You're reading from Network Automation with Nautobot Adopt a network source of truth and a data-driven approach to networking

Product type Paperback

Published in May 2024

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781837637867

Length 816 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Python

Tools

Ansible

Concepts

Network Automation

Authors (9):

Ken Celenza

John Anderson

Gary Snider

Jason Edelman

Brad Haas

Glenn Matthews

Bryan Culver

Christian Adell

Josh VanDeraa

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Table of Contents (26) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1: Introduction to Source of Truth and Nautobot

2. Chapter 1: Introduction to Nautobot FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Nautobot Data Models

4. Part 2: Getting Started with Nautobot

5. Chapter 3: Installing and Deploying Nautobot

6. Chapter 4: Understanding the User Interface and Bootstrapping Nautobot

7. Chapter 5: Configuring Nautobot Core Data Models

8. Chapter 6: Using Nautobot’s Extensibility Features

9. Chapter 7: Managing and Administering Nautobot

10. Part 3: Network Automation with Nautobot

11. Chapter 8: Learning about Nautobot APIs – REST, GraphQL, and Webhooks

12. Chapter 9: Understanding Nautobot Integrations for NetDevOps Pipelines

13. Chapter 10: Embracing Infrastructure as Code with Nautobot, Git, and Ansible

14. Chapter 11: Automating Networks with Nautobot Jobs

15. Chapter 12: Data-Driven Network Automation Architecture

16. Part 4: Nautobot Apps

17. Chapter 13: Learning about the Nautobot App Ecosystem

18. Chapter 14: Intro to Nautobot App Development

19. Chapter 15: Building Nautobot Data Models

20. Chapter 16: Automating with Nautobot Apps

21. Index

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Appendix 1: Nautobot Architecture

1. Appendix 2: Integrating Distributed Data Sources of Truth with Nautobot

2. Appendix 3: Performing Config Compliance and Remediation with Nautobot

Installing Nautobot

Nautobot can be installed on a multitude of technologies ranging from bare-metal servers, virtual machines, and containers to cloud-native environments. Our focus in this chapter is a traditional installation on a Linux virtual machine (Ubuntu Server 20.04), installing Nautobot and its required dependencies including a local PostgreSQL database and a Redis in-memory data store used by the task queue(s).

Note

The Nautobot application can run on any Linux distribution that satisfies its requirements and it’s regularly tested with the most recent versions of Ubuntu.

This chapter is focused on getting Nautobot up and running as fast as possible so you can experience all that it has to offer. Production considerations and overall Nautobot system administration are reviewed in more detail in Chapter 6.

There are other available references to spin up a Nautobot application using containers:

Nautobot Lab is an all-in-one Docker container that...

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