PAN-OS Bootstrapper Utility

Contents:

• Quickstart
  • Docker
  • Standalone
• Bootstrap on Amazon Web Services
  • Creating an AWS Access Key
  • Next Steps
• Bootstrap on Microsoft Azure
  • Finding your Access Key
  • Next Steps
• Bootstrap on Google Cloud Platform
  • Finding your Project Id
  • Granting an OAuth Token API Access
  • Next Steps
• Bootstrap on Linux KVM
  • More Information
• Bootstrap on Openstack
  • Example Instance Creation
  • Bootstrapping with the Openstack Horizon UI
  • More Information
• Bootstrap on VMWare ESXi
  • More Information
• Using the API
  • Generate a minimal Bootstrap Archive
  • Controlling the output format
  • Using JSON Input
  • List available templates
  • List Init-Cfg Templates
  • Show the contents of a template
  • To show required variables in a set of templates
  • Building a bootstrap package
  • Building a Bootstrap Package with a custom bootstrap.xml
• Using the bootstrapper-cli
• Testing
  • Executing Tests
  • Example test output

About

The PAN-OS bootstrapper Utility is a tool to simplify the process of building bootstrap packages for Palo Alto Networks Next-Gen Firewalls.

Complete documentation on the Palo Alto Networks NGFW bootstrapping process can be found here.

An example web application is hosted on GitHub as the panos-bootstrapper-ui.

Architecture

This utility is provided as a micro-service that provides a simple API. It is expected that another application will consume this API for presentation to the user.

Contributing

Feel free to contribute templates, bug fixes, examples, documentation updates, etc to the GitHub repository. For simple contributions, opening an issue on GitHub is the preferred method. For more complex additions such as bugfixes, fork the project, commit your changes and open a Pull Request. Questions can be posed to the #automation-bof channel in the PaloAltoNetworks slack channel.

Indices and tables

• Index

• Module Index

• Search Page