Persist changes and/or tooling

[BeyondEvil]

So, it seems an "issue" that Ubiquiti doesn't seem interested in helping solve is supporting out-of-band changes that survives factory resets or firmware upgrades.

I was thinking we take a concept out of the Kubernetes playbook called (the) operator pattern.

The tl;dr is that you have an operator (that runs externally to the Gateway/Router, for example on a Raspberry PI) that is responsible for managing the state.

This would enable managing the state with tools like Terraform/OpenTofu and other Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools.

This is particularly valuable for people managing multiple deployments.

Would the repository maintainer(s) be interested in collaborating around such a solution?

[bslatyer]

Hey @BeyondEvil,

100% - we're open to anything :)

[BeyondEvil]

If you think it's viable and a good idea, I'll do some arch/design work over the xmas/new year holiday.

Initial idea, for tooling at least, is to have container orchestration.

[bslatyer]

Sounds good!