Using NetBox for Ansible Source of Truth
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The goal of this blog is to show some of the capabilities that make NetBox a terrific tool and will be using NetBox as your network Source of Truth for automation!

I’ve recently been investigating doing some automated zero touch deployment stuff in my lab.

I have PXE boot in my lab but I feel like I’m under utilizing it. I was thinking about exploring using ansible with netbox as right now I only use netbox as a glorified wiki.

I’m just curious if anyone here has zero touch deployment and has any interesting takes on what it is good for and what it isn’t good for (I would really like to hear about some edge cases).

Thanks!

  • netburnr@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    8 months ago

    Base os install ad a template in your hypervisor. Ansible playbook with a task to spin up the VM, another task to setup network and required packages. Then other playbooks for the software/services setup.