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This is a set of modules to allow you to configure pfSense firewalls with ansible.

NOTE: Changes with pfsensible.core 0.4.0

With pfsensible.core 0.4.0 we have stopped stripping the pfsense_ prefix from the module names. This caused conflicts with other modules (like the ansible core 'setup' module). You can use the 'collections' keyword in your playbooks and roles to simplify the module names instead.

Installation using ansible galaxy

Ansible Galaxy (as of version 2.9) now has an option for collections. A collection is a distribution format for delivering all type of Ansible content (not just roles as it was before). To install:

ansible-galaxy collection install pfsensible.core

Optionally, you can specify the path of the collection installation with the -p option.

ansible-galaxy collection install pfsensible.core -p ./collections

Additionally, you can set the collections_paths option in your ansible.cfg file to automatically designate install locations.

# ansible.cfg
[defaults]
collections_paths=collections

Configuration

Python discovery in ansible 2.9 and 2.10 will only detect Python up to version 3.7, ansible 2.11 will detect 3.8. If Python discovery fails, you can set ansible_python_interpreter in your playbook or hosts vars:

pfSense >= 2.5.2:

ansible_python_interpreter: /usr/local/bin/python3.8

pfSense >= 2.4.5, < 2.5.2:

ansible_python_interpreter: /usr/local/bin/python3.7

pfSense < 2.4.5:

ansible_python_interpreter: /usr/local/bin/python2.7

Modules must run as root in order to make changes to the system. By default pfSense does not have sudo capability so become will not work. You can install it with:

  - name: "Install packages"
    package:
      name:
        - pfSense-pkg-sudo
      state: present

and then configure sudo so that your user has permission to use sudo.

Modules

The following modules are currently available:

Bulk modules

These modules allow you to make important changes at once and, using the purge parameters, to keep the targets configuration strictly synchronized with your playbooks:

Third party modules

These modules allow you to manage installed packages:

Operation

Modules in the collection work by editing /cf/conf/config.xml using xml.etree.ElementTree, then calling the appropriate PHP update function via the pfSense PHP developer shell.

Some formatting is lost, and CDATA items are converted to normal entries, but so far no problems with that have been noted.

License

GPLv3.0 or later

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