Ansible ufw module ERROR: Could not find a profile matching 'xxxxx' - ansible

Question

I'm working to setup UFW rules via Ansible. I'm able to get it installed, start it and deny everything. I then attempt to allow connections from http, https, and ssh. All attempts to add the allow for those items are met with errors that look like:
failed: [lempy1] (item={u'service': u'http'}) => {"failed": true, "item": {"service": "http"}, "msg": "ERROR: Could not find a profile matching 'http'\n"}
failed: [lempy1] (item={u'service': u'https'}) => {"failed": true, "item": {"service": "https"}, "msg": "ERROR: Could not find a profile matching 'https'\n"}
failed: [lempy1] (item={u'service': u'ssh'}) => {"failed": true, "item": {"service": "ssh"}, "msg": "ERROR: Could not find a profile matching 'ssh'\n"}
The entire role looks like this:
tasks/main.yml
---
- name: Install ufw
apt: name=ufw state=present
tags:
- security
- name: Allow webservery things
ufw:
rule: allow
name: '{{item.service}}'
with_items:
- service: http
- service: https
- service: ssh
tags:
- security
- name: Start ufw
ufw: state=enabled policy=deny
tags:
- security
Any idea why I wouldn't be able to allow these services? I am able to add the services properly when ssh'ing into the server and running sudo ufw allow http, etc.

Answer 1

As mentioned in the ufw module docs, the name (or app) parameter uses applications that are registered in /etc/ufw/applications.d which have an INI format and look something like this:
[CUPS]
title=Common UNIX Printing System server
description=CUPS is a printing system with support for IPP, samba, lpd, and other protocols.
ports=631
Normally you can use ufw allow application-profile to allow an application defined either in /etc/ufw/applications.d or /etc/services to open up iptables for things that aren't necessarily defined in /etc/ufw/applications.d.
Unfortunately, Ansible's ufw module instead builds the ufw command in this format instead:
/usr/sbin/ufw allow from any to any app 'application-profile'
Which only uses the /etc/ufw/applications.d list and won't read /etc/services.
In your case you could simply specify the ports as these are well known, potentially using a named variable to further explain your Ansible code:
- name: Allow webservery things
ufw:
rule: allow
port: '{{ item }}'
with_items:
- '{{ http_port }}'
- '{{ https_port }}'
- '{{ ssh_port }}'
tags:
- security
And then define the variables somewhere (such as your role defaults):
http_port: 80
https_port: 443
ssh_port: 22
As an aside, you might want to notice that I simplified your list of dictionaries with a single key into a simpler straight list which tidies up your task a bit.
Alternatively you could easily template the application profiles using Ansible's template module.