Nautobot is a network automation platform and source-of-truth system designed to model, manage, and automate network infrastructure.
It’s built on Django and provides a flexible data model, APIs, and an extensible plugin ecosystem for integrating with automation workflows and external systems.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Acts as a Network Source of Truth, modelling devices, IP addresses, circuits, racks, and other infrastructure components in a centralised system.
- Highly flexible data model with support for custom fields, user-defined relationships, and validation rules.
- Extensible plugin (app) framework for building custom network automation applications and extending core functionality.
- Comprehensive APIs including REST and GraphQL for integration with automation tools and external systems.
- Native Git integration for loading structured data such as YAML configuration contexts.
- Supports automation workflows via webhooks, integrations, and ecosystem tools like Ansible and Python SDKs.
- Built-in features such as authentication, permissions, change logging, and auditing to support production environments.
- Designed as a web application using Django with support for PostgreSQL or MySQL databases.
Website: github.com/nautobot/nautobot
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Developer: Network to Code
License: Apache License 2.0
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