Simple External Dynamic List Toolkit

This is side project to create and manage external dynamic list which can be reference in policies on Palo Alto and Checkpoint firewalls.

This is written in Python using the Django framework.

Why bother?

Why not? I have worked on various application leveraging Flask (flask-restx); the development of flask-restx has stalled/slowed, so I wanted to challenge myself to learn a new framework.

The choice was between Django and FastAPI - I choose Django because I'm not sure of the long-term maintenance of FastAPI with all the mini-me spawns showing up.

I decided to create this EDL toolkit because:

1. The poll/blog tutorial is just not my style.
2. Speaking to some of my peers, I realized most want to leverage Palo Alto's EDL but are just using a text file on a webserver
3. Some think that MindMeld is a pain to maintain, and they don't want t pay for Autofocus

TLDR; Wanted to learn another Python web framework, Django > FastAPI, didn't want to create a poll/blog for my first Django project

Live Demo

Any data entered into the live demo will be deleted every 24 hours.

Demo Site	Username	Password
http://demo1.simpleedl.com/gui/	demouser1	bl3buS1tEnTEmEKT1n

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You can also support this project by buying me a coffee.

Quick Start

Development (No Docker)

# Clone repo
git clone https://github.com/jbhoorasingh/simple-edl.git

# Set up python environment
python -m venv venv
source ./venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirments.txt

# Migrate database - this will create a temp sqlite3 db
python manage.py makemigrations
python manage.py migrate

# create superuser
python manage.py createsuperuser

Environment File

.env

DJANGO_DEBUG=True
DJANGO_SECRET_KEY=KeKeDoYouLoveMe_NoIDont
DJANGO_ALLOWED_HOSTS="localhost,127.0.0.1"
DJANGO_TIME_ZONE=UTC
DJANGO_DB_ENGINE=django.db.backends.postgresql
DJANGO_DB_NAME=simple_edl
DJANGO_DB_USER=simple_edl
DJANGO_DB_PASSWORD=HelloW0rld2024YouShouldChangeThisPlzPlz
DJANGO_DB_HOST=db
DJANGO_DB_PORT=5432
CELERY_BROKER_URL=redis://redis:6379/0
CELERY_RESULT_BACKEND=redis://redis:6379/0

.env.db

Separating out Database so we can easily decouple

POSTGRES_USER=r_networking_ping # Change if desired. Has to match SQL_USER in .env
POSTGRES_PASSWORD=ChangeMePlease # Please change! Has to match SQL_USER in .env
POSTGRES_DB=r_networking_pingn # Change if desired. Has to match SQL_USER in .env

Development (Docker)

Docker Compose Up

docker-compose -f docker-compose.dev.yml up --build

Docker Compose Create Super User (Optional)

docker-compose -f docker-compose.dev.yml exec web python manage.py createsuperuser

Acknowledgements

Dockerize Django Guide [TODO] - https://blog.logrocket.com/dockerizing-django-app/