Ansible UFW module: inaccurate documentation?

[Lars Sommer]

Having a hell of a time getting UFW to play nicely. Here's what I've got:

Each role (in this case the role is "common", part of our baseline role) has a ufw.yml task file that gets imported to main.yml:

---

- name: Configure UFW for baseline access

  ufw:

    rule=allow

    from_ip={{ item.ip }}

    to_port={{ item.port }}

    state=enabled

  with_items:

    - { ip: "10.0.0.0/8", port: "any" }

    - { ip: "172.16.0.0/12", port: "any" }

    - { ip: "192.168.0.0/16", port: "any" }

    - { ip: bellevue_office_ip, port: "any" }

  sudo: yes

Now there's two problems- 

For the with_items entries that have a non-variable value for ip, those lines return "Error: Could not find protocol" 

For the line that uses the bellevue_office_ip variable, that line returns: "Error: Bad source address"

My confusion is that the protocol parameter shouldn't be mandatory according to the UFW docs page: http://docs.ansible.com/ufw_module.html and that I should be able to use variables in this manner according to the Loops page: http://docs.ansible.com/playbooks_loops.html

What am I missing? I can probably get away from trying to use variables in the with_items loop but boy I'd sure love to use it. The protocol thing though I have no idea, I don't know why that'd be choking me up.

Thanks for any help,

Lars

[Michael DeHaan]

With regards to the variable question:

  with_items:

    - { ip: "10.0.0.0/8", port: "any" }

    - { ip: "172.16.0.0/12", port: "any" }

    - { ip: "192.168.0.0/16", port: "any" }

    - { ip: "{{ bellevue_office_ip }}", port: "any" }

Can you include the full output from the part about the protocol error?

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[Daniel Pool]

Realising that by posting I'm very much raising a zombie, but it's also the first hit on google when searching for the term "ufw Could not find protocol", and it's unsolved; an internet pet peeve of mine.

I've had a similar instance of this error today; it stems from the fact that you can't use the keyword 'any' for the to_port or from_port parameters, it appears the only acceptable values are integers.