This repo is a quick start way to begin configuration management with Ansible of FreeBSD on Ubiquiti EdgeRouter Lite (ERL), assuming these:

• Ansible is installed on your local machine.
• On ERL:
  • You used freebsd-ERL-build to build OS image installed on ERL. You can use freebsd-edgerouterlite-ansible to spin up a Vagrant environment to build the OS image.
  • root user has no password set.
  • A user called ubnt exists.
  • Network and remote access through SSH on eth2 (octe2) is working.
• Network
  • IPv4 and IPv6 are functioning and desired at the edge of the network (cable modem in my case).
  • You want to override the MAC address of eth0 (octe0) to something else. I wanted to do it so I could swap in multiple gateway devices without needing to contact my service provider.
  • You want to use the default network config from freebsd-ERL-build.

Configure SSH client config on your local machine. Add this to ~/.ssh/config. Modify as needed.

Host erl-admin
    HostName 192.168.2.1
    Port 22
    User ubnt
    AddressFamily inet
    CheckHostIP no
    StrictHostKeyChecking no
    UserKnownHostsFile /dev/null

Since I rebuild ERL many times I use highly insecure SSH settings. You may want to use more secure settings for CheckHostIP, StrictHostKeyChecking, and UserKnownHostsFile, especially when using production boxes.

Copy SSH key to remote machine.

$ ssh-copy-id -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa erl-admin

Review my settings in ansible.cfg and hosts files in this repo. Edit them as desired.

pkgng is already bootstrapped during OS image build. Installing Python 2.7 is required before the playbook can run. This is done outside of a playbook because I like it that way. I have not tried running this in a playbook.

Install Python2.7.

$ ansible --module-name raw --args "/usr/sbin/pkg install -y python27" --become --become-method=su erl-admin

Look at the example playbook and modify vars as needed before running it.

$ ansible-playbook play-example.yml

If your assumptions are different from mine then read all the templates in various roles and modify them as desired.