insignit/pyappliancecfg

python script to manage a virtual appliance

pyappliancecfg

This will help you configure simple network settings for an appliance / vm

This is a fork with parents:

• https://github.com/pasqumirk/pydialog-interfaces
• https://github.com/pragbits/pydialog-interfaces

Changes:

• Added parsers to get current ip, mask and gateway (borrowed from saltstack)
• added py3 support
• Removed ifconfig calls
• changed some formatting
• added options to set ntp settings
• added docker file to build with
• added option to embed secondary configuration ui

requirements

• apt install dialog if not already
• those in the requirements.txt (python3 -m pip install -r requirements.txt)

building

will result in an executable appliancecfg and some so files

docker build -t pyappliancecfg . docker run -ti --name pyappliancecfg pyappliancecfg bash

open second terminal docker cp pyappliancecfg:/pyappliancecfg/appliancecfg.dist/appliancecfg.tar.gz $PWD/ docker rm -f pyappliancecfg

running

./appliancecfg --external_config someexecutable --external_config_name MyConfigurator --external_config_desc 'Configure other cool stuff'