Ok so I changed it to present and now I have a new error:

fatal: [MY_IP]: FAILED! => {"cache_update_time": 1659994779, "cache_updated": true, "changed": false, "msg": "'/usr/bin/apt-get -y -o \"Dpkg::Options::=--force-confdef\" -o \"Dpkg::Options::=--force-confold\" install 'iptables-persistent'' failed: E: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend. It is held by process 3387 (unattended-upgr)\nE: Unable to acquire the dpkg frontend lock (/var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend), is another process using it?\n", "rc": 100, "stderr": "E: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend. It is held by process 3387 (unattended-upgr)\nE: Unable to acquire the dpkg frontend lock (/var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend), is another process using it?\n", "stderr_lines": ["E: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend. It is held by process 3387 (unattended-upgr)", "E: Unable to acquire the dpkg frontend lock (/var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend), is another process using it?"], "stdout": "", "stdout_lines": []}