vm-ansible/roles/openvpn/tasks/main.yaml

---
- name: "Install openvpn-server via apt"
  apt:
    update_cache: yes
    state: present
    name:
     - openvpn

- name : "Enable ipv4 forwarding via sysctl"
  ansible.posix.sysctl:
    name: net.ipv4.ip_forward
    value: '1'
    sysctl_set: yes
    state: present
    reload: yes

- name: Enable and restart openvpn daemon
  service:
    name: openvpn-server@stargate
    state: restarted
    enabled: yes

- name: Check if AllowUsers is defined
  lineinfile:
    state: absent
    path: /etc/ufw/before.rules
    regexp: "^# START OPENVPN"
  check_mode: true
  changed_when: false
  register: checkufwrules

- name: Insert openvpn iptables rules
  blockinfile:
    path: /etc/ufw/before.rules
    block: |
      # START OPENVPN RULES
      # NAT table rules
      *nat
      -F
      :POSTROUTING ACCEPT [0:0]
      # Allow traffic from OpenVPN client to everywhere
      -A POSTROUTING -s 192.168.37.0/24 -o eth0 -j MASQUERADE
      -A POSTROUTING -s 192.168.37.0/24 -o eth2 -j MASQUERADE
      COMMIT
      *filter
      -A ufw-before-input -i tun+ -j ACCEPT
      -A ufw-before-forward -i tun+ -j ACCEPT
      -A ufw-before-forward -i tun+ -o eth0 -m state --state RELATED,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT
      -A ufw-before-forward -i eth0 -o tun+ -m state --state RELATED,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT
      -A ufw-before-forward -i tun+ -o eth2 -m state --state RELATED,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT
      -A ufw-before-forward -i eth2 -o tun+ -m state --state RELATED,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT
      COMMIT
      # END OPENVPN RULES

- name: Reload ufw
  community.general.ufw:
    state: reloaded

- name: Apply custom ufw rules
  community.general.ufw:
    rule: allow
    direction: "in"
    interface: tun0
...