cross posted with this Project Atomic blog post TL;DR Fedora Atomic Host (and derivatives) will now include the firewalld package in the base OSTree that is tested, delivered, and released every two weeks. Existing users should observe no change as it won’t be enabled by default. Firewalld in Atomic Host In the past we have had requests to have firewalld in Atomic Host to enable a better interface into firewall management for administrators and management software.