ host_group }}
     - iptables/ip6tables.{{ env }}
     - iptables/ip6tables
-  when: baseiptables|bool
+  when:
+  - baseiptables|bool
+  - not nftables
   notify:
   - Restart ip6tables
   - Reload libvirtd
@@ -235,7 +263,9 @@
   - ip6tables
   - service
   - base
-  when: baseiptables|bool
+  when:
+  - baseiptables|bool
+  - not nftables
 
 - name: Enable journald persistence
   ansible.builtin.file: path=/var/log/journal state=directory