Best UI Tools for Managing Firewall Rules with Iptables

If you're into graphical tools, you might want to check out Fwbuilder. It's a bit dated—hasn't been touched in a decade—but it does allow for visual management of firewall rules and should support iptables.

I get where you're coming from. For me, it's all about automation! I use vim or emacs for direct commands and handle everything through testing and staging before hitting production. Clicking around is just not efficient for larger setups.

Definitely! I often use VSCode for managing firewalld rules instead of vim when I'm feeling lazy. I keep my firewalld policies in git and deploy them through Ansible. Oh, and just so you know, firewalld is built on nftables now, so that's what I'm really using. In a past role, we also used Ferm with Ansible for iptables, but that tool hasn’t been updated in ages.

Sounds like you're looking for a way to simplify things. Many in the community have moved past iptables. For example, you can try using Cockpit, which has a firewall interface, but keep in mind it won't be iptables-based.

Have you considered using UFW? It's a simpler alternative that makes managing rules easier.