Our team designed an internal automation tool to clone and transform firewall configurations for new data-centre environments, reducing manual policy migration effort and configuration risk.

Project challenge

Rebuild large firewall configurations for new sites while changing site-specific networks, objects, routes, and policies without introducing manual transcription errors.

Delivery

  • The team built configuration transformation logic for multi-vendor firewall environments.
  • The team automated network and object rewriting, policy updates, site-specific naming, and migration preparation.
  • The team added review-oriented output so engineers could validate generated changes before implementation.
  • The team used automation to support repeatable data-centre migration workflows rather than one-off configuration work.

Outcome

Firewall migration work became faster, more repeatable, and easier to validate, with less manual configuration handling during data-centre moves.

Technology and methods

Palo Alto Fortinet Python Configuration transformation Policy migration

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