English | 2024 | PDF | 110 MB | 815 Pages
by Jason Edelman, Glenn Matthews, Josh Vanderaa
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, 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.
What you will learn
- Understand network sources of truth and the role they play in network automation architecture
- Gain an understanding of Nautobot as a network source and a network automation platform
- Convert Python scripts to enable self-service Nautobot Jobs
- Understand how YAML files in Git can be easily 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, and
software engineers looking to support their network teams by building
custom Nautobot Apps. A basic understanding of networking (e.g. CCNA)
and knowledge of the fundamentals of Linux, Python programming, Jinja2,
YAML, and JSON are needed to get the most out of this book.
Table of Contents
- Introduction to Nautobot
- Nautobot Data Models
- Installing and Deploying Nautobot
- Understanding the User Interface and Bootstrapping Nautobot
- Configuring Nautobot Core Data Models
- Using Nautobot's Extensibility Features
- Managing and Administering Nautobot
- Learning about Nautobot APIs - REST, GraphQL, and Webhooks
- Understanding Nautobot Integrations for NetDevOps Pipelines
- Embracing Infrastructure as Code with Nautobot, Git, and Ansible
- Automating Networks with Nautobot Jobs
- Data-Driven Network Automation Architecture
- Learning about the Nautobot App Ecosystem
- Intro to Nautobot App Development
- Building Nautobot Data Models
- Automating with Nautobot Apps
- Appendix 1: Nautobot Architecture
- Appendix 2: Integrating Distributed Data Sources of Truth with Nautobot
- Appendix 3: Performing Config Compliance and Remediation with Nautobot
ISBNs: 1837637865, 9781837637867, 978-1837637867, B0CWB6NMXM
