Generate firewall configs for multiple firewall platforms from a single platform-agnostic configuration language through a command line tool and Python API.
Aerleon is a fork of Capirca with the following major additions:
- YAML policy and network definition files and pol2yaml, a converter from Capirca policy DSL to YAML.
- Network definitions with FQDN data.
- New firewall platforms can be added through plugins.
- Typed Python APIs for ACL generation and aclcheck queries.
- A SLSA-compatible verifiable release process.
- A detailed regression test suite.
- Many bug fixes and performance enhancements.
Aerleon requires Python 3.8 or higher.
pip install aerleonTo install via brew:
brew install aerleonAerleon provides a command line tool and a Python API that will generate configs for multiple firewall platforms from a single platform-agnostic configuration language. It can generate configs for Cisco, Juniper, Palo Alto Networks and many other firewall vendors.
A getting started guide walking through the basics of using Aerleon is available on the docs website.
Documentation can be found at https://aerleon.readthedocs.io/en/latest/.
Contributions are welcome. Please review the contributing guidelines and code of conduct for this project.
Official channels for communicating issues is via Github Issues.
General discussions can be had either in Github Discussions or in our Slack Server.
You can always reach out to us on Slack. You many also reach out to us via e-mail.
Rob Ankeny ([email protected])
Jason Benterou ([email protected])
- Brief Overview (4 slides):
- Nanog49; Enterprise QoS
- Blog Post: Safe ACL Change through Model-based Analysis
- Aerleon Slack
- #aerleon at NetworkToCode Slack
Thanks goes to these wonderful people (emoji key):
Ken Celenza 📖 |
Axel F 📖 |
Brandon Bennett 💻 |
Bastian Triller 💻 |
Arzhel Younsi 💻 |
This project follows the all-contributors specification. Contributions of any kind welcome!
Files and code included in this project from Capirca are copyright Google and are included under the terms of the Apache License, Version 2.0. You may obtain a copy of the License at
https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
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