From e509874dccda25cc95f40f36f070ad0101ce4df9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Jelmer=20Vernoo=C4=B3?= Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2023 23:20:15 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Add support for wireguard_include_peers variable --- README.md | 7 +++++++ templates/etc/wireguard/wg.conf.j2 | 4 +++- 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index a2e6894a..d01974dc 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -359,6 +359,13 @@ wireguard_unmanaged_peers: persistent_keepalive: 0 ``` +If present, the ``wireguard_include_peers`` setting restricts which peers (as hostnames) are included for a particular host. This can be useful when not all nodes can reach each other: + +```yaml +wireguard_include_peers: + - client.example.com +``` + One of `wireguard_address` (deprecated) or `wireguard_addresses` (recommended) is required as already mentioned. It's the IPs of the interface name defined with `wireguard_interface` variable (`wg0` by default). Every host needs at least one unique VPN IP of course. If you don't set `wireguard_endpoint` the playbook will use the hostname defined in the `vpn` hosts group (the Ansible inventory hostname). If you set `wireguard_endpoint` to `""` (empty string) that peer won't have a endpoint. That means that this host can only access hosts that have a `wireguard_endpoint`. That's useful for clients that don't expose any services to the VPN and only want to access services on other hosts. So if you only define one host with `wireguard_endpoint` set and all other hosts have `wireguard_endpoint` set to `""` (empty string) that basically means you've only clients besides one which in that case is the WireGuard server. The third possibility is to set `wireguard_endpoint` to some hostname. E.g. if you have different hostnames for the private and public DNS of that host and need different DNS entries for that case setting `wireguard_endpoint` becomes handy. Take for example the IP above: `wireguard_address: "10.8.0.101"`. That's a private IP and I've created a DNS entry for that private IP like `host01.i.domain.tld` (`i` for internal in that case). For the public IP I've created a DNS entry like `host01.p.domain.tld` (`p` for public). The `wireguard_endpoint` needs to be a interface that the other members in the `vpn` group can connect to. So in that case I would set `wireguard_endpoint` to `host01.p.domain.tld` because WireGuard normally needs to be able to connect to the public IP of the other host(s). Here is a litte example for what I use the playbook: I use WireGuard to setup a fully meshed VPN (every host can directly connect to every other host) and run my Kubernetes (K8s) cluster at Hetzner Cloud (but you should be able to use any hoster you want). So the important components like the K8s controller and worker nodes (which includes the pods) only communicate via encrypted WireGuard VPN. Also (as already mentioned) I've two clients. Both have `kubectl` installed and are able to talk to the internal Kubernetes API server by using WireGuard VPN. One of the two clients also exposes a WireGuard endpoint because the Postfix mailserver in the cloud and my internal Postfix needs to be able to talk to each other. I guess that's maybe a not so common use case for WireGuard :D But it shows what's possible. So let me explain the setup which might help you to use this Ansible role. diff --git a/templates/etc/wireguard/wg.conf.j2 b/templates/etc/wireguard/wg.conf.j2 index c7d2ee2f..d46c8d0b 100644 --- a/templates/etc/wireguard/wg.conf.j2 +++ b/templates/etc/wireguard/wg.conf.j2 @@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ PostDown = {{ wg_postdown }} SaveConfig = {{ wireguard_save_config }} {% endif %} {% for host in ansible_play_hosts %} -{% if host != inventory_hostname %} +{% if host != inventory_hostname and (wireguard_include_peers is not defined or host in wireguard_include_peers) %} [Peer] # Name = {{ host }} @@ -104,6 +104,7 @@ Endpoint = {{host}}:{{wireguard_port}} # Peers not managed by Ansible from "wireguard_unmanaged_peers" variable {% for peer in wireguard_unmanaged_peers.keys() %} +{% if wireguard_include_peers is not defined or peer in wireguard_include_peers %} [Peer] # Name = {{ peer }} PublicKey = {{ wireguard_unmanaged_peers[peer].public_key }} @@ -119,5 +120,6 @@ Endpoint = {{ wireguard_unmanaged_peers[peer].endpoint }} {% if wireguard_unmanaged_peers[peer].persistent_keepalive is defined %} PersistentKeepalive = {{ wireguard_unmanaged_peers[peer].persistent_keepalive }} {% endif %} +{% endif %} {% endfor %} {% endif %}