Backing up Firepower FDM to the Cloud via Ansible
My criticism of Cisco's Firepower product is fairly well-published. However, to their credit Cisco seems to be finally steering the product in the right direction with the continued development of their Firepower Device Management alternative for on-box management, allowing customers to abandon the dismal FMC. With the breakaway from a centralized controller though, users now need to revert to managing individual resources on their appliance(s) such as firewall policies, configuration backups, etc. This guide shows one elegant way to maintain configuration backups of a fleet of FDM appliances using a simple, flexible Ansible playbook.