HI Eric!
According to unconfirmed rumors, Eric has a very good and hot line to RedHat. ;)
Maybe he can pass on my wish and suggestion to the developers. O.K. what is it about? I have been a loyal customer for many years and have been a loyal “customer since CentOS7 times”. What I miss in firewalld and especially in firewall-cmd is a kind of fulldump backup and restore functionality. Something like:
firewall-cmd --backup backup-file.back
firewall-cmd --restore backup-file.back
Why all this? Well, for one thing, it would be an adequate way to regularly back up the running firewall rules. And if you restore a previously backed up firewall configuration, this would be a very simple and smooth process. OK, alternatively, I just have to continue to back up the XML files from /etc/firewalld using Ansible and store them in the inventory so that I can deploy them to a host later via ansible.
Or have I overlooked something and the whole thing already exists and I'm worrying about nothing?
Best regards,