automating FreeNAS config using ansible/puppet/chef

[Tobias Florek]

hi,

is anyone using a configuration tool to manage freenas servers?

for now, i'd like to centrally manage the exported things, etc. is this (more-or-less) easily possible using the ssh command line?

thank you for your help.

 

[jag3773]

I would love this same ability. Here are some thoughts I have on implementing it:
1) Possibly create a FreeNAS Plugin that installs Puppet and allows the user to specify the puppet server via the GUI, or
2) Just make the root filesystem writable and install puppet manually, configure manually and then change / back to read only.

I think option 1 would be ideal, but I haven't looked into the plugin architecture enough to know if that would work acceptably.

 

[Tobias Florek]

but then you are forced to use puppet. what i am really asking is, whether there are some command line tools to configure freenas. if so configuration management tool plugins will be easy to write.

a puppet running on freenas should be an easy thing then.

 

[jag3773]

For ZFS related operations, you can use all the normal ZFS commands that you would on the CLI and FreeNAS will recognize most of your changes. I'm not sure if there is an easy CLI way to manage other aspects of the config, like creating an SMB/CIFS share sort of thing.

 

[6uellerbpanda]

well a little bit late but if somebody is interested ansible has a zfs module which can do some zfs operations
here is some short example how to do it with freenas 9.10