Ansible doesn't require or need python on targets. In fact it's one of it's biggest selling points and why over a 3rd of modules are network device centric.
There is a UCI module for openwrt: https://github.com/lefant/ansible-openwrt-uci I tend to redeploy images/snapshots to VM's and then run opkg via ansible or scripts and copy over config files. -Joel On Thu, 9 Apr 2020 at 09:08, Paul Spooren <m...@aparcar.org> wrote: > Hi all, > > I was wondering if there are some best practices for configuration > management of OpenWrt devices. I understand that it is fairly easy to > get/restore a backup of the etc/config folder, but though maybe there > are some smarter ways. > > Ideally a local state (e.g. git repository) would deploy multiple > devices and automatically update them via a command (or even cron). > > Other projects came up with solutions which seem to heavy for common > WiFi routers. Ansible[0] is great and all, however requires plenty of > Python to work conveniently. Then cloud-init[1] is Python as well, I > think even heavier on the client side than Ansible and also doesn't > seem to be the right use case. > > Some time ago I came up with a MAC based init system[2] but that's not > really to keep things up to date. > > Last thing I know of is the approach to convert folders into opkg > install-able packages[3], so whenever there is a new configuration all > pre-configured routers would install it via opkg. However this would > require an opkg cron on client device and building the config-packages > appear to be quite some overhead. On the other side it handles > authentication via usign keys. > > Anyway, please recommend me a better way which I'm not aware of! > > Best, > Paul > > [0]: https://www.ansible.com/ > [1]: https://cloud-init.io/ > [2]: https://github.com/openwrt/packages/pull/6071 > [3]: https://github.com/libremesh/network-profiles-builder > > > _______________________________________________ > openwrt-devel mailing list > openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org > https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel >
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