modules for NetworkManager

[Tim Mooney]

Hi All-

How are people using puppet to manage their interfaces and routes with
NetWorkManager?

With the advent of RHEL 9, Red Hat has removed the ability to define
network config using the old flat file method. It had been deprecated
for a couple of major versions, but it's fully removed in RHEL 9.
NetworkManager is the only option now.

I've looked on the Forge and I haven't found a popular, supported module
for managing network config via NetworkManager. Is there a consensus
favorite that I've missed? If not, what are people doing to manage
the network on RHEL 9?

Thanks,

Tim
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[Dirk Heinrichs]

Am Dienstag, dem 26.07.2022 um 14:31 -0500 schrieb 'Tim Mooney' via Puppet Users:

If not, what are people doing to manage the network on RHEL 9?

I've always found NM to be of most value on Laptops, where I need to be able to connect to different (WiFi) networks or VPNs every now and then. However, for everything with a "static" (as in "always in the same network") connection, I use systemd-networkd, which can be easily managed through text files.

BTW: Both, NM and systemd-networkd, can be managed with Netplan, which uses simple YAML files for configuration.

HTH...

Dirk

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[Dietrich, Stefan]

Hello,

> With the advent of RHEL 9, Red Hat has removed the ability to define
> network config using the old flat file method. It had been deprecated
> for a couple of major versions, but it's fully removed in RHEL 9.
> NetworkManager is the only option now.

according to the documentation, the old flat file method of ifcfg is still available.
However the default has been switched from ifcfg to NetworkManager format:
https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/9/html-single/considerations_in_adopting_rhel_9/index#ref_networkmanager-networking_assembly_networking

> I've looked on the Forge and I haven't found a popular, supported module
> for managing network config via NetworkManager. Is there a consensus
> favorite that I've missed? If not, what are people doing to manage
> the network on RHEL 9?

Same here, I have not yet really decided how to handle this.
Either continue to use the old ifcfg format, write a simple module for handling NM or use netplan.
For netplan there is a module available on Forge. This would also allow to have a unified configuration across Ubuntu, Debian and EL-family.

Regards,
Stefan

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