coexistence between nftables and iptables ?

[PierluigiFrullani <pierluigi.frullani@frumar.it>]

Hello all,
 first post here so please be indulgent.
I was wandering if I those two "technologies" can coexist. 
My problem is: I have a small machine that does firewalling for my home net, and on this machine there is also a docker environment. 
Docker use iptables for his internal stuff and for forwarding traffic between host ( and his net ) and dockers themselves. It does this by creating a quite complex number of rules and tables, which btw are handled by docker daemon  and scripts.

So far so good you might say. Well... no.
being that also my iptables rules are quite comples I used, when in need of modify them in some way, to flush all iptables and start all over again.
This will flush also all other docker rules so that the docker environment does not work anymore unless I stop and restart the daemon ( which obviously is not always acceptable ).

If I can use nftables for my firewalling and routing needs, and leave iptables only for docker, then I can flush my nftables whenever I want, without impacting docker environment.

Is that true ?
Is that possible ?


Thanks in advance and sorry for my poor english.

Pierluigi ( from Italy )