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Old 5th July 2014
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Default How to deploy pf.conf to multiple machines?

I've got two machines for firewalling. It's good for redundancy but tedious in management:
- edit pf.conf on machine1
- pfctl -f pf.conf
- scp pf.conf machine2:/etc/
- ssh machine2 "pfctl -f /etc/pf.conf"

What software do openbsd folks use for config management?

I've heard good things about ansible but that requires python on the managed machine. I don't want to install any packages on the firewall.
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Take a look at rdist(1). Disclaimer: I've never used it. My firewalls do not have identical PF configurations, even though they use carp(4) for redundancy and pfsync(4) for failover. This is because they each provide a different mix of additional application services.

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What software do openbsd folks use for config management?
Puppet can be found in packages. I can't comment further on it as I don't use it.
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I don't want to install any packages on the firewall.
...which limits your configuration to "push"-style management. At that point, you could implement any number of schemes which would:
  • pull from some form of repository.
  • massage the files into their final form.
  • push to the endpoint firewalls via scp(1).
Puppet might be able to all of this itself. Personally, I do the repository portion using devel/git as the backend SCM database, but other tools or schemes could be used. I use Git as I want to keep an audit trail of what I have done & when. I also use Git for other things, so familiarity helped in the decision.
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