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Combining Netbox and Ansible (feddit.org)
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I'm new to netbox and as far as I can tell there are two ways to combine Netbox with ansible.

  • Automate network and Netbox with ansible. A playbook would configure a switch port and then use the Netbox ansible collection to modify Netbox to reflect the change. All changes go through Ansible.
  • Use Netbox as the data source for ansible. A playbook pulls the switch configuration from Netbox and applies it to the switch using ansible. All changes go through Netbox.

What would be preferred? Both solve the Problem of having to change everything twice.

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[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 6 points 2 weeks ago

The latter. Ansible isn't for storing configs, it's for applying them.