richbibby/ipf-netbox

code for IP Fabric and NetBox talk at Cisco Live Amsterdam 2023

ipf-netbox

Code for IP Fabric and NetBox talk at Cisco Live Amsterdam 2023.

The talk demo's the IP Fabric-NetBox plugin to import device data into NetBox, using the NetBox staging functionality. Once the device data has been imported then the code in this repo demonstrates the following:

• NetBox as a dynamic inventory source for Ansible
• Ansible playbook to extract device data from NetBox and render Cisco and Juniper configuration files using Jinja templates

Tested on Python Version: 3.10.6

Getting Started

1. Clone Git repo and change into ipf-netbox directory

git clone https://github.com/richbibby/ipf-netbox.git
cd ipf-netbox

2. Create and activate Python 3 virtual environment

python3 -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate

3. Set environment variables for NetBox API token and URL

export NETBOX_TOKEN=<token>
export NETBOX_API=<https://url> 

4. Install required Python packages

pip install -r requirements.txt

5. Check Ansible dynamic inventory is working

ansible-inventory --list -i netbox_inv.yml

6. Run playbook to generate configs

ansible-playbook generate_config.yml

7. Deactivate virtual environment

deactivate