Disabling ipv6 on Rocky Linux 8 with Ansible – The Linux Cluster

If you happen to want to disable ipv6 on Rocky Linux 8, there’s a fantastic writeup on the script discovered at https://github.com/juju4/ansible-ipv6/blob/predominant/duties/ipv6-disable.yml which you will discover helpful. If you happen to simply have to disable it quickly with out disruption (assuming you haven’t been utilizing ipv6 in any respect)

- title: Disable IPv6 with sysctl
  ansible.posix.sysctl:
    title: "{{ merchandise }}"
    worth: "1"
    state: "current"
    reload: "sure"
  with_items:
    - web.ipv6.conf.all.disable_ipv6
    - web.ipv6.conf.default.disable_ipv6
    - web.ipv6.conf.lo.disable_ipv6

If you happen to can tolerate a little bit of disruption, you might have considered trying to check out placing it on the community configuration and restarting it

- title: RedHat | disable ipv6 in sysconfig/community
  ansible.builtin.lineinfile:
    dest: /and so on/sysconfig/community
    regexp: "^{{ merchandise.regexp }}"
    line: "{{ merchandise.line }}"
    mode: '0644'
    backup: true
    create: true
  with_items:
    - { regexp: 'NETWORKING_IPV6=.*', line: 'NETWORKING_IPV6=NO' }
    - { regexp: 'IPV6INIT=.*', line: 'IPV6INIT=no' }
  notify:
    - Restart community
    - Restart NetworkManager
  when: ansible_os_family == 'RedHat'