django-netjsonconfig 0.4.2

Configuration manager for embedded devices, implemented as a reusable django-app

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Configuration manager for embedded devices, implemented as a reusable django-app.

Based on the NetJSON format and the netjsonconfig library.

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Table of Contents:

• Current features

• Project goals

• Dependencies

• Install stable version from pypi

• Install development version

• Setup (integrate in an existing django project)

• Deploy it in production

• Installing for development

• Settings

  • NETJSONCONFIG_BACKENDS

  • NETJSONCONFIG_VPN_BACKENDS

  • NETJSONCONFIG_DEFAULT_BACKEND

  • NETJSONCONFIG_DEFAULT_VPN_BACKEND

  • NETJSONCONFIG_REGISTRATION_ENABLED

  • NETJSONCONFIG_CONSISTENT_REGISTRATION

  • NETJSONCONFIG_SHARED_SECRET

  • NETJSONCONFIG_CONTEXT

  • NETJSONCONFIG_DEFAULT_AUTO_CERT

  • NETJSONCONFIG_CERT_PATH

  • NETJSONCONFIG_COMMON_NAME_FORMAT

• Screenshots

• Contributing

• Changelog

• License

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Current features

• configuration management for embedded devices supporting different firmwares:

  • OpenWRT

  • OpenWISP Firmware

  • support for additional firmware can be added by specifying custom backends

• configuration editor based on JSON-Schema editor

• advanced edit mode: edit NetJSON DeviceConfiguration objects for maximum flexibility

• configuration templates: reduce repetition to the minimum

• configuration context: reference ansible-like variables in the configuration

• simple HTTP resources: allow devices to automatically download configuration updates

• VPN management: easily create VPN servers and clients

Project goals

• automate configuration management for embedded devices

• allow to minimize repetition by using templates

• make it easy to integrate in larger django projects to improve reusability

• make it easy to extend its models by providing abstract models

• provide ways to support more firmwares by adding custom backends

• keep the core as simple as possible

• provide ways to extend the default behaviour

• encourage new features to be published as extensions

Dependencies

• Python 2.7 or Python >= 3.4

• OpenSSL

Install stable version from pypi

Install from pypi:

pip install django-netjsonconfig

Install development version

Install tarball:

pip install https://github.com/openwisp/django-netjsonconfig/tarball/master

Alternatively you can install via pip using git:

pip install -e git+git://github.com/openwisp/django-netjsonconfig#egg=django-netjsonconfig

If you want to contribute, install your cloned fork:

git clone [e-mail]:<your_fork>/django-netjsonconfig.git
cd django-netjsonconfig
python setup.py develop

Setup (integrate in an existing django project)

Add django_netjsonconfig, django.contrib.admin, sortedm2m and reversion to INSTALLED_APPS in the following order:

INSTALLED_APPS = [
    # other apps
    'django_netjsonconfig',
    # ensure the django admin comes after django-netjsonconfig
    'django.contrib.admin',
    'sortedm2m',
    'reversion'  # optional, can be removed if not needed
    # ...
]

Add the controller URLs to your main urls.py:

urlpatterns = [
    # ... other urls in your project ...

    # controller URLs
    # used by devices to download/update their configuration
    # keep the namespace argument unchanged
    url(r'^', include('django_netjsonconfig.controller.urls', namespace='controller')),
    # common URLs
    # shared among django-netjsonconfig components
    # keep the namespace argument unchanged
    url(r'^', include('django_netjsonconfig.urls', namespace='netjsonconfig')),
]

Then run:

./manage.py migrate

Deploy it in production

If you need to deploy django-netjsonconfig by itself (that is without including it in a larger project), you may want to check out the ansible-openwisp2 role.

Installing for development

Install sqlite:

sudo apt-get install sqlite3 libsqlite3-dev openssl libssl-dev

Install your forked repo:

git clone git://github.com/<your_fork>/django-netjsonconfig
cd django-netjsonconfig/
python setup.py develop

Install test requirements:

pip install -r requirements-test.txt

Create database:

cd tests/
./manage.py migrate
./manage.py createsuperuser

Launch development server:

./manage.py runserver

You can access the admin interface at http://127.0.0.1:8000/admin/.

