Network to Code Presents at Networking Field Day 24

Network to Code Nautobot Overview

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Nautobot is a Network Source of Truth and Network Automation Platform. This session introduces Nautobot to the world reviewing its key use cases how it is used as a Flexible Source of Truth for Networking, Extensible Data Platform for Network Automation, and Platform for Network Automation.

Personnel: Jason Edelman

Network to Code Source of Truth Extensibility with Nautobot

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Extensibility in Nautobot empowers uses to ensure their network design is able to be seamlessly stored in Nautobot. This session shows how that is possible through features such as user-defined relationships, custom fields on all models, and its plugin system.

Personnel: John Anderson

Network to Code Nautobot Data Quality & Visibility

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Ensuring that good and clean data is being stored in a Source of Truth is a hard problem to solve. This session explores using Nautobot Data Validation and Nautobot’s native Git integration to see how they ensure all data is good data while being able to visualize data trends over time in tools like Grafana.

Personnel: Damien Garros, John Anderson

Network to Code Exploring Nautobot’s GraphQL Integration

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If you were to combine REST APIs with database query abilities, you would get GraphQL. GraphQL allows users to perform queries over an API that drastically simplify accessing data. This session highlights the value of Nautobot’s GraphQL implementation.

Personnel: Damien Garros

Network to Code ChatOps for Network Automation with Nautobot

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ChatOps enables self-service in a methodical and sane fashion. Imagine being able to perform basic operations through group chat platforms such as Slack, MS Teams, Webex Teams, and Mattermost? This session highlights how the Nautobot ChatOps App can reduce the number of change tickets opened by allowing Nautobot to do data lookups and perform basic operations.

Personnel: Tim Schreyack

Network to Code How Nautobot Enables Golden Configuration

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Infrastructure as Code (IaC) continues to gain momentum throughout the industry. In this session, the Nautobot Golden Configuration App is introduced. You’ll learn how you can integrate existing IaC toolchains and workflows that include Git-versioned configuration backups and Jinja2 templates directly with Nautobot. Additionally, you will see how Golden Configuration has the ability to do backups, generate configurations, and perform configuration compliance.

Personnel: Ken Celenza