I'm not sure how many people have made the transition from iptables to
nftables.
I have just done so on one VPS, had a couple of minor hiccups on the way
but am very pleased with the result. Easy to do and the much more
human-readable and simplified syntax make it easy to read and maintain. I
particularly like the way that you just write one set of rules for ipv4 and
ipv6 and that as sets are built in it avoids all the problems involved in
making a table with sets reboot safe.
I was toying with doing a wiki page to share the experience and tips that I
picked up, but wiki syntax seems harder to fathom than nftables syntax. I
did a lot of googling on the issue but many of the How-To sites were either
contradictory, totally missing the new features (iptables rules translated
line by line and not taking advantage of new features), downright wrong or
rip-off copies of official documentation.
Keith