Run tests with:

./runtests.py

Settings

NETJSONCONFIG_BACKENDS

type:	tuple
default:	( ('netjsonconfig.OpenWrt', 'OpenWRT'), ('netjsonconfig.OpenWisp', 'OpenWISP'), )

Available configuration backends. For more information, see netjsonconfig backends.

NETJSONCONFIG_VPN_BACKENDS

type:	tuple
default:	( ('django_netjsonconfig.vpn_backends.OpenVpn', 'OpenVPN'), )

Available VPN backends for VPN Server objects. For more information, see OpenVPN netjsonconfig backend.

A VPN backend must follow some basic rules in order to be compatible with django-netjsonconfig:

• it MUST allow at minimum and at maximum one VPN instance

• the main NetJSON property MUST match the lowercase version of the class name, eg: when using the OpenVpn backend, the system will look into config['openvpn']

• it SHOULD focus on the server capabilities of the VPN software being used

NETJSONCONFIG_DEFAULT_BACKEND

type:	str
default:	NETJSONCONFIG_BACKENDS[0][0]

The preferred backend that will be used as initial value when adding new Config or Template objects in the admin.

This setting defaults to the raw value of the first item in the NETJSONCONFIG_BACKENDS setting, which is netjsonconfig.OpenWrt.

Setting it to None will force the user to choose explicitly.

NETJSONCONFIG_DEFAULT_VPN_BACKEND

type:	str
default:	NETJSONCONFIG_VPN_BACKENDS[0][0]

The preferred backend that will be used as initial value when adding new Vpn objects in the admin.

This setting defaults to the raw value of the first item in the NETJSONCONFIG_VPN_BACKENDS setting, which is django_netjsonconfig.vpn_backends.OpenVpn.

Setting it to None will force the user to choose explicitly.

NETJSONCONFIG_REGISTRATION_ENABLED

type:	bool
default:	True

Whether devices can automatically register through the controller or not.

This feature is enabled by default.

Autoregistration must be supported on the devices in order to work, see openwisp-config automatic registration for more information.

NETJSONCONFIG_CONSISTENT_REGISTRATION

type:	bool
default:	True

Whether devices that are already registered are recognized when reflashed or reset, hence keeping the existing configuration without creating a new one.

This feature is enabled by default.

Autoregistration must be enabled also on the devices in order to work, see openwisp-config consistent key generation for more information.

NETJSONCONFIG_SHARED_SECRET

type:	str
default:	""

A secret key which must be used by devices to perform automatic registration.

This key MUST be explicitly set in production (if settings.DEBUG is False), otherwise an ImproperlyConfigured exception will be raised on startup.

NETJSONCONFIG_CONTEXT

type:	dict
default:	{}

Additional context that is passed to the default context of each Config object.

Each Config object gets the following attributes passed as configuration variables:

• id

• key

• name

• mac_address

NETJSONCONFIG_CONTEXT can be used to define system-wide configuration variables.

For more information, see netjsonconfig context: configuration variables.

NETJSONCONFIG_DEFAULT_AUTO_CERT

type:	bool
default:	True

The default value of the auto_cert field for new Template objects.

The auto_cert field is valid only for templates which have type set to VPN and indicates whether a new x509 certificate should be created automatically for each configuration using that template.

The automatically created certificates will also be removed when they are not needed anymore (eg: when the VPN template is removed from a configuration object).

NETJSONCONFIG_CERT_PATH

type:	str
default:	/etc/x509

The filesystem path where x509 certificate will be installed when downloaded on routers when auto_cert is being used (enabled by default).

NETJSONCONFIG_COMMON_NAME_FORMAT

type:	str
default:	{mac_address}-{name}

Defines the format of the common_name attribute of VPN client certificates that are automatically created when using VPN templates which have auto_cert set to True.

Screenshots

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Contributing

1. Announce your intentions in the OpenWISP Mailing List

2. Fork this repo and install it

3. Follow PEP8, Style Guide for Python Code

4. Write code

5. Write tests for your code

6. Ensure all tests pass

7. Ensure test coverage does not decrease

8. Document your changes

9. Send pull request

Changelog

See CHANGES.

License

See LICENSE.