New Book: OPNsense Beginner to Professional

[andrewoliv]

Got this book from Apple iBooks about a week ago. Its an amazing resource and has become my goto source for anything OPNsource related.

Highly suggest it

Author:
Julio Cesar Bueno de Camargo

[WestCoaster]

Thanks for posting this, I'm in the process of switching from pfSense to OPNsense and would like a comprehensive manual to work through. There's tons of information in regards to pfSense, but have to dig a bit more to find info for OPNsense.

[somniture]

I've gone through it and it's pretty clearly targeted at beginners, as you'd expect from the title. Most of the content consists of walkthroughs of the installation and configuration that add a little detail to what's already in the documentation. A lot of the "learn more" references are to FreeBSD man pages, which seems a little bizarre to me because those are not beginner-friendly at all IMO. What it most definitely is not is a comprehensive manual.

The chapters on the CLI and API are really good, though. I've got a lot of experience and those had some valuable information.

I would say that the ebook is probably worth the price (~= 30USD) for a beginner. But an experienced person is not going to get that much out of it. I think that the $45 for the paperback is too steep regardless of your background.

[juliocbc]

Thank you guys! I tried my best to fit within 400+ pages the relevant content for OPNsense users. Actually, the original title wasn't so comprehensive as "beginners to professionals," but it is necessary to mind the publisher's demands (especially marketing ones).  ;)

[lilsense]

Thomas Krenn has a couple of nice books as well...

https://www.thomas-krenn.com/en/company/press/media-download.html