Managing DHCP Leases

[ajtatum]

I apologize if this is a dumb question. I'm just starting to learn Ansible and the world of automation possibilities there are out there.

One somewhat tedious task for me is whenever I create a new LXC or VM in Proxmox, I like to assign it an IP address with a Proxmox MAC address and the host name.

I'm not entirely sure if this is possible, but in my head I'm imagining that I could create a playbook where I supply the host name and it would generate a random MAC address for whatever I'm creating and then pass those variables into OPNsense and once it's finished it would go back to Proxmox and build the LXC/VM.

I hope that makes sense.

Thanks,
AJ

[ansibleguy]

Greetings!

This should be doable WHEN OPNSense supports managing the DHCP-leases using an API.

Currently this is not yet possible. So we cannot implement this functionality as Ansible module.

I created a feature-request at the OPNSense repo - opnsense/core#7108

Also related to: #35 and #14 (comment)

[ansibleguy]

It seems the new/full DHCP API should become available in the next few months. After that I will implement it as Ansible modules.

[ansibleguy]

You can follow/watch this feature-request #45 for updates on this subject

[ajtatum]

Awesome! Thank you!