Today, I released iptables-ng, a cookbook to maintain iptables rules on different machines using chef. But why another cookbook? There are two fairly often used around iptables from Opscode simple_iptables from Dan Crosta Well, I wanted a tool which can do all the following: Configure iptables rules in a consistent and nice way for all distributions Be configured by using LWRPs only Be configured by using node attributes only Respect the way the currently used distribution stores their rules ...