Running simple playbooks kills SSH connection

[htgoebel]

When setting up a fresh test system using

debops bootstrap --sudo -K -l server-test
debops yacy -l server-test   # this is my new playbook

the ssh connection get blocks as soon as "Apply iptables rules if ferm is enabled" is run.

The new playbook simply installs YaCr behind nginx.

[drybjed]

debops.ferm uses data gathered by debops.core role to allow connections from Ansible Controller. debops.core is a required role, so if you only want to use specific playbooks with a host without running the common.yml playbook, you should at least include the core.yml playbook in your set of playbooks.

Alternatively, you can use ferm_ansible_controllers to tell ferm which hosts should be explicitly allowed to connect to the remote host without any restrictions.

[varac]

I ran into this as well. I agree with @drybjed but this behaviour should be documented in BIG LETTERS on the debops-ferm doc entry page pls !

[drybjed]

You can do the PR yourself. :-) If you do, please do it against the DebOps monorepo so it can be included in the future documentation, when it's updated and exported from that repository.