Transform the way your network teams think about and deploy enterprise network automation through the power of Nautobot's open-source platform
Key Features
- Learn how documenting your network in Nautobot can accelerate your network automation journey
- Apply NetDevOps to your network by leveraging Nautobot as a network source of truth
- Minimize tool sprawl by extending, using, or building Nautobot Apps
- Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free PDF eBook
Book Description
Nautobot enables network teams to build a scalable and extensible network source of truth that provides a foundation to power any network automation stack. With the help of this guide, you'll learn how to deploy, manage, and integrate Nautobot as a source of truth and network automation platform. As you progress, you'll learn what a network source of truth is, the relationship between data and network automation, dive into network data models, and get a broad understanding of Nautobot along with its robust features that allow maximum flexibility. You'll also learn how to construct a single source of truth with Nautobot while diving into its programmatic APIs including REST APIs, GraphQL, webhooks, and Nautobot JobHooks. Going one step further, you delve into building custom data models and custom Apps for Nautobot and experience its extensibility and powerful developer API. In the last part of this book, you'll get to see how you can deploy configuration compliance and automated remediation once Nautobot is deployed as a network source of truth. By the end of this book, you'll be able to design and manage Nautobot as a network source of truth, understand its key features, and extend Nautobot by creating custom data models and apps that suit your network and your team.
What you will learn
- Understand network sources of truth and the role it plays in network automation architecture
- Gain an understanding of Nautobot as a network source and network automation platform
- Convert Python scripts to enable self-service Nautobot Jobs
- Understand how YAML files in Git and easily be integrated into Nautobot
- Get to grips with the NetDevOps ecosystem around Nautobot and its App ecosystem
- Delve into popular Nautobot Apps including Single Source of Truth and Golden Config
Who this book is for
This book is for network engineers, network automation engineers, but also software engineers looking to support their network teams by to building custom Nautobot Apps. A basic understanding of networking, e.g. CCNA, along with the fundamentals of Linux, Python, Jinja2, YAML, and JSON, are needed to get the most out of this book.
