Integrating Distributed Data Sources of Truth with Nautobot

Through this book, you have discovered that Nautobot is capable of modeling your network infrastructure out of the box, and also of being extended to adapt to many use cases not covered by default. However, even with all this potential, it is pretty common that many environments already have other data sources that contain relevant network intent data, and that data can’t be owned by Nautobot – such as for organizational boundaries or established processes. For example, you may already have a circuits database owned by the telco team or maybe an IPAM system owned by another network department, and you may need to keep them in use without changing their processes.

In these cases, we have to find ways to interact with all the required data sources to obtain the data that defines the network intent. This is the goal of this chapter.

In this chapter, we cover the following:

• Understanding distributed...