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

Learning about Nautobot APIs – REST, GraphQL, and Webhooks

In the realm of network automation, APIs are critical to enable two or more systems to programmatically interact with each other. APIs are how we can fetch data, make a change, or know when an event has occurred on a remote system. As a network source of truth and network automation platform, Nautobot has robust APIs to enable and power enterprise network automation architectures.

By understanding the APIs Nautobot has to offer, you’ll be able to integrate Nautobot into your network automation workflows. For example, you may want to change the status of a circuit or device in a given change window. Going one step further, you may want to pull all data on a given device to build a configuration for that device. On the other hand, when data is changed in Nautobot, you may want to automatically trigger an update on the network or notify a given team.

In this chapter, we’ll review various Nautobot APIs...