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Network Automation with Nautobot. Adopt a network source of truth and a data-driven approach to networking

Network Automation with Nautobot. Adopt a network source of truth and a data-driven approach to networking

Jason Edelman, Glenn Matthews, Josh VanDeraa, Ken Celenza, Christian Adell, Brad Haas, Bryan Culver, John Anderson, Gary Snider, Mike Bushong

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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, and network data models. You’ll also gain a broad understanding of Nautobot and its robust features that allow maximum flexibility. A dedicated section will show you how to construct a single source of truth with Nautobot and help you explore its programmatic APIs, including REST APIs, GraphQL, webhooks, and Nautobot Job Hooks. Later, you’ll develop 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 discover how to 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.
  • 1. Introduction to Nautobot
  • 2. Nautobot Data Models
  • 3. Installing and Deploying Nautobot
  • 4. Understanding the User Interface and Bootstrapping Nautobot
  • 5. Configuring Nautobot Core Data Models
  • 6. Using Nautobot's Extensibility Features
  • 7. Managing and Administering Nautobot
  • 8. Learning about Nautobot APIs – REST, GraphQL, and Webhooks
  • 9. Understanding Nautobot Integrations for NetDevOps Pipelines
  • 10. Embracing Infrastructure as Code with Nautobot, Git, and Ansible
  • 11. Automating Networks with Nautobot Jobs
  • 12. Data-Driven Network Automation Architecture
  • 13. Learning about the Nautobot App Ecosystem
  • 14. Introduction to Nautobot App Development
  • 15. Building Nautobot Data Models
  • 16. Automating with Nautobot Apps
  • 17. Appendix 1: Nautobot Architecture
  • 18. Appendix 2: Integrating Distributed Data Sources of Truth with Nautobot
  • 19. Appendix 3: Performing Config Compliance and Remediation with Nautobot
  • Title: Network Automation with Nautobot. Adopt a network source of truth and a data-driven approach to networking
  • Author: Jason Edelman, Glenn Matthews, Josh VanDeraa, Ken Celenza, Christian Adell, Brad Haas, Bryan Culver, John Anderson, Gary Snider, Mike Bushong
  • Original title: Network Automation with Nautobot. Adopt a network source of truth and a data-driven approach to networking
  • ISBN: 9781837634514, 9781837634514
  • Date of issue: 2024-05-28
  • Format: Ebook
  • Item ID: e_3wm0
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing