Automate Your Routers: Provisioning OpenWrt Devices with Ansible

Tired of manually configuring your OpenWrt devices? Discover how Ansible transforms device management from a chore into a one-command breeze!

What we'll learn

This interactive hands-on workshop will guide you through:

• Installing the OpenWrt collection

• Organizing your inventory

• Abstracting to a 'router' role

• Separating the inventory from the playbook

• Deploying common configs across multiple devices

• Re-using variable and templates

• Best practices and troubleshooting

We'll have a chance to dive in and tackle real OpenWrt setup tasks like configuring:

• cron

• ddns

• dhcp

• dropbear

• etherwake

• extroot

• files

• firewall

• fstab

• irqbalance

• mini_snmpd

• mwan3

• network

• openvpn

• packages

• services

• siproxd

• snmpd

• sqm

• system

• users

• watchcat

• wireless

Who should attend?

• Anyone with basic familiarity with Ansible or OpenWrt

• Tinkerers, sysadmins, and network enthusiasts looking to automate and scale OpenWrt deployments with Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

Bring your laptop (and an OpenWrt-compatible device if you want to play along)!