OpenWRT Provisioning / Infrastructure-as-code

OpennWisp

• Website
• Docs
• OpenVPN and Wigeguard support, still no Tailscale

Terraform

• joneshf/openwrt provider
  • Currently the only Terraform OpenWrt provider
  • Mostly Network/DHCP/Wireless resources

Ansible

• Galaxy OpenWrt collections/roles
  • General community collecttion modules
    • community.general.opkg
    • community.general.openwrt_init
  • imp1sh/ansible_openwrt collecttion
    • Docs
    • Actively maintained
    • Needs Python
    • Minimal requirements: 128 MB Storage, 128+ MB RAM (for Restic 512+ MB)
  • gekmihesg/ansible-openwrt role
    • Most popular role, development stalled since 2022-12
    • No Python needed
  • NN708/ansible-openwrt collection
    • No Python needed
    • no opkg support
    • Few resources

Install python:

opkg install python3-light