I’ve been building this provider for (web managed) network switches manufactured by HRUI. These switches often used in SMBs, home labs, and by budget-conscious enthusiasts. Many HRUI switches are also rebranded and sold under various OEM/ODM names (eg. Horaco, XikeStor, keepLiNK, Sodola, etc) making them accessible/popular but often overlooked in the world of infrastructure automation.
The provider is in pre-release, and I’m looking for owners of these switches to test it and share feedback. My goal is to make it easier to automate its config using Terraform/OpenTofu :)
You can use this provider to configure VLANs, port settings, trunk/link aggregation etc.
I built this provider to address the lack of automation tools for budget-friendly hardware. It leverage goquery and has an internal SDK sitting between the Terraform resources and the switch Web UI.
If you have one of these switches, I’d love for you to give it a try and let me know how it works for you!
Terraform Registry: https://registry.terraform.io/providers/brennoo/hrui
OpenTofu Provider: https://search.opentofu.org/provider/brennoo/hrui
1) the internal sdk client does not respect golang's context so will not terminate gracefully, most tf providers fail to respect golang context, so this is not out of the ordinary.
2) thank you for not saving environment credentials to state, 99% of tf providers fuck this up.
The newer hardware is even better, but I have the compact desktop version of this 24-port MikroTik switch: https://www.servethehome.com/mikrotik-css326-24g-2srm-review...
As well as this Wifi 6 AP: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICrDw8_PZ3o
They recently released a small 10G ethernet switch that looks seriously good: https://www.servethehome.com/mikrotik-crs304-4xg-in-review-t...
If I had to do my network all over again, I'd probably get either the MikroTik L009UiGS-2HaxD or RB5009UG+S+IN: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIxkkNxsEhs
Side Notes
- The Terraform provider for RouterOS is actively developed: https://github.com/terraform-routeros/terraform-provider-rou...
- If you want Linux without actually needing to poke at the underlying OS, then you might also be interested in Palo Alto NGFW products running PAN-OS. Terraform is also an option: https://github.com/PaloAltoNetworks/terraform-provider-panos
- The one area I found RouterOS majorly lacking was IPv6 support, which is provided as a separate plugin/package. My ISP doesn't support IPv6, so this did not make any difference for me.
- The best IPv6 support in a network product advertizing a unix-like OS is OPNsense / PFSense, but those are routers and not switch hardware. Terraform providers are also available for these.
The one you linked unfortunately only runs SwOS, which is really not very good.
However, current versions of RouterOS (i.e., any 7.x version) do IPv6 natively without an additional package.
Big fan of Opnsense for the home gateway!
Can even run containers using kubelet :D
https://github.com/sonic-net/SONiC/blob/sonic_image_md_updat...
ansible-openwrt: https://github.com/gekmihesg/ansible-openwrt
/? terraform OpenWRT: https://www.google.com/search?q=terraform+openwrt
/? terraform Open vSwitch: https://www.google.com/search?q=open+vswitch+terraform
Open vSwitch supports OpenFlow: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_vSwitch
Open vSwitch > "Porting Open vSwitch to New Software or Hardware" https://docs.openvswitch.org/en/latest/topics/porting/