Netbox

Tracking IPs, networks, servers, and virtual machines manually in Excel and Confluence creates an airgap that prevents seamless automation. I shared our journey to bridge this gap during my talk at the 10th Ansible Meetup in Zurich. As we pushed for wider adoption of configuration management, we realized we needed a robust source of truth inventory, leading us to migrate to Netbox for IPAM and device management. Here is a breakdown of how Netbox and Ansible integrate, how context data is structured, and why we sometimes have to bypass modules to interact directly with the API. ...