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

+5 more

View More author details

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

Why subscribe?

22. Other Books You May Enjoy

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

Loading data into Nautobot

Once Nautobot is up and running, it’s time to start using it! However, Source of Truth is useless without data. Therefore, the first step is to populate Nautobot with data.

The data defines the intended state of the network and, independent of whether the data is taken from a running network or defined in advance, there are different methods to populate Nautobot with data, as follows:

GUI: Using the Nautobot graphical user interface (GUI) allows easy access to create objects. We will cover a few examples in this section, but more examples will come in Chapter 5.
REST API: Nautobot exposes a fully capable HTTP REST API to access data models. Examples and details will come in Chapter 8.
SDKs: A Python SDK (pynautobot) and a Go SDK (go-nautobot) are available to programmatically interact with the REST API. More info on these in Chapter 10.
Ansible collection: Similar to SDKs, there is an Ansible collection to interact with Nautobot...

The rest of the chapter is locked

You're reading from Network Automation with Nautobot Adopt a network source of truth and a data-driven approach to networking

Table of Contents (26) Chapters Close

Loading data into Nautobot

Unlock this book and the full library FREE for 7 days

Authors (9)

Personalised recommendations for you

Table of Contents (26) Chapters