Performing Config Compliance and Remediation with Nautobot

If you’ve made it this far, you’ve seen countless references to Nautobot Golden Config throughout the book. That’s because it is the most widely used app in the Nautobot ecosystem. The name Golden Config doesn’t even do it justice because it does more than just define what a golden config is—Nautobot Golden Config enables backups, generates configurations, deploys configurations, performs compliance, and even performs remediation. It does all this in open source, providing maximum flexibility using popular Python libraries such as Netmiko, NAPALM, and Nornir.

This appendix is a short overview of Golden Config so that you can understand where and how it can be used in your infrastructure.

Please note that while this appendix explains how to do certain things and shows screenshots, it is not meant to be followed as a step-by-step guide. Golden Config is a product on its own and we’...