how would one go about building an admin frontend?

[John Accoun]

> Why not use an existing solution (e.g. puppet et al)? The capability is
already there,

No. It's not. Notice that I did mention that the devices would call a
server to register themselves. In fact, the whole problem I am trying to
solve is providing connectivity to peers behind NATs and connected from
unknown locations. Being able to just ssh'ing into a peer is the end goal
itself, not the starting point.

But let's please not get off topic. I think I was clear in what I asked.



On Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 12:17 PM Steve Gilberd <steve at erayd.net> wrote:

> Why not use an existing solution (e.g. puppet et al)? The capability is
> already there, unless you need a GUI.
>
> Cheers,
> Steve
>
> On Fri, 11 Jan 2019, 21:09 John Accoun, <jsonacc at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I need to provision a large number of linux devices on multiple locations
>> and put them all on a VPN.
>> Configuring each device manually is too tedious. I was thinking of
>> spinning up a server with a small HTTP api to exchange keys and configure
>> wireguard on both sides. Then each device would call this server to
>> register itself. And while I am a it I thought I could throw together a
>> minimal admin ui that I could use for example to manually remove peers.
>>
>> I red the 'Web App provisioning Server' which I believe describes a
>> possible solution for this use case. But I am confused with the whole data
>> storage thing. Where do configuarations live? Are the configuration files
>> at /etc/whireguard/ the source of truth? If I edit these when is the list
>> of peers refreshed?
>>
>> The above mentioned document suggests shelling out to command line tools.
>> Is this the recommended way. Does a general purpose library for managing
>> wireguard config exist?
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