How to reload the Firewalld service using Ansible?

Question

I have added some rules to firewalld on CentOS via Ansible. But I need to reload the firewalld daemon for the service to work properly and permanently. Is there a way to do this in Ansible?

Here is my Ansible code:

- name: Add port to firewalld
  firewalld:
    port: "{{ item }}"
    permanent: yes
    state: enabled
  when: ansible_distribution == 'CentOS' or ansible_distribution == 'Red Hat Enterprise Linux'
  loop:
    - 8080/tcp
    - 8000/tcp
    - 8090/tcp
    - 8040/tcp

Answer 1

As per the documentation the firewalld module can only be used to add / remove / update rules from the firewalld ruleset. To reload the service use the service module like this (as per documentation):

- name: Always reload firewalld
  ansible.builtin.service:
    name: firewalld
    state: reloaded