Exploring Nautobot’s settings
Nautobot is a highly customizable application that can be tailored to the requirements of small businesses and enterprises alike. In this section, we are going to highlight several settings that are common to modify to tailor a Nautobot deployment for any given environment.
Understanding setting precedence
Unless otherwise noted, all settings covered in this section can be set in the nautobot_config.py
file we’ve been working with since Chapter 3. As mentioned earlier in this chapter, some settings can be set using the Admin UI (also covered in this section). Some settings can also be configured by environment variables.
Note
The version-specific documentation is the best place to learn how to specify these settings. Please check out the Nautobot documentation provided with your installation or online, and be sure to make sure you reference the specific version you have installed.
Here are some rules of thumb on precedence...