best approach to do a cloud-install?

[wodec]

Hi all,


I'm currently wondering what would be the best and most secure approach to do a new install in a cloud-environment?

So basically I can have a VM where opnsense is installed, but since it's a cloud environment, the only thing I have is a console access to the VM.

Network-wise, after install, I can only reach the VM from the WAN-side, where the GUI is blocked by default.

I want to get to the situation where I can use a VPN to connect to the firewall and then access the GUI over that VPN.
However, I first need to get to the GUI before being able to configure a VPN, chicken or the egg problem

So how would you approach something like this?

If I have it correctly, enabling SSH access via the console is not possible, adding firewall-rules to temporarily enable GUI access over the WAN is not possible via the console, ...

How do others tackle this?

Thanks for any input you can give here!

[zan]

Login from console then hit 8 to access the shell, then disable the firewall with "pfctl -d".
Once you can login through the GUI the first thing to do is disable the firewall again (Firewall->Settings->Advanced->Disable all packet filtering)
You can always enable it again once you are done with your initial setup.