Exploring the Nautobot SSoT framework

Nautobot is used as the primary network source of truth in many network environments. But in most of them, other data sources are in use simultaneously. These data sources may be systems of record or systems that consume Nautobot’s data within well-established business operational workflows, and replacing them may not be a top priority. For these cases, Nautobot has a SSoT framework (https://docs.nautobot.com/projects/ssot/en/latest/) that allows the development of integration with external systems to retrieve data, compare it with existing data, and finally perform the necessary operations: create, update, or delete the data to establish Nautobot as the aggregated source of truth. This doesn’t dictate that Nautobot has to be the SoR of all the data, just the place where the data converges.

Pro tip

If Nautobot needs to import data from a source system but doesn’t require continuous synchronization, it doesn’t make...