Welcome to NetBox Automation - Zero to Hero! In this workshop we will build a fully functioning intent-based network automation stack. While most vendors do a great job of showing you how to use their tool, network automation is a multi-tool adventure and there is lack of tutorials and documentation showing how everything fits together.
This workshop is intended to teach you the high-level concepts around intent-based networking, while also delivering you a fully functioning stack you can continue to experiment with. The workshop is split into sections covering different elements of the story. You should follow them sequentially.
- Managing Networks the Hard Way - A look at a "traditional" network management stack, and some of its drawbacks
- Introducing Intent-Based Network Automation - A brief introduction to the high-level concepts that we'll be building through the rest of the workshop.
- Source of Truth: NetBox - An introduction to NetBox, our Network Source of Truth that will drive our intent-based networking
- Discovery and Reconcilliation: Slurpit
- Monitoring: Icinga
- Configuration Assurance: Netpicker
- Automated Network Changes: Ansible