Implement a NetworkManager provider using nmstate

[silug]

Pull Request (PR) description

Implement a NetworkManager provider using nmstate

Also adds beaker tests.

This Pull Request (PR) fixes the following issues

• Fixes Add support for RHEL9 #328
• Fixes RHEL switch to networkmanager instead of network scripts #338

[bastelfreak]

@rwaffen recently started a network manager module: https://github.com/voxpupuli/puppet-networkmanager

[bastelfreak]

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[silug]

Sorry, that's Copilot cruft. I'll clean it up before I submit this for real.

[silug]

@rwaffen recently started a network manager module: https://github.com/voxpupuli/puppet-networkmanager

@bastelfreak I'm not sure what to do with this information. 😁

I still like the idea of having a theoretically generic module for handling network configuration that can work correctly with multiple back-end providers. That's why I've been using this module for ages.

[pedmon]

Just +1 ing this as we are starting to integrate Rocky 9 and need this to be updated so that we can properly define routes.

[bwitt]

This looks very useful; I would love to see it get merged!

[bwitt]

maybe I can help test on Ubuntu? that's where I'd like to use this

[silug]

@bwitt @pedmon This is still very much a work in progress, but you are welcome to give it a try (on a test system please!) and let me know how it goes. I'll get back to working on this soon.

[bwitt]

thanks but I'm hitting #77 when trying to use this module at all

[bwitt]

ok running puppet generate types fixes #77 but I have a config in hiera, and it does not seem to be doing anything. I'm trying to configure a DHCP and a static connection, both using the same wired config

network_config:
  'Wired connection 1':
    ensure: present
    provider: nm
    family: inet
    method: static
    ipaddress: 'xxxx'
    netmask: '255.255.255.0'
    gateway: 'xxxxx'
    onboot: true
  'Wired connection 2':
    ensure: present
    provider: nm
    family: inet
    method: dhcp
    onboot: false
    hotplug: true

[bwitt]

on what Ubuntu or Debian versions does this work?

[bwitt]

solved my other problem, but now it appears I cannot apt install nmstate on Ubuntu 22.04 so I am blocked by that