firewall-ex cookbook

Simple networking LWRP for Debian/Ubuntu nodes.

Extends 'firewall' to incorporate after, before, and sysctl rules as part of the firewall configuration.

Includes also guards for OpenVZ containers.

Tested on

• Ubuntu 12.04
• Ubuntu 14.04
• Debian 7

Requirements

Depends on the firewall cookbook.

Usage

Including the default recipe will allow access to the LWRP along with install the base 'firewall::default' recipe. Just use in place of the normal firewall LWRP.

firewall_ex 'net' do
  send_redirects false

  postrouting '-s 10.10.10.10 -j MASQUERADE'

  forward '-m state --state RELATED,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT'
  forward '-j ACCEPT'

  action :enable
end

Attributes

Default

• node['firewall-ex']['ipv4_forward'] - sets the ip_forward flag in sysctl.
• node['firewall-ex']['ipv6_forward'] - sets the ipv6 forwarding rules in sysctl.

• node['firewall-ex']['ipv6_enabled'] - apply rules to support IPv6

• node['firewall-ex']['accept_redirects'] - sets the accept_redirects flags in sysctl.

• node['firewall-ex']['send_redirects'] - sets the send_redirects flags in sysctl.

The following firewall iptables rules can also be set as an array of lines.

• node['firewall-ex']['input_rules'] -
• node['firewall-ex']['output_rules'] -
• node['firewall-ex']['postrouting_rules'] -
• node['firewall-ex']['forward_rules'] -
• node['firewall-ex']['forward6_rules'] -

Those that are directly defined in the LWRP are appended to these lists which are empty by default.

Recipes

default

Enables usage of the LWRP firewall_ex

License & Authors

• Author:: Ted Chen (ted@nephilagraphic.com)

Copyright 2014, Nephila Graphic

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