Managing and Administering Nautobot

Over the last few chapters, you learned how to install and configure Nautobot, something that started with Chapter 3, went on to learn how to start adding data in Nautobot in Chapter 5, and then learned all about extensibility in Chapter 6. Through those chapters, the majority of the focus was on using Nautobot, primarily in the UI, so there has been limited focus thus far on Nautobot from a platform administration perspective. We’ll shift gears in this chapter and delve into numerous settings of the Nautobot Config file. We’ll demonstrate how to enhance and secure a Nautobot deployment by focusing on platform administration tasks and features.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

• Using the Admin UI to set up users, groups, and role-based permissions
• Managing Nautobot settings to better fit your organization
• Developing familiarity with the Nautobot Server commands, and the Nautobot Shell
• Upgrading...