wg-meta
An approach to add metadata to the main wireguard config, written in Perl.
Highlights
- Compatible with your existing setup (no configuration changes needed).
- A CLI interface with abilities to set, enable, disable and apply your wireguard config(s).
- A fancy show output which combines the meta-data, running-config and static-configs
- Modular structure: The whole parser is independent of the CLI module - and can be used as a standalone library.
- The config parser/writer and as well as the
wg show dump
parser are independent too. For more info, please refer to the respective POD. - No external dependencies, runs on plain Perl (>=v5.22)!
Installation
Build from source
./autoreconf --install
./configure
make test
make install
dpkg
package
Using sudo dpkg -i wg-meta_X.X.X.deb
From dist-tar
tar xvf wg-meta-X.X.X.tar.gz
cd wg-meta-X.X.X
make test
make install
Environment variables
WIREGUARD_HOME
: Directory containing the Wireguard configuration -> Make sure the path ends with a/
.IS_TESTING
: When defined, it has the following effects:Commands::Set|Enable|Disable
omits the header of the generated configuration files.
WG_NO_COLOR
: If defined, the show command does not prettify the output with colors.
Usage
Intended to use as command wrapper for the wg show
and wg set
commands. Support for wg-quick
is enabled by default.
Please note that all attributes have to be specified in the wg set
syntax, which means AllowedIPs becomes
allowed-ips and so on.
sudo wg-meta show
# output
interface: wg0
ListenPort: 51888
+peer: WG_0_PEER_A_PUBLIC_KEY
#+Name: testero
#+Alias: IPv6_only1
AllowedIPs: fdc9:281f:04d7:9ee9::1/128
endpoint: 147.86.207.49:10400 latest-handshake: >month ago transfer-rx: 0.26 MiB transfer-tx: 1.36 MiB
# Access using peer
sudo wg-meta set wg0 peer +qz742hzxD3E5z5QF7VOvleVS1onavQpXBK3NdTh40g= name Fancy_meta_name
# Access using alias
sudo wg-meta set wg0 some_alias description "Some Desc"
# Disable peer
sudo wg-meta disable wg0 some_alias
# Enable peer
sudo wg-meta enable wg0 +qz742hzxD3E5z5QF7VOvleVS1onavQpXBK3NdTh40g=
# Apply config
sudo wg-meta apply wg0
Under the hood
The main advantage is that this tool is not dependent on any other storage, metadata is stored inside the corresponding
wgXX.conf
file (Comments prefixed with #+
):
[Interface]
#+Alias = some_alias
#+Description = Some Desc
Address = 10.0.0.7/24
ListenPort = 6666
PrivateKey = WEkEJW3b4TDmRvN+G+K9elzq52/djAXT+LAB6BSEUmM=
[Peer]
#+Name = Fancy_meta_name
PublicKey = +qz742hzxD3E5z5QF7VOvleVS1onavQpXBK3NdTh40g=
AllowedIPs = 0.0.0.0/0
Endpoint = wg.example.com