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NetBox Ansible Collection: Device Types

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A device type is the next piece in the NetBox Device onboarding requirements. The device type corresponds to the model number of the hardware (or virtual mac...

NetBox Ansible Collection: Device Roles

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A device role is aptly named, the role of the device. This is likely to be something that is meaningful to your organization and could change. For example yo...

NetBox Ansible Collection: Platforms

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Platforms are an optional item when adding devices into NetBox. The platform is the OS that you are going to be using. Most often this is used to help identi...

NetBox Ansible Collection: Manufacturers

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Adding your manufacturers via code is the easy way to get started with your NetBox devices. Immediately after adding Sites, the next thing to get going when ...

NetBox Ansible Collection: Site Module

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This post dives into the NetBox Ansible Content Collection module to create/update a Site. As I start into this series on looking at the modules that create/...

NetBox Ansible Collection: Lookup Plugin

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The NetBox lookup plugin is to get information out of NetBox for use within Ansible. This uses pynetbox to query the NetBox API for the information requested...

NetBox Ansible Collection: Inventory - Starting Out

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The documentation can be found on ReadTheDocs. This is going to be starting out with the basics of the plugin and getting some sample output and to show how ...