feat(vyos): add SSH key and password bootstrap via SOPS #59
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Solve the VyOS bootstrapping problem where ansible couldn't connect after initial USB-based installation because no SSH key was configured. Changes: - Add SOPS-encrypted ssh.sops.yaml with SSH key pair and console password - Modify provision-usb.py to inject SSH credentials into gateway.conf - Add ansible/init.sh to extract SSH private key to ~/.ssh/vyos-gateway - Update ansible inventory to use the new default key path The bootstrap flow is now: 1. provision-usb.py injects SSH public key + password into config 2. VyOS is installed with working SSH access from the start 3. Operators run init.sh once to get the private key for ansible 🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code) Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Move description from next-hop block to route block level. VyOS circinus schema only allows description at the route level, not nested under next-hop. The incorrect placement caused VyOS to silently ignore the entire protocols static section during config load. 🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code) Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code) Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Summary
ssh.sops.yamlcontaining SSH key pair and console password for VyOS gatewayprovision-usb.pyto inject SSH credentials intogateway.confat USB creation timeansible/init.shscript to extract SSH private key to~/.ssh/vyos-gatewayThis solves the bootstrapping chicken-and-egg problem where ansible couldn't connect to VyOS after initial USB-based installation because no SSH key was configured.
New Bootstrap Flow
provision-usb.pyreads credentials fromssh.sops.yamland injects them into the config on USB./init.shonce locally to extract the private key for ansibleTest plan
render-config-boot.shstill works for containerlab tests🤖 Generated with Claude Code