Managing pfSense large deployments - pfCenter SaltStack

communig8

Hello all (if there is a more appropriate place to put this post, please let me know).

I'm manually managing 25 pfSense servers at geographically disperse locations and this is starting to become very time consuming.
This number is likely to double very soon and will only continue to grow. So I'm looking for a better way.

I've read posts about pfCenter, which looks to be a great concept but only seems to be a concept (unless you can tell me different).

I'd like to use SaltStack (although the web site does seem to be a little overloaded with Marketing Speak).

So the two questions are;

Is pfCentre really going to happen?
Is anyone using SaltStck to manage pfSense?

Thanks, Richard

BBcan177

https://blog.pfsense.org/?p=1588

communig8

@BBcan177:

https://blog.pfsense.org/?p=1588

Thanks but I'd already seen that which provoked the questions in the first place.

KOM

Is pfCentre really going to happen?

Maybe, but if it does I would bet on it being 2 years away at least.

Is anyone using SaltStck to manage pfSense?

Not me.

communig8

I guess SaltStack and the like non-starters until the REST API with pfSense 3.0

martintamare

Very old topic, but we use salt to manage our pfsense ;)
Thanks to https://github.com/ndejong/pfsense_fauxapi

Some links :

https://github.com/ndejong/pfsense_fauxapi_client_python
https://github.com/alkivi-sas/salt-pfsense