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Aerleon Overview

Aerleon is a lightweight library which generates firewall configurations from a normalized data model. Users of the library provide their intention in the form of data (which can be expressed in several ways) and the library generates configuration.

Description

Aerleon provides a per firewall platform configuration generator. It loads data in a single standard format and generates a configuration for each target platform.

The data primarily consists of:

  • Policy Files that represent the actual firewall rules.
  • Address Files that represent the addresses, in the form of named objects.
  • Service Files that represent the services, in the form of named objects.

Supported Configuration Formats

  • Legacy Capirca formats
  • YAML
  • Native Python

Core Supported Generators

  • Arista
  • Aruba
  • Brocade
  • Cisco
    • Cisco ASA
    • Cisco NX
    • Cisco XR
  • Google
    • Cloud Armor
    • GCE
    • GCP
  • IPSet
  • IPTables
  • Juniper
    • JuniperSRX
    • Juniper EVO
    • Juniper MPC
  • Kubernetes
  • NFTables
  • VMWare NSXV
  • Packet Filter
  • Palo Alto
  • PCAP Filters
  • Windows
    • Advanced Firewall
    • IPSec

Audience (User Personas)

  • Anyone who is managing firewall configurations.
  • Anyone who wants to manage configurations using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) concepts.
  • Anyone who wants to manage a multi-firewall configuration in a single normalized manner.

Authors and Maintainers