Using Jobs to populate data in Nautobot
In Chapter 13, we’ll highlight a Nautobot app called Design Builder (https://blog.networktocode.com/post/design-builder/). It is an app (that uses Nautobot Jobs) that highlights this use case and allows users to simplify adding data to Nautobot through codified network designs. The codified designs might be T-shirt size designs for small, medium, and large branch sites. The design can include every piece of data needed to onboard new sites to Nautobot, from devices and interfaces to IP addressing, VLANs, and circuits.
From a user experience perspective, if a user is trying to add a new device, rack, location, or something else, that can be codified in a Job or framework (such as Design Builder) so that there are minimal inputs in a Job form. Once a user submits the Job, all the data that’s needed for the new design is added to Nautobot. This helps significantly in growing organizations.
