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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

Building an App around existing data models

For this section, let’s say that you’ve decided that, for now, modeling your ACL configuration via config contexts is the way to go and, therefore, you don’t need to develop a new set of data models at this time. However, you find the existing generic UI and API presented by config contexts to be somewhat lacking and want some ACL-specific presentation of the data. This is a case where it makes sense to develop your own Nautobot App to extend the UI and REST API of Nautobot. We’ll call this app nautobot_ip_acls.

This chapter does not cover in detail all of the prerequisite steps of setting up a Nautobot App development environment and creating a minimal template of your App—for that information, please refer back to Chapter 14—but to recap, here are the basic steps on a freshly initialized DigitalOcean Droplet:

root@nautobot-app-dev:~# sudo apt install curl software-properties-commonroot@nautobot...

